Abstract
Drawing on African diasporic, feminist, and decolonial streams of thought, this essay
addresses gendered and racialized biases, gaps, and silences that depreciate Black
women’s epistemological agency. The essay examines the significance of a proliferation
of recent publications, including translations, that are bringing the intellectual
contributions of Black women in the Americas to new audiences. This growing trend,
which resonates with the objectives of #CiteBlackWomen, forms an integral part of a
more comprehensive project seeking to reconstitute knowledge under conditions that
break away from the prevailing cognitive empire. The Western cultural narratives,
myths, and sleights of hand buttressing this regime inflict an epistemological violence
that harms Black women.
addresses gendered and racialized biases, gaps, and silences that depreciate Black
women’s epistemological agency. The essay examines the significance of a proliferation
of recent publications, including translations, that are bringing the intellectual
contributions of Black women in the Americas to new audiences. This growing trend,
which resonates with the objectives of #CiteBlackWomen, forms an integral part of a
more comprehensive project seeking to reconstitute knowledge under conditions that
break away from the prevailing cognitive empire. The Western cultural narratives,
myths, and sleights of hand buttressing this regime inflict an epistemological violence
that harms Black women.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 182-190 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Cultural Anthropology |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - May 2022 |