One of the latest books we have indexed at Southwest Humanities is the forthcoming work, Black Enlightenment, by Surya Parekh (Binghamton University), which will be published in August by Duke University Press. Parekh’s book examines the Enlightenment from the perspective of the Black subject. This is undertaken through analyses of the work of Black writers such as Ignatius Sancho, Francis Williams, and Phillis Wheatley alongside that of their white contemporaries Immanuel Kant and David Hume. By examining the anxieties around race in the work of these white Enlightenment thinkers and pointing up the significant contribution of Black writers, Parekh promotes a reevaluation of the Enlightenment canon and encourages new understandings of Black subjectivity in relation to hegemonic whiteness as well as of topics like freedom, slavery, and subjectivity in general. For more information about Black Enlightenment, please take a look at the publisher’s website here.
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