RELATED TERMS: Afrofuturism; Afro-Pessimism; Critical Race Theory; Whiteness Studies Writing in 2020, Dhanveer Singh Brar and Ashwani Sharma contend that, “In a manner similar to ‘French’ post-structuralism in the 1970s and 1980s, U.S. Black Critical Thought offers an urgently needed – if not always satisfactory – grammar to address the racial faultlines of UK knowledgeContinue reading “Black Studies”
Category Archives: Design and Justice
Critical Race Theory
RELATED TERMS: Afrofuturism; Afro-Pessimism; Black Studies; Intersectionality Critical race theory, as a movement, is a collection of activists and scholars engaged in studying and transforming the relationship among race, racism and power. While traditional civil rights discourse stresses incrementalism and gradual progress, by contrast critical race theory questions the very foundations of the liberal order,Continue reading “Critical Race Theory”
Whiteness Studies
RELATED TERMS: Black Studies; Intersectionality; Native Studies Use for: Critical Whiteness Studies Kenan Malik (2022) discusses the work of American historian Tyler Stovall, particularly his final book, White Freedom, a book, Malik says, that while demonstrating the significance of his work also exhibits the confusions that plague contemporary thinking about race. For Stovall, liberty andContinue reading “Whiteness Studies”
Afro-Pessimism
RELATED TERMS: Afrofuturism; Black Studies; Critical Race Theory; Intersectionality; Identity Politics; David Marriott (2021: viii) proposes that the work of Afro-pessimism has an extreme, audacious place in the history of Black Studies. The value for Marriott is that Afro-pessimism allowed him to rediscover what is for him the most exacting question: what is blackness? Furthermore,Continue reading “Afro-Pessimism”
Intersectionality
RELATED TERMS: Afrofuturism; Afro-Pessimism; Critical Race Theory; Identity Politics; Whiteness Studies Beginning in the 1970s and continuing through the 1980s, critical legal scholars, such as Richard Delgado, Patricia Williams, Mari Matsuda and Alan Freeman, began publishing work that developed the discourse around race, power and law. Together, they advanced the idea that the law, ratherContinue reading “Intersectionality”
Afrofuturism
RELATED TERMS: Afro-Pessimism; Black Studies; Critical Race Theory; Intersectionality; Identity Politics Afrofuturism has been defined as a cultural aesthetic that combines science-fiction, history and fantasy. It aims to connect those from the black diaspora with their forgotten African ancestry (Tate, No Date). ‘The Comet,’ a short story by W. E. B. DuBois that represents DuBois’ forayContinue reading “Afrofuturism”
Global Challenges – Learning
RELATED TERMS: Global Challenges; Wicked Problems – Wicked Challenges According to Nicholas Maxwell (2021), humanity is confronted by two great challenges of learning: learning about the universe; and about ourselves and other living things as a part of the universe; and learning how to create civilisation. The first challenge, Maxwell contends, has been addressed by modernContinue reading “Global Challenges – Learning”
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