On Blackness, Liveliness, and What It Means to Be Human : Toward Black Specificity in Higher Education
Saved in:
| Title: | On Blackness, Liveliness, and What It Means to Be Human : Toward Black Specificity in Higher Education |
|---|---|
| Description: | Develops a theoretical and methodological focus on Blackness to rethink ideas about humanity underpinning the field of student development.Winner of the 2025 Outstanding Book Award presented by the Division B of the American Educational Research Association In'No Humans Involved: An Open Letter to My Colleagues,'Jamaican writer and theorist Sylvia Wynter critiques the social and human sciences for perpetuating social hierarchies, particularly through the Western humanist framing of'Man'as the universal representation of humanity. Human development theories revolve around this concept, necessitating acquiescence to the category Man to claim humanity. But Blackness complicates and unsettles these terms in ways the fields of higher education and educational research are in many ways just beginning to confront.On Blackness, Liveliness, and What It Means to Be Human extends Wynter's critique to human development and academic knowledge production, arguing that Black specificity can create new possibilities for Black being. Wilson Kwamogi Okello closely examines holistic development theory, aiming not to reform but to reimagine the'self'it presupposes. Taking what he describes as a multimodal and multisensory approach, Okello engages a chorus of writers, thinkers, and cultural workers-Baldwin, Bambara, Brand, Hartman, Lorde, Sharpe, Spillers, Wilderson, and more-to reframe Blackness as a social, political, and historical matrix, going beyond the study of Black experiences, biology, or culture. Punctuated throughout by stunning images from artist Mikael Owunna's'Infinite Essence'series, the book proposes and enacts a methodological attunement to Blackness that can guide theory, policy, and practice toward an alternative praxis for the benefit of Black living. |
| Authors: | Wilson Kwamogi Okello |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Black people--Education (Higher)--Philosophy, African Americans--Education (Higher)--Philosophy, African Americans--Race identity, Humanism, Black people--Race identity |
| Categories: | EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher, EDUCATION / Counseling / Academic Development, EDUCATION / Student Life & Student Affairs, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global) |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| FullText | Links: – Type: ebook-pdf – Type: ebook-epub Text: Availability: 0 |
|---|---|
| Header | DbId: nlebk DbLabel: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) An: 3867296 RelevancyScore: 1123 AccessLevel: 6 PubType: eBook PubTypeId: ebook PreciseRelevancyScore: 1122.83581542969 |
| IllustrationInfo | |
| ImageInfo | – Size: thumb Target: https://rps2images.ebscohost.com/rpsweb/othumb?id=NL$3867296$PDF&s=r – Size: medium Target: https://rps2images.ebscohost.com/rpsweb/othumb?id=NL$3867296$PDF&s=d |
| Items | – Name: Title Label: Title Group: Ti Data: On Blackness, Liveliness, and What It Means to Be Human : Toward Black Specificity in Higher Education – Name: Abstract Label: Description Group: Ab Data: Develops a theoretical and methodological focus on Blackness to rethink ideas about humanity underpinning the field of student development.Winner of the 2025 Outstanding Book Award presented by the Division B of the American Educational Research Association In'No Humans Involved: An Open Letter to My Colleagues,'Jamaican writer and theorist Sylvia Wynter critiques the social and human sciences for perpetuating social hierarchies, particularly through the Western humanist framing of'Man'as the universal representation of humanity. Human development theories revolve around this concept, necessitating acquiescence to the category Man to claim humanity. But Blackness complicates and unsettles these terms in ways the fields of higher education and educational research are in many ways just beginning to confront.On Blackness, Liveliness, and What It Means to Be Human extends Wynter's critique to human development and academic knowledge production, arguing that Black specificity can create new possibilities for Black being. Wilson Kwamogi Okello closely examines holistic development theory, aiming not to reform but to reimagine the'self'it presupposes. Taking what he describes as a multimodal and multisensory approach, Okello engages a chorus of writers, thinkers, and cultural workers-Baldwin, Bambara, Brand, Hartman, Lorde, Sharpe, Spillers, Wilderson, and more-to reframe Blackness as a social, political, and historical matrix, going beyond the study of Black experiences, biology, or culture. Punctuated throughout by stunning images from artist Mikael Owunna's'Infinite Essence'series, the book proposes and enacts a methodological attunement to Blackness that can guide theory, policy, and practice toward an alternative praxis for the benefit of Black living. – Name: Author Label: Authors Group: Au Data: <searchLink fieldCode="AR" term="%22Wilson+Kwamogi+Okello%22">Wilson Kwamogi Okello</searchLink> – Name: TypePub Label: Resource Type Group: TypPub Data: eBook. – Name: Subject Label: Subjects Group: Su Data: <searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22Black+people--Education+%28Higher%29--Philosophy%22">Black people--Education (Higher)--Philosophy</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22African+Americans--Education+%28Higher%29--Philosophy%22">African Americans--Education (Higher)--Philosophy</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22African+Americans--Race+identity%22">African Americans--Race identity</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22Humanism%22">Humanism</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22Black+people--Race+identity%22">Black people--Race identity</searchLink> – Name: SubjectBISAC Label: Categories Group: Su Data: <searchLink fieldCode="ZK" term="%22EDUCATION+%2F+Schools+%2F+Levels+%2F+Higher%22">EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="ZK" term="%22EDUCATION+%2F+Counseling+%2F+Academic+Development%22">EDUCATION / Counseling / Academic Development</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="ZK" term="%22EDUCATION+%2F+Student+Life+%26+Student+Affairs%22">EDUCATION / Student Life & Student Affairs</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="ZK" term="%22EDUCATION+%2F+Philosophy%2C+Theory+%26+Social+Aspects%22">EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="ZK" term="%22SOCIAL+SCIENCE+%2F+Black+Studies+%28Global%29%22">SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global)</searchLink> |
| PLink | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=nlebk&AN=3867296 |
| RecordInfo | BibRecord: BibEntity: Classifications: – Code: 305.8960071173 Scheme: ddc Type: prePub Languages: – Code: eng Text: English Subjects: – SubjectFull: Black people--Education (Higher)--Philosophy Type: general – SubjectFull: African Americans--Education (Higher)--Philosophy Type: general – SubjectFull: African Americans--Race identity Type: general – SubjectFull: Humanism Type: general – SubjectFull: Black people--Race identity Type: general Titles: – TitleFull: On Blackness, Liveliness, and What It Means to Be Human : Toward Black Specificity in Higher Education Type: main BibRelationships: HasContributorRelationships: – PersonEntity: Name: NameFull: Wilson Kwamogi Okello – PersonEntity: Name: NameFull: Wilson Kwamogi Okello IsPartOfRelationships: – BibEntity: Dates: – D: 01 M: 01 Type: published Y: 2024 – D: 04 M: 10 Type: profile Y: 2024 Identifiers: – Type: isbn-print Value: 9781438499642 – Type: isbn-print Value: 9781438499659 – Type: isbn-electronic Value: 9781438499666 Titles: – TitleFull: On Blackness, Liveliness, and What It Means to Be Human : Toward Black Specificity in Higher Education Type: main |
| ResultId | 1 |
