Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition (Blacks in the Diaspora)

Against the lethargy and despair of the contemporary Anglophone Caribbean experience, Aaron Kamugisha gives a powerful argument for advancing Caribbean radical thought as an answer to the conundrums of the present. Beyond Coloniality is an extended meditation on Caribbean thought and freedom at the beginning of the 21st century and a profound rejection of the postindependence social and political organization of the Anglophone Caribbean and its contentment with neocolonial arrangements of power. Kamugisha provides a dazzling reading of two towering figures of the Caribbean intellectual tradition, C. L. R. James and Sylvia Wynter, and their quest for human freedom beyond coloniality. Ultimately, he urges the Caribbean to recall and reconsider the radicalism of its most distinguished 20th-century thinkers in order to imagine a future beyond neocolonialism. Against the lethargy and despair of the contemporary Anglophone Caribbean experience, Aaron Kamugisha gives a powerful argument for advancing Caribbean radical thought as an answer to the conundrums of the present.Beyond Colonialityis an extended meditation on Caribbean thought and freedom at the beginning of the 21st century and a profound rejection of the postindependence social and political organization of the Anglophone Caribbean and its contentment with neocolonial arrangements of power. Kamugisha provides a dazzling reading of two towering figures of the Caribbean intellectual tradition, C. L. R. James and Sylvia Wynter, and their quest for human freedom beyond coloniality. Ultimately, he urges the Caribbean to recall and reconsider the radicalism of its most distinguished 20th-century thinkers in order to imagine a future beyond neocolonialism. 1. This work makes important strides toward the development of new political and social identities for the people of the Caribbean. 2. It will have broad appeals across many scholarly areas including Caribbean Studies, African studies, politics, sociology, and critical theory. 3. The book is a timely call to re-energize Caribbean intellectual traditions. It challenges Caribbean people to invent new models for citizenship and freedom, rather than look to the colonial past or European history Cover 1 Title 4 Copyright 5 Dedication 6 Contents 8 Acknowledgments 10 1. Beyond Caribbean Coloniality 16 Part I. The Coloniality of the Present 50 2. The Coloniality of Citizenship in the Contemporary Anglophone Caribbean 52 3. Creole Discourse and Racism in the Caribbean 91 Part II. The Caribbean Beyond 130 4. A Jamesian Poiesis? C. L. R. James’s New Society and Caribbean Freedom 132 5. The Caribbean Beyond: Sylvia Wynter’s Black Experience of New World Coloniality and the Human after Western Man 181 Conclusion: A Caribbean Sympathy 215 Bibliography 236 Index 264 About the Author 280 Beyond Coloniality is an extended meditation on Caribbean thought and freedom at the beginning of the 21st century and a profound rejection of the postindependence social and political organization of the Anglophone Caribbean and its contentment with neocolonial arrangements of power. Aaron Kamugisha provides a dazzling reading of two towering figures of the Caribbean intellectual tradition: C.L.R. James and Sylvia Wynter