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Interrogating “Blackness” As a Human Identity Ethical Implications and Phenomenological Predicaments

By Kuir ë Garang Copyright 2026
158 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge

This book highlights and explores in depth the moral and conceptual problems invoked by the continued use of “blackness” and “black” as modern identity realities for continental and diaspora Africans (CADA). The book deals with the importance of identity and theories of change and their systemic and structural consequences. It presents the phenomenological analysis of “blackness” and the body... Read more

Introduction: Encountering “Blackness”

1. Names and Referents

2. Phenomenology: A Self-Responsible Beginning

3. Social Identity

4. Socio-Political Utility and the Moral Problematics of “Blackness”

5. The Phenomenological Decoupling of “Blackness” from the African Body

6. Epistemic and Epistemological Marginality of CADA

Biography

Kuir ë Garang is a contract lecturer at Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada, and a partial-load professor at Sheridan College, Canada. His research interests include the marginalization of African-Canadian youth in Canadian institutions, state-building in the context of race and ethnicity, and the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl as an approach to epistemic and social freedom.