Of Black Study: Josh Myers in Conversation with Dr. Bedour Alagraa

About Of Black Study

Of Black Study explores how the ideas of Black intellectuals created different ways of thinking and knowing in their pursuit of conceptual and epistemological freedom.

Joshua Myers explores the work of thinkers who broke with the racial and colonial logics of academic disciplinarity. Bookended by meditations with June Jordan and Toni Cade Bambara, the book focuses on how W.E.B. Du Bois, Sylvia Wynter, Jacob Carruthers and Cedric Robinson contributed to Black Studies approaches to knowledge production within and beyond Western structures of knowledge.

Especially geared toward understanding the contemporary evolution of Black Studies in the neoliberal university, Of Black Study allows us to consider the stakes of intellectual freedom and the path toward a new world.

About Joshua Myers

Joshua Myers is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Howard University. He is the author of Cedric Robinson: The Time of the Black Radical Tradition and We are Worth Fighting For: A History of the Howard University Protest of 1989.

About Dr. Bedour Alagraa

Dr. Bedour Alagraa is assistant professor of Political and Social Thought in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University if Texas at Austin, and is currently a Visiting Research Scholar at the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University.