Reconstructing the Social Sciences and Humanities

Celucien L. Joseph is an intellectual historian, literary scholar, and theologian. He is an associate professor of English at Indian River State College. He holds a PhD in Literary Studies from the University of Texas at Dallas and a PhD in Theology and Ethics from the University of Pretoria (Pretoria, South Africa). He is the author of numerous academic books and peer-reviewed articles. His recent books include Revolutionary Change and Democratic Religion: Christianity, Vodou, and Secularism (2020), a 2020 “Important Political Book—PoliticoTech Awards Finalist,” and Theologizing in Black: On Africana Theological Ethics and Anthropology (2020). His books From Toussaint to Price-Mars: Rhetoric, Race, and Religion in Haitian Thought (2013), and Haitian Modernity and Liberative Interruptions: Discourse on Race, Religion, and Freedom (2013) received Honorable Mention at The Pan African International 2014 Book Awards.Paul C. Mocombe (PhD) is a Haitian philosopher and sociologist. He is a former visiting professor of Philosophy and Sociology at Bethune Cookman University, an assistant professor of Philosophy and Sociology at West Virginia State University, and the president/CEO of The Mocombeian Foundation, Inc. He is the author of many influential books, such as The Theory of Phenomenological Structuralism; Haitian Epistemology; and Identity and Ideology in Haiti.

• Introduction: Firmin, Global History, and the End of RaceCelucien L. JosephPart IFirmin, Haitian History, and Caribbean Intellectual Heritage1 Race and Modernity in the Caribbean Discourse Glodel Mezilas Translated by Nathan H. Dize and Siobhan Meï 2 "Tous les hommes sont l'homme" : Antenor Firmin, Toussaint Louverture,Racial Equality and the Fact of BlacknessPaul B. Miller3 Reinventing Europe: Joseph Anténor Firmin and the Legacy of the 19th Century Gudrun Rath4 The Sense of Place in Firmin’s Monsieur Roosevelt, Président des États-Unis et de la République d’HaïtiGeorges Eddy LucienTranslated by Nathan H. Dize and Siobhan Meï5 Forms of Firminism: Understanding Joseph Anténor Firmin Celucien L. Joseph Part IIFirmin, Black Internationalism, and Pan-Africanism6 Anténor Firmin, Pan-Africanism, and the Struggle for Race VindicationGershom Williams7 Lions and Sheep: Anténor Firmin, Pan-Africanism, and the Rebirth ofMalcolm-X Tammie Jenkins8 At the Center of World History, Before Diop, there was Firmin: GreatScholars on the Black African Origin of the Ancient Egyptians and theirCivilizationPatrick DelicesPart IIIFirmin, Universalism, and Western Intellectual History9 Firmin and the Laws of Multilineal EvolutionMatthew Carson Allen10 Reconstructing the Universality of the Social Sciences and Humanities: Anténor Firmin and Black (Haitian) Atlantic Thought and CulturePaul C. Mocombe11 The Abolition of All Privilege: Race, Equality, and Freedom in the Work of Anténor FirminGreg Beckett

Select Guide Rating