Sylvia Wynter

Katherine McKittrick is Associate Professor of Gender Studies at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. She is the author of Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle.

• Acknowledgments ix1. Yours in the Intellectual Struggle: Sylvia Wynter and the Realization of the Living / Katherine McKittrick 12. Unparalleled Catastrophe for Our Species? Or, to Give Humanness a Different Future: Conversations / Sylvia Wynter and Katherine McKittrick 93. Before Man: Sylvia Wynter's Rewriting of the Modern Episteme / Denise Ferreira da Silva 904. Sylvia Wynter: What Does It Mean to Be Human? / Walter D. Mignolo 1065. Still Submerged: The Uninhabitability of Urban Redevelopment / Bench Ansfield 1246. Axis, Bold as Love: On Sylvia Wynter, Jimi Hendrix, and the Promise of Science / Katherine McKittrick 1427. Strategic Anti-Essentialism: Decolonizing Decolinization / Nandita Sharma 1648. Genres of Human: Multiculturalism, Cosmo-politics, and the Caribbean Basin / Rinaldo Walcott 1839. From Masquerade to Maskarade: Caribbean Cultural Resistance and the Rehumanizing Project / Carole Boyce Davies 20310. "Come on Kid, Let's Go Get the Thing": The Sociogenic Principle and the Being of Being Black / Demetrius L. Eudell 226Bibliography 249Contributors 275Index 277

"[On] Being Human as Praxis is a major contribution to growing efforts to bring Sylvia Wynter’s critical thought to the fore of contemporary critical social theory. The collection secures Wynter’s status as a heretical intellectual insisting on the relevance of the radical Black/Caribbean decolonial tradition to the systemic crises of the early 21st century planet."  - Anthony Bayani Rodriguez (Antipode) "In their combination, and in their resonance with Wynter’s intricate and expansive opening meditation on race, science, and human being, these essays present a complex and coherent intellectual project, at once deeply rooted and generously rhizomic." - Kaiama L. Glover (Contemporary Women's Writing)