Black scholars must refuse complicity with darkness-serving institutions

Evidence

When black scholars hear the call to equal opportunity in darkness, they must remember that they do not belong in the darkness of an American culture that refuses to move toward the light. They are not meant to be pliant captives and agents of institutions that deny light all over the world. No, they must speak the truth to themselves and to the community and to all who invite them into the new darkness. They must affirm the light, the light movement of their past, the light movement of their people. They must affirm their capacities to move forward toward new alternatives for light in America. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 11

Categorization

• QUESTION: The ‘light/darkness’ rhetoric calls to a tradition of Black counter-memory; worth chasing what Robinson means by ‘alternatives for light in America.’
• XREF: connects to: Black scholars were excluded from studying Black people as too biased — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 899; Black scholars challenged the lies of American historiography before the monuments were built — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America…, 255; Indigenous scholars treat refusal and incommensurability as political correctives against oppressive forms of understanding — Farhan Samanani, Conviviality and its others: for a…, 66 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Black scholars were excluded from studying Black people as too biased — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 899; Black scholars challenged the lies of American historiography before the monuments were built — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America…, 255; Indigenous scholars treat refusal and incommensurability as political correctives against oppressive forms of understanding — Farhan Samanani, Conviviality and its others: for a…, 66 (+1 more)