The Afrolantica Series takes its inspirations from the work of legal scholar and Critical Race Theory pioneer Derrick Bell, particularly his concept Afrolantica—a symbolic land imagined as a space where Black people might live beyond the constraints of anti-Black racism.
In my work, Afrolantica has become something more. It is the intellectual home of my scholarship: a space from which books, essays, lectures, conversations, and research explore Black Africana existence on its own terms, rather than through inherited Euro-American (Western) assumptions.
Drawing on the Africana Critical Race Framework (ACRF™️), Afrolantica brings together Black Critical Race Theory, Black Africana Existentialism, and decolonial thought to examine questions of identity, temporality, psychology, coloniality, and what it means to be human.
Whether through books, journal articles, public lectures, or conversations, Afrolantica is an invitation to think differently about the conditions that shape Black life and the possibilities that emerge when knowledge begins from Black Africana intellectual traditions.
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