Abstract
In this chapter, Ornette D. Clennon examines the possibilities of grassroots education as being a site for a Black Radicalism (as envisioned by Kehinde Andrews and Cedric J. Robinson) that operates outside of the confines of whiteness. Clennon also explores the potentially challenging relationship between Black Radicalism, (as a vehicle for social justice) and the state and how these challenges can be possibly overcome via Higher Education and the valuing of the ‘Black Academic’.
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Clennon, O.D. (2018). Can Modern Pan-Africanism Help Us to Visualise a Future Without Whiteness?. In: Black Scholarly Activism between the Academy and Grassroots. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00837-6_5
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