Reconstructing the Social Sciences and Humanities

Introduction: Firmin, Global History, and the End of Race

Celucien L. Joseph

Part I

Firmin, Haitian History, and Caribbean Intellectual Heritage

1 Race and Modernity in the Caribbean Discourse

Glodel Mezilas

Translated by Nathan H. Dize and Siobhan Mei

2 "Tous les hommes sont l'homme" : Antenor Firmin, Toussaint Louverture,

Racial Equality and the Fact of Blackness

Paul B. Miller

3 Reinventing Europe: Joseph Antenor Firmin and the Legacy of the 19th Century

Gudrun Rath

4 The Sense of Place in Firmin's Monsieur Roosevelt, President des Etats-Unis et de la Republique d'Haiti

Georges Eddy Lucien

Translated by Nathan H. Dize and Siobhan Mei

5 Forms of Firminism: Understanding Joseph Antenor Firmin

Celucien L. Joseph

Part II

Firmin, Black Internationalism, and Pan-Africanism

6 Antenor Firmin, Pan-Africanism, and the Struggle for Race Vindication

Gershom Williams

7 Lions and Sheep: Antenor Firmin, Pan-Africanism, and the Rebirth of

Malcolm-X

Tammie Jenkins

8 At the Center of World History, Before Diop, there was Firmin: Great

Scholars on the Black African Origin of the Ancient Egyptians and their

Civilization

Patrick Delices

Part III

Firmin, Universalism, and Western Intellectual History

9 Firmin and the Laws of Multilineal Evolution

Matthew Carson Allen

10 Reconstructing the Universality of the Social Sciences and Humanities: Antenor

Firmin and Black (Haitian) Atlantic Thought and Culture

Paul C. Mocombe

11 The Abolition of All Privilege: Race, Equality, and Freedom in the Work of Antenor Firmin

Greg Beckett