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Группа авторов. Black Panther and Philosophy
The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series. Series editor: William Irwin
BLACK PANTHER AND PHILOSOPHY. WHAT CAN WAKANDA OFFER THE WORLD?
Dedication
Contents
Guide
Pages
Contributors: One Single Tribe
Introduction A Few Words from the Wakandan International Outreach Centre
Notes
1 Challenge Day Tradition and Revolution in Wakanda
“Don’t Scare Me Like That, Colonizer!”
“Let the Challenge Begin”
“Burn It All”
“What Has Happened to Our Wakanda?”
“Just Because Something Works …”
Notes
2 Transforming Wakanda Justice (or Not?) in Black Panther
Wakanda Forever?
Justice and Retribution
Justice and Reparation
Justice and Restoration
Justice Transformed
Notes
3 Sins of the Fathers Historical Injustice and Its Repair in Black Panther
“Every Breath You Take Is Mercy from Me.”
Justice at the Museum and Beyond
“Don’t Sweat, I’m Gonna Take It Off Your Hands for You.”
“How Do You Think Your Ancestors Got These?”
“In Times of Crisis, the Wise Build Bridges.”
T’Chaka’s Isolationism and Active Ignorance
Killmonger’s Imperialism and the Master’s Tools
Nakia, T’Challa, and Relational Repair
“I Must Right These Wrongs”
Notes
4 “What Would You Have Wakanda Do about It?” Black Panther, Global Justice, and African Philosophy
Knowledge Is Power: What Would You Do With It?
“Y’all Sittin’ up Here Comfortable. Must Feel Good.”
What about African Philosophy?
“More Connects Us than Separates Us”
“I’ve Seen Too Many in Need Just to Turn a Blind Eye.”
“What Would You Have Wakanda Do about It?”
Our People
Notes
5 T’Challa’s Liberalism and Killmonger’s Pan-Africanism
“Wakanda Has the Tools to Liberate’em All.”
T’Challa’s Liberalism
Killmonger’s Pan-Africanism
When Competing Philosophies Collide
Notes
6 Panther Virtue The Many Roles of T’Challa
The Virtues of the Black Panther
But Virtue Needs Judgment
The Many Roles of the Black Panther … and the Conflicts that Result
Heavy Is the Head that Wears the Crown
King for Life … Like It or Not
Notes
7 Should Wakanda Take Over the World? The Ethics of International Power
Wakanda Could Rule Them All
The Right Way
“You Want to See Us Become Just Like the People You Hate so Much.”
“I’ve Seen Too Many in Need Just to Turn a Blind Eye.”
Notes
8 T’Challa, the Revolutionary King Legitimation Crises in Wakanda
“I’m the King Now.”
“I Want to Be a Great King.”
“Just Because Something Works Doesn’t Mean It Cannot Be Improved.”
“You Get to Decide What Kind of King You Are Going to Be.”
“We Need a King.”
Notes
9 T’Challa’s Machiavellian Methods
The Machiavellian Model
T’Challa, Prince of Wakanda
The Utility of Fear and Violence
T’Challa and the Five Qualities
Faith
Humanity
The Uses of Religion
A God on Earth
Notes
10 Understanding the Reigns of T’Challa and Killmonger through Hannah Arendt
Wakanda Forever or Wakanda First?
Anarchist? Revolutionary? “Nah, I’m Your King!”
“Do We Still Hide, Baba? Why?”
“This Time, We’re on Top.”
Notes
11 Beastly Boys The Racial-Sexual Politics of Meat
“Silence! I Make the Pronouncements, Girl!”
“I Am the King Now!”
“I’m Kidding. We are Vegetarians.”
“So It Was Less a Murder than a Defeat.”
Notes
12 Panther Mystique Wakandan Feminism Demystified
“This Corset Is Really Uncomfortable.”
“The Real Question Is, What Are Those?”
“I Would Make a Great Queen because I Am Stubborn.”
“What Has Happened to Our Wakanda?”
“What Can Wakanda Offer the World?”
Notes
13 The Ancestral Plane Metaphysical Mystery or Meaningful Metaphor?
“He Was There! He Was There, My Father.”
“The Heart-Shaped Herb Did That?”
“Do Not Tell Me What Is Possible, Tell Me the Truth!”
“You Can’t Let Your Father’s Mistakes Define Who You Are.”
“Come. Much More for You to Learn.”
Notes
14 The Afterlife of Erik Killmonger in African Philosophy
“In My Culture, Death Is Not the End.”
“Allow the Heart-Shaped Herb to … Take You to the Ancestral Plane.”
“I Know How the Colonizer Thinks.”
“Everybody Dies, It’s Just Life around Here.”
Killmonger in Limbo?
Killmonger in the Ancestral Plane?
Killmonger in Oblivion?
Killmonger in Orisha Realm?
“Can You Believe That? A Kid from Oakland … Believing in Fairytales!”
Notes
15 Wakandan Resources The Epistemological Reality of Black Panther’s Fiction
“The Illusions of Division Threaten Our Very Existence.”
“The Real Question Is: What Are Those?”
“What Can a Nation of Farmers Offer the Rest of the World?”
“We Must Right These Wrongs.”
Notes
16 When Tech Meets Tradition How Wakandan Technology Transcends Anti-Blackness
Are There Black People in the (Transhumanist) Future?
“You Savages Didn’t Deserve It!”
The Future Must Have Roots and Branches
Blackness as a Pathway to the Future
Notes
17 Vibranium Dreams and Afrofuturist Visions Technology, Nature, and Culture
Vibranium Vibes
Is Vibranium Just an Instrument?
Technology and Culture
Wakandan Technological Culture
What the World Can Learn from Wakanda’s Afrofuturism
Notes
18 Black Panther’s Afrofuturism Reconnecting Neural and Cultural Pathways
Past and Future
People of African Descent in Science Fiction
Spinal Cord Injuries and Afrofuturist Reconnections
Black Panther’s Afrofuturism: Flying Wakandans
Black Panther’s Afrofuturism: The Duality of Water and Violence
Agency in Water
Okorafor, the Singularity
Notes
19 Wakanda and the Dilemma of Racial Utopianism
“This Never Gets Old.”
“The Sun Will Never Set on the Wakandan Empire.”
“This Time, We’re on Top.”
“What Do You Know about Wakanda?”
“You Know, You Really Shouldn’t Trust the Wakandans.”
“More Unites Us than Divides Us.”
Notes
20 The Value of Vibranium
“Guns, so Primitive.”
“Nah, I’m Just Feeling It.”
“Who are You?”
“What Can a Nation of Farmers Offer the Rest of the World?”
21 Dismantling the Master’s House with the Master’s Tools
The Master’s Tools
The Master’s House
Wakanda’s House
Killmonger’s House
Mastering the Master’s Tools
Notes
22 An Impossible Return? (Anti)Colonialism in/of Black Panther
Anti-Blackness in Black Panther
Anti-colonial Theory
(Anti)Colonialism in/of Black Panther
An Impossible Return?
Notes
23 T’Challa’s Dream and Killmonger’s Means Echoes of MLK and Malcolm X
T’Challa’s Dream
Killmonger’s Means
Adversaries for the Wakandan Throne
Echoing Icons
Notes
24 “It’s Time They Knew the Truth about Us! We’re Warriors!” Black Panther and the Black Panther Party
What We Want, What We Believe
“Does the State Rule the People or Do the People Rule the State?”6
“This Time, We’re on Top!”
“Wakanda Is Strong Enough …”
Notes
25 Fear of a Black Museum Black Existentialism in Black Panther
“They Tell Me You’re the Expert.”
“Nah, I’m Just Feeling It.”
“The Real Question Is: What are Those?!”
“We Let the Fear of Our Discovery Stop Us from Doing What Is Right.”
“So, Could We All Just Wrap It Up and Go Home?”
Notes
Index
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