Du Bois, Aime Cesaire, Leopold Sedar Senghor, and Frantz Fanon countered the theories they promulgated.
She considers these treatises in depth and describes how the revolutionary Black thinkers W. Hegel's Philosophy of History, and Count Arthur de Gobineau's Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races-were particularly influential in shaping twentieth-century ideas about Black subjectivity. Wright argues that three nineteenth-century American and European works addressing race-Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia, G. As Wright traces more than a century of debate on Black subjectivity between intellectuals of African descent and white philosophers, she also highlights how feminist writers have challenged patriarchal theories of Black identity. Wright discusses the commonalties and differences in how Black writers and thinkers from the United States, the Caribbean, Africa, France, Great Britain, and Germany have responded to white European and American claims about Black consciousness.
In this unique comparative study, Michelle M. Becoming Black is a powerful theorization of Black subjectivity throughout the African diaspora.
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