Beschreibung:
Jason Ambroise is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at William Paterson University of New Jersey. His research fields include the history of "race" and its interconnection to other socio-human discourses of Western modernity; the history of the human sciences; and the history of biology/socio-biology. His teaching fields include nineteenth and twentieth century U.S. history, the history of science, and Black Studies. Previously published essays are titled "Rethinking 'Race': Biocentrism and the Origins of Our Time" (2004) and "Biocentrism, Neo-Ptolemaicism, and E.O. Wilson's Consilience: A Contemporary Example of 'Saving the Phenomenon' of Man, in the Name of the Human" (2006). He is currently working on a book-length manuscript entitled Instituting Order: On the Formation of Criminology in the U.S.
Black Knowledges/Black Struggles: Essays in Critical Epistemology explores the central, but often critically neglected role of knowledge and epistemic formations within social movements for human emancipation.