Black Panther and Philosophy

Contributors: One Single Tribe xi

Introduction: A Few Words from the Wakandan International Outreach Centre 1
Edwardo Perez and Timothy E. Brown

Part I Yibambe! 3

1 Challenge Day: Tradition and Revolution in Wakanda 5
Armond Boudreaux

2 Transforming Wakanda: Justice (or Not?) in Black Panther 14
Steve Bein and Deana Lewis

3 Sins of the Fathers: Historical Injustice and Its Repair in Black Panther 22
Ben Almassi

4 "What Would You Have Wakanda Do about It?": Black Panther, Global Justice, and African Philosophy 32
Christine Hobden

5 T'Challa's Liberalism and Killmonger's Pan-Africanism 42
Stephen C.W. Graves

Part II Wakanda Forever! 51

6 Panther Virtue: The Many Roles of T'Challa 53
Mark D. White

7 Should Wakanda Take Over the World? The Ethics of International Power 61
Greg Littmann

8 T'Challa, the Revolutionary King: Legitimation Crises in Wakanda 70
Kevin J. Porter

9 T'Challa's Machiavellian Methods 80
Ian J. Drake and Matthew B. Lloyd

10 Understanding the Reigns of T'Challa and Killmonger through Hannah Arendt 87
Jolynna Sinanan

Part III The Heart-Shaped Herb 95

11 Beastly Boys: The Racial-Sexual Politics of Meat 97
Sofia Huerter

12 Panther Mystique: Wakandan Feminism Demystified 107
J. Lenore Wright and Edwardo Perez

13 The Ancestral Plane: Metaphysical Mystery or Meaningful Metaphor? 123
Dean A. Kowalski

14 The Afterlife of Erik Killmonger in African Philosophy 132
Paul A. Dottin

15 Wakandan Resources: The Epistemological Reality of Black Panther's Fiction 152
Ruby Komic

Part IV Vibranium 163

16 When Tech Meets Tradition: How Wakandan Technology Transcends Anti-Blackness 165
Timothy E. Brown

17 Vibranium Dreams and Afrofuturist Visions: Technology, Nature, and Culture 175
Alessio Gerola

18 Black Panther's Afrofuturism: Reconnecting Neural and Cultural Pathways 184
Michael J. Gormley, Benjamin D. Wendorf, and Ryan Solinsky

19 Wakanda and the Dilemma of Racial Utopianism 193
Juan M. Floyd-Thomas

20 The Value of Vibranium 203
Edwardo Perez

Part V Black Lives Matter 211

21 Dismantling the Master's House with the Master's Tools 213
Thanayi M. Jackson

22 An Impossible Return? (Anti)Colonialism in/of Black Panther 221
Julio C. Covarrubias-Cabeza

23 T'Challa's Dream and Killmonger's Means: Echoes of MLK and Malcolm X 230
Gerald Browning

24 "It's Time They Knew the Truth about Us! We're Warriors!": Black Panther and the Black Panther Party 238
Karen Joan Kohoutek

25 Fear of a Black Museum: Black Existentialism in Black Panther 247
Charles F. Peterson

Index 256

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• Filosofia

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