Table of Contents
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 Meï
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 Anténor Firmin and the Legacy of the 19th Century
Gudrun Rath
4 The Sense of Place in Firmin’s Monsieur Roosevelt, Président des États-Unis et de la République d’Haïti
Georges Eddy Lucien
Translated by Nathan H. Dize and Siobhan Meï
5 Forms of Firminism: Understanding Joseph Anténor Firmin
Celucien L. Joseph
Part II
Firmin, Black Internationalism, and Pan-Africanism
6 Anténor Firmin, Pan-Africanism, and the Struggle for Race Vindication
Gershom Williams
7 Lions and Sheep: Anténor 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: Anténor
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 Anténor Firmin
Greg Beckett