Abstract:This essay examines the challenge of mapping critical terms to understand the complex meanings of blackness and freedom in the post-Obama/Trump era and argues that black people must reaffirm a commitment to a reconstructed global African world view to develop an alternate (nonwhite/mainstream) epistemology to establish any self-definition of these terms. While it acknowledges the useful of traditional theory, it cautions against the dismissal of (and promotes instead) the vernacular and folk wisdom that undergird African American critical reading practices prior to the professionalization of the field of African American literary studies.

中文翻译：

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“下次遇到类似问题时，问问自己”

摘要：本文探讨了在后奥巴马/特朗普时代，为理解黑人和自由的复杂含义而绘制关键术语所面临的挑战，并认为黑人必须重申对重建的全球非洲世界观的承诺，以发展另一种（非白人） /主流）认识论来建立这些术语的任何自我定义。虽然它承认传统理论的有用性，但它告诫不要忽视（并提倡）在非裔美国人文学研究领域专业化之前巩固非裔美国人批判性阅读实践的白话和民间智慧。