This article argues for the importance of integrating histories of enslaved Africans and their descendants—including histories of resistance to racialized power structures—within narratives about the Anthropocene. It suggests that the Black Studies Scholar Clyde Wood’s concept of the “blues epistemology” offers conceptual tools for considering how Black political and intellectual traditions have strived to imagine and create a more livable world amid the entangled crises of racial injustice and ecological degradation. I argue that locating Black political thought within broader narratives of environmental change and economic development illuminates the racial dimensions of current global ecological crises and orients scholarship and political practice toward the spaces in which such thought is being animated today in response to the challenges of the Anthropocene.

本文主张将人类奴隶制及其后裔的历史（包括反对种族化的权力结构的历史）纳入人类世纪的叙述中的重要性。它表明，黑人研究学者克莱德·伍德（Clyde Wood）的“布鲁斯认识论”概念提供了概念工具，用于考虑在种族不公正和生态退化的纠缠危机中，黑人政治和知识传统如何努力想象和创造一个更宜居的世界。