Abstract
This paper critically examines the nexus between the scientific method
and the study of race in the contemporary world. It begins by
historicizing the emergence of the scientific method as indispensable to
the advent of European modernity. The development of modernity collapsed
into the racialization of black subjects as subhuman and criminal. This
criminalization of blackness occurs at two critical junctures: the
arrest of blacks via plantation enslavement and the concomitant
imprisoning of black bodies of thought. The consequence of modernity’s
carceral methods implicates the study of race, particularly the
formation of Black Studies, by criminalizing black reason. As such, the
paper contends for an Afromodern scientific revolution, understood as
the emancipation of method and the decarceralizing of science in order
to procure black liberation in the modern world.