The last will be the first, or the prismo of caribeen training as a decolonization of the being

Abstract

This work follows the lead of a commentary made by Stuart Hall concerning his own trajectory, which he qualifies by the idea of “prism of Caribbean formation”. The theme is approached by the scope of emancipation, arguing that the search for fulfillment of political universals, of freedom in particular, assumes specific shades in the Caribbean Sea. These shades are, ultimately, where lies the decolonizing potential of being as it had been developed by Nelson Maldonado-Torres. It discuss how a tradition of debates around the subject of emancipation that dates back to Hegel is in the hand of a Caribbean author displaced by such prism of Caribbean formation. Lastly, it argues that the movement accomplished by Fanon does not limit itself to his work, but finds intellectual expression in other authors of the region, and that a political sociology of the Black Atlantic must take it seriously this specific engagement made possible by the “prism” as an analytical category.