Reconstructing the Social Sciences and Humanities: Anténor Firmin, Western Intellectual Tradition, and Black Atlantic Tradition : Routledge : 9780367460679 : 036746067X : 07 May 2021 : Joseph Anténor Firmin (1850?1911) was the reigning public intellectual and political critic in Haiti in the nineteenth century. He was the first ?Black anthropologist? and ?Black Egyptologist? to deconstruct the Western interpretation of global history and challenge the ideological construction of human nature and theories of knowledge in the Western social sciences and the humanities. As an anti-racist intellectual and cosmopolitan thinker, Firmin's writings challenge Western ideas of the colonial subject, race achievement, and modernity's imagination of a linear narrative based on the false premises of social evolution and development, colonial history and epistemology, and the intellectual evolution of the Aryan-White race. Firmin articulated an alternative way to study global historical trajectories,