Abstract
This Critical Race Counterstory explores "Maroon Science," covert and adaptive knowledge systems rooted in African Sacred Sciences, as a means of navigating the dystopic polycrisis of anti-Blackness, Black youth suicide, and climate destruction. Framed through Apocalyptic Education, the work begins at the end, the inevitable collapse of western schooling and broader state systems it supports, to foreground fugitivity as essential to Black autonomy. The track maps connections between Black Indigeneity, ecological adaptation, and the concealment necessary for maroon communities to evade capture. The layered counterstory portrays Maroon Science as contingencies for African epistemologies of survival, flourishing in ungovernable pockets of freedom beyond the grasp of totalizing systems. Rejecting incorporative logics, the track activates Maroon Science as a living practice, offering relational and ritual-based approaches to sustain life in apocalyptic conditions. Ultimately, it invites readers to imagine beyond colonial constraints, embracing cycles of life, death, and continuity as central to forging futures amidst systemic collapse.
Recommended Citation
Watson, K. (2025). Maroon Science: A Counterstory of Apocalypse, Abolition, and Abandonment. Black Educology Mixtape "Journal", 3(1). Retrieved from https://repository.usfca.edu/be/vol3/iss1/17