Develops a theoretical and methodological focus on Blackness to rethink ideas about humanity underpinning the field of student development.In ampampquotNo Humans Involved An Open Letter to My Colleaguesampampquot Jamaican writer and theorist Sylvia Wynter critiques the social and human sciences for perpetuating social hierarchies particularly through the Western humanist framing of ampampquotManampampquot as the universal representation of humanity. Human development theories revolve around this concept necessitating acquiescence to the category Man to claim humanity. But Blackness complicates and unsettles these terms in ways the fields of higher education and educational research are in many ways just beginning to confront.On Blackness Liveliness and What It Means to Be Human extends Wynters critique to human development and academic knowledge production arguing that Black specificity can create new possibilities for Black being.