A companion to African-American philosophy / edited by Tommy L. Lott and John P. Pittman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lott, Tommy Lee, 1946-

Pittman, John P.

Series:

Blackwell companions to philosophy ; 25.

Blackwell companions to philosophy ; 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 465 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This wide-ranging, multidisciplinary collection of newly commissioned articles brings together distinguished voices in the field of Africana philosophy and African-American social and political thought. * Provides a comprehensive critical survey of African-American philosophical thought. * Collects wide-ranging, multidisciplinary, newly commissioned articles in one authoritative volume. * Serves as a benchmark work of reference for courses in philosophy, social and political thought, cultural studies, and African-American studies.

Contents:

Philosophy and the Afro-American experience / Cornel West

African-American existential philosophy / Lewis R. Gordon

African-American philosophy: a Caribbean perspective / Paget Henry

Modernisms in black / Frank M. Kirkland

The crisis of the black intellectual / Hortense J. Spillers

Kant and knowledge of disappearing expression / Ronald A.T. Judy

Social contract theory, slavery, and the antebellum courts / Anita L. Allen and Thaddeus Pope

The morality of reparations II / Bernard R. Boxill

Afrocentricity: critical considerations / Lucius T. Outlaw, Jr.

African retentions / Tommy L. Lott

African philosophy at the turn of the century / Albert G. Mosley

Some group matters: intersectionality, situated standpoints, and black feminist thought / Patricia Hill Collins

Radicalizing feminisms from "the movement era" / Joy A. James

Philosophy and racial paradigms / Naomi Zack

Racial classification and public policy / David Theo Goldberg

White supremacy / Charles W. Mills

Self-respect, fairness, and living morally / Laurence M. Thomas

The legacy of Plessy v. Ferguson / Michele Moody-Adams

Some reflections on the Brown decision and its aftermath / Howard McGary

Contesting the ambivalence and hostility to affirmative action within the black community / Luke C. Harris

Subsistence welfare benefits as property interests: legal theories and moral considerations / Rudolph V. Vanterpool

Racism and health care: a medical ethics issue / Annette Dula

Racialized punishment and prison abolition / Angela Y. Davis

The Harlem renaissance and philosophy / Leonard Harris

Critical theory, aesthetics, and black modernity / Lorenzo C. Simpson

Black cinema and aesthetics / Clyde R. Taylor

Thanatic pornography, interracial rape, and the Ku Klux Klan / T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting

Lynching and burning rituals in African American literature / Trudier Harris-Lopez

Rap as art and philosophy / Richard Shusterman

Microphone commandos: rap music and political ideology / Bill E. Lawson

Sports, political philosophy, and the African American / Gerald Early.

Notes:

Originally published: Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

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OCLC:

184983346