I am because we are : readings in Africana philosophy / edited with introductions by Fred Lee Hord (Mzee Lasana Okpara) and Jonathan Scott Lee.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hord, Fred L., editor.

Lee, Jonathan Scott, editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Race identity.

Black people.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

Social groups--Philosophy.

Social groups.

Philosophy, Black.

Philosophy, African.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 514 pages.)

Edition:

Revised edition.

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2016]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

First published in 1995, I Am Because We Are has been recognized as a major, canon-defining anthology and adopted as a text in a wide variety of college and university courses. Bringing together writings by prominent black thinkers from Africa, the Caribbean, and North America, Fred Lee Hord and Jonathan Scott Lee made the case for a tradition of "relational humanism" distinct from the philosophical preoccupations of the West. Over the past twenty years, however, new scholarly research has uncovered other contributions to the discipline now generally known as "Africana philosophy" that were not included in the original volume. In this revised and expanded edition, Hord and Lee build on the strengths of the earlier anthology while enriching the selection of readings to bring the text into the twenty-first century. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introductions. I am because we are-twenty years on / Fred Lee Hord, Jonathan Scott Lee

"I am because we are" : an introduction to Black philosophy / Fred Lee Hord, Jonathan Scott Lee

Africa. The declarations of innocence

The teachings of Ptahhotep

An interview with H. Odera Oruka / Paul Mbuya Akoko

Negritude : a humanism of the twentieth century / Léopold Sédar Senghor

Consciencism / Kwame Nkrumah

Ujamaa-the basis of African socialism / Julius K. Nyerere

Identity and dignity in the context of the national liberation struggle / Amilcar Cabral

White racism and Black consciousness / Steve Biko

from Myth, literature, and the African world / Wole Soyinka

Feminism and revolution / Awa Thiam

We are committed to building a single nation in our country / Nelson Mandela

Person and community : in defense of moderate communitarianism / Kwame Gyekye

(Re)constituting the cosmology and sociocultural institutions of Òyó-Yorùbá : articulating the Yorùbá world-sense / Oyeronke Oyewùmi

The Caribbean. Africa for the Africans / Marcus Garvey

The future as I see it / Marcus Garvey

The awakening of race consciousness among Black students / Paulette Nardal

The West Indian middle classes / C.L.R. James

From discourse on colonialism / Aimé Césaire

Racism and culture / Frantz Fanon

Black power, a basic understanding / Walter Rodney

The shadow of the whip : a comment on male-female relations in the Caribbean / Merle Hodge

from The racial contract / Charles W. Mills

The general character of Afro-Caribbean philosophy / Paget Henry

On how we mistook the map for the territory, and reimprisoned ourselves in our unbearable wrongness of being, of Desêtre : Black studies toward the human project / Sylvia Wynter

Reasoning in Black : Africana philosophy under the weight of misguided reason / Lewis R. Gordon

North America. Oration, delivered in Corinthian Hall, Rochester, July 5, 1852 / Frederick Douglass

The relations and duties of free colored men in America to Africa / Alexander Crummell

Womanhood : a vital element in the regeneration and progress of a race / Anna Julia Cooper

The Atlanta exposition address / Booker T. Washington

Does race antipathy serve any good purpose? / W.E.B. Du Bois

On being ashamed of oneself : an essay on race pride / W.E.B. Du Bois

The concept of race / W.E.B. Du Bois

The new Negro / Alain Locke

Speech on "Black Revolution" (New York, April 8, 1964) / Malcolm X

Black power / Martin Luther King Jr

Rootedness : the ancestor as foundation / Toni Morrison

Radical perspectives on the empowerment of Afro-American women : lessons for the 1980s / Angela Y. Davis

Philosophy, ethnicity, and race / Lucius Outlaw

Feminism : a transformational politic / bell hooks

Learning to talk of race / Cornel West

The Black underclass and Black philosophers / Cornel West

Black solidarity after Black power / Tommie Shelby

The eschatological dilemma : the problem of studying the Black male only as the deaths that result from Anti-Black racism / Tommy J. Curry.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 501-514) and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781613763735

1613763735

Publisher Number:

99979062379

40026190033

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