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Creating a Black vernacular philosophy / Devonya N. Havis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Havis, Devonya N, author.
- Series:
- Philosophy of race.
- Philosophy of race
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Music.
- African Americans.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (129 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.
- Place of Publication:
- Maryland : Lexington Books, 2022.
- System Details:
- text file rdaft
- Summary:
- "This book explores how vernacular practices created within Black American diasporic cultures via narratives, the blues, jazz, work songs, and other expressive forms, can be understood as philosophy in their own right"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Performative utterance
- How to slip the yoke: the Black (w)hole ritual
- Searching for the Black difference: Black philosophy and redemption songs
- A critique of Black philosophy: rethinking Black philosophical re-appropriations of humanism
- No more redemption songs: the Black difference and alterity.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781666993394
- 1666993395
- 9781498530156
- 149853015X
- OCLC:
- 1357503168
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