Thinking the US South : Contemporary Philosophy from Southern Perspectives / edited by Shannon Sullivan [and nine others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sullivan, Shannon, 1967- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 212 pages) : illustrations ;

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"This anthology demonstrates that US Southern identities, borders, and practices play an important but unacknowledged role in ethical, political, emotional, and global issues connected to knowledge production"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Doing Philosophy from Southern Standpoints / Shannon Sullivan

The Southern White Worker Question / Linda Martin Alcoff

Southern Land: Indigeneity, Genocide, and Racialization in Whitened Lineages / Ladelle McWhorter

Between Socrates and Grandma: On Being a Black Southern Philosopher / Arnold L. Farr

Are You a Yankee? Purity, Identity, and "the Southern" / Michael J. Monahan

Affective Economies from the Global South to the US South: Global Care Chains and Southern Sympathy Fatigue / Shiloh Whitney

Altars for the Living: Shadow Ground, Aesthetic Memory, and the US-Mexico Borderlands / Mariana Ortega

"I Ain't Thinkin' 'Bout You": Black Liberation Politics at the Intersection of Region, Gender, and Class / Lindsey Stewart

Black Ancestral Discourses: Cultural Cadences from the South / Devonya N. Havis

Dumping on Southern "White Trash": Etiquette and Abjection / Shannon Sullivan

On Being Slow: Philosophy and Disability in the US South / Kim Q. Hall

Afterword: Philosophizings in/of/regarding "the South(s)": A New Field of Discourse in US American Philosophy? / Lucius T. Outlaw (Jr.).

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8101-4331-3

OCLC:

1242425238