Black thought matters Africana philosophy and freedom LaRose T. Parris

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parris, LaRose, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, African.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

London Bloomsbury Academic 2026

Summary:

"The profound influence of African and Afro-diasporic philosophy on Western thought has, throughout history, been denied and dismissed. In an act of political and ideological defiance, Black Thought Matters traces the early production of philosophical thought to the African continent, disrupting the hegemonic Eurocentric narrative of the Enlightenment as the triumph of human rationality and intellectualism over blind religiosity. Across historical epochs—antiquity, the Enlightenment, the age of empire, and the modern world—LaRose T. Parris uncovers the persistent erasure, whitening, and distortion of Black thought. To rewrite this record, she draws on sources from Antef to Ibn Rushd, and Anna Julia Cooper to Frantz Fanon, as well as contemporary Africana philosophers, to construct a powerful counter-history that places Black thought at the centre rather than the margins of human knowledge. In making the case for Africana philosophy’s centrality to the genesis and movement of global philosophical and political thought, this book also valorizes transnational liberation efforts repudiating Black dehumanization, criminalization, and extermination through state-sponsored police murder. Affirming Black thought’s relevance announces a commitment to the import of Africana thinkers whose work laid the foundation for Black Lives Matter’s ethical and political mission: to emphasize the intrinsic value of Black life and struggle to advance a radical egalitarianism wherein all lives are truly equal"-- Bloomsbury Collections

Contents:

Unveiling the history of Black thought : Lewis Gordon’s An Introduction to Africana Philosophy

Leonard Harris’s philosophy of struggle

CREOLIZE the academy : embracing transdisciplinarity to revive the humanities and promote social justice

The specter of Africana thought in Juliet Hooker’s Theorizing Race in the Americas

“Young, gifted” and woman, reading Rosa Luxemburg through Lorraine Hansberry and the Black radical tradition

Interview with Jina Fast, author of Decolonizing Existentialism and Phenomenology (2023)

Interview with A. Shahid Stover, author of Being and Insurrection (2019) and Epistemic Ruptures, Insurgent Philosophy (2022)

Interview with Lewis R. Gordon

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from home page (Bloomsbury Collections, viewed August 24, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version Parris, LaRose T. Black thought matters

ISBN:

9781350536562

1350536563

9781350536555

1350536555

9781350536579

1350536571

OCLC:

1592689184

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Restricted for use by site license