| Description |
x, 390 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-390). |
| Contents |
Introduction: "I am because we are" : an introduction to Black philosophy / Fred Lee Hord (Mzee Lasana Okpara) and Jonathan Scott Lee -- Africa -- Introduction -- 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 -- 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 -- The Caribbean -- Introduction -- The call of providence in the descendant of Africa in America / Edward W. Blyden -- Africa for the Africans / Marcus Garvey -- The future as I see it / Marcus Garvey -- from So uncle said / Jean Price-Mars -- 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 -- North America -- Introduction -- Orantion, 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. DuBois -- On being ashamed of oneself : an essay on race pride / W.E.B. DuBois -- The concept of race / W.E.B. DeBois -- The new Negro / Alain Locke -- Speech on "Black revolution" (New York, April 8, 1964) / Malcolm X -- Black power / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- 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 -- The Afrocentric idea of education / Molefi Kete Asante -- Learning to talk of race / Cornel West -- The Black underclass and Black philosophers / Cornel West -- Postmodernism and utopia, an unholy alliance / Leonard Harris -- Selected bibliography. |
| Summary |
"This anthology of writings by prominent black thinkers from antiquity to the present makes the case for a central tradition of black philosophy, rooted in Africa and distinct from the intellectual heritage of the West."--Publisher description. |
| Processing Action |
Self-Renewing 2017 UoY |
| Subject |
Black people -- Race identity.
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Identity (Philosophical concept)
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Social groups -- Philosophy.
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Philosophy, Black.
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Black people -- Race identity.
(OCoLC)fst00833987
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Identity (Philosophical concept) (OCoLC)fst00966889
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Philosophy, Black. (OCoLC)fst01060898
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Social groups -- Philosophy.
(OCoLC)fst01122487
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Ethnische Identität (DE-588)4153096-2
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Philosophie (DE-588)4045791-6
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Schwarze (DE-588)4116433-7
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Afrika (DE-588)4000695-5
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Karibik (DE-588)4073241-1
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United States (DE-588)4078704-7
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Aufsatzsammlung (DE-588)4143413-4
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Schwarze.
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Aufsatzsammlung.
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| Added Author |
Hord, Fred L., editor, writer of introduction.
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Lee, Jonathan Scott, editor, writer of introduction.
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| Added Title |
Readings in Black philosophy |
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Black philosophy |
| ISBN |
0870239643 (cloth) |
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9780870239649 (cloth) |
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0870239651 (pbk.) |
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9780870239656 (pbk.) |
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