A companion to African-American philosophy / edited by Tommy L. Lott and John P. Pittman.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Lott, Tommy Lee, 1946-
Pittman, John P.
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2003.
Series:Blackwell companions to philosophy ; 25.
Subjects:
African American philosophy.
Physical Description:xv, 465 pages ; 26 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Philosophy and the Afro-American experience / Cornel West
  • African-American existential philosophy / Lewis R. Gordon
  • African-American philosophy: a Caribbean perspective / Paget Henry
  • Modernisms in black / Frank M. Kirkland
  • The crisis of the black intellectual / Hortense J. Spillers
  • Kant and knowledge of disappearing expression / Ronald A.T. Judy
  • Social contract theory, slavery, and the antebellum courts / Anita L. Allen and Thaddeus Pope
  • The morality of reparations II / Bernard R. Boxill
  • Afrocentricity: critical considerations / Lucius T. Outlaw, Jr
  • African retentions / Tommy L. Lott
  • African philosophy at the turn of the century / Albert G. Mosley
  • Some group matters: intersectionality, situated standpoints, and black feminist thought / Patricia Hill Collins
  • Radicalizing feminisms from "the movement era" / Joy A. James
  • Philosophy and racial paradigms / Naomi Zack
  • Racial classification and public policy / David Theo Goldberg
  • White supremacy / Charles W. Mills
  • Self-respect, fairness, and living morally / Laurence M. Thomas
  • The legacy of Plessy v. Ferguson / Michele Moody-Adams
  • Some reflections on the Brown decision and its aftermath / Howard McGary
  • Contesting the ambivalence and hostility to affirmative action within the black community / Luke C. Harris
  • Subsistence welfare benefits as property interests: legal theories and moral considerations / Rudolph V. Vanterpool
  • Racism and health care: a medical ethics issue / Annette Dula
  • Racialized punishment and prison abolition / Angela Y. Davis
  • The Harlem renaissance and philosophy / Leonard Harris
  • Critical theory, aesthetics, and black modernity / Lorenzo C. Simpson
  • Black cinema and aesthetics / Clyde R. Taylor
  • Thanatic pornography, interracial rape, and the Ku Klux Klan / T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting
  • Lynching and burning rituals in African American literature / Trudier Harris-Lopez
  • Rap as art and philosophy / Richard Shusterman
  • Microphone commandos: rap music and political ideology / Bill E. Lawson
  • Sports, political philosophy, and the African American / Gerald Early.