Lewis R Gordon, Jane Anna Gordon

Not Only the Master's Tools

African American Studies in Theory and Practice

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Produktbeschreibung

Not Only the Master's Tools: African American Studies in Theory and Practice brings together new essays on the ongoing value of black thought. In the service of what the editors call epistemological decolonization of African American studies, the first part examines the grounding of theoretical reason from various perspectives such as Africana philosophy, philosophical anthropology, and black literary theory. The second part offers theoretical explorations of practical reason as it unfolds in the study of slavery, education, queerness, politics, and ethics. Responding to Audre Lorde's famous dictum that "The Master's tools will never dismantle the Master's house," the editors and these internationally renowned scholars ask: "Why not instead devote attention to using those and other tools to build new, more open houses?"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2005
• Deutsch, Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 154mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9781594511462
• ISBN-10: 1594511462
• Artikelnr.: 21218533

Autorenporträt

Lewis R. Gordon, Jane Anna Gordon

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Lewis R. Gordon and Jane Anna Gordon Acknowledgments PART I:
The Geopoliticality of African-American Epistemic Struggles Chapter 1:
African-American Philosophy, Race, and teh Geography of Reason Lewis R.
Gordon Chapter 2: Toward a Critique of Continental Reason: Africana Studies
and the Decolonization of Imperial Cartographies in the Americas Nelson
Maldonado-Torres Chapter 3: The Idea of Post-European Science: An Essay on
Phenomenology and Africana Studies Kenneth Danziger Knies Chapter 4: On How
We Mistook the Map for the Territory, and Re-Imprisoned Ourselves in Our
Unbearable Wrongness of Being, of Desetre: Black Studies Toward the Human
Project Sylvia Wynter PART II: Transfigurations of African-American Being
and Doing Chapter 5: Pedagogy and the Philosophical Anthropology of
African-American Slave Culture Stephen Nathan Haymes Chapter 6: Double
Consciousness and the Problem of Political Legitimacy Jane Anna Gordon
Chapter 7: On the Possibilities of Posthumanism, or How to Think Queerly in
an Antiblack World David Ross Fryer Chapter 8: Philosophy in the African
Tradition of Resistance: Issues of Human Freedom and Human Flourishing
Maulana Karenga References Index About the Editors and Contributors