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…mehr
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?"
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
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
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