Title: A companion to African-American philosophy /
Authors: Lott, Tommy Lee, 1946-; Pittman, John P.; Davis, Angela Y. 1944-
Publisher: Blackwell,
Year: 2003
Subjects: African American philosophy.; Philosophie noire américaine.; African American philosophy; Afrikaanse filosofie.; Slavernij.; Rassendiscriminatie.; Esthetica.; Philosophie; Rassenfrage; Schwarze; USA; Schwarze.; USA.
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.