I am because we are : readings in Africana philosophy

I am because we are : readings in Africana philosophy /

First published in 1995, I Am Because We Are has been recognized as a major, canon-defining anthology and adopted as a text in a wide variety of college and university courses. Bringing together writings by prominent black thinkers from Africa, the Caribbean, and North America, Fred Lee Hord and Jon...

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Online Access: Access full-text online via JSTOR
Other authors / contributors: Lee, Jonathan Scott (Editor), Hord, Fred L. (Editor)
Edition:Revised edition.
Imprint: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2016]
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Subjects:
Black people > Race identity.
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Social groups > Philosophy.
Philosophy, Black.
Philosophy, African.
Table of Contents:
  • Introductions. I am because we are-twenty years on / Fred Lee Hord, Jonathan Scott Lee
  • "I am because we are" : an introduction to Black philosophy / Fred Lee Hord, Jonathan Scott Lee
  • Africa. 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
  • White racism and Black consciousness / Steve Biko
  • 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
  • Person and community : in defense of moderate communitarianism / Kwame Gyekye
  • (Re)constituting the cosmology and sociocultural institutions of Òyó-Yorùbá : articulating the Yorùbá world-sense / Oyeronke Oyewùmi
  • The Caribbean. Africa for the Africans / Marcus Garvey
  • The future as I see it / Marcus Garvey
  • The awakening of race consciousness among Black students / Paulette Nardal
  • 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
  • from The racial contract / Charles W. Mills
  • The general character of Afro-Caribbean philosophy / Paget Henry
  • On how we mistook the map for the territory, and reimprisoned ourselves in our unbearable wrongness of being, of Desêtre : Black studies toward the human project / Sylvia Wynter
  • Reasoning in Black : Africana philosophy under the weight of misguided reason / Lewis R. Gordon
  • North America. Oration, 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. Du Bois
  • On being ashamed of oneself : an essay on race pride / W.E.B. Du Bois
  • The concept of race / W.E.B. Du Bois
  • The new Negro / Alain Locke
  • Speech on "Black Revolution" (New York, April 8, 1964) / Malcolm X
  • Black power / Martin Luther King Jr
  • Rootedness : the ancestor as foundation / Toni Morrison
  • 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
  • Learning to talk of race / Cornel West
  • The Black underclass and Black philosophers / Cornel West
  • Black solidarity after Black power / Tommie Shelby
  • The eschatological dilemma : the problem of studying the Black male only as the deaths that result from Anti-Black racism / Tommy J. Curry.

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