Devonya N. Havis

Creating a Black Vernacular Philosophy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how vernacular practices created within Black American diasporic cultures via narratives, the blues, jazz, work songs, and other expressive forms, can be understood as philosophy in their own right.

Produktdetails

• Philosophy of Race
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 342g
• ISBN-13: 9781498530149
• ISBN-10: 1498530141
• Artikelnr.: 65695499

Autorenporträt

Devonya N. Havis is associate professor of philosophy at Canisius College and the University at Buffalo.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: Performative Utterance
Chapter 2: How to Slip the Yoke: The Black (W)Hole Ritual
Chapter 3: Searching for the Black Difference: Black Philosophy and
Redemption Songs
Chapter 4: A Critique of Black Philosophy: Rethinking Black Philosophical
Re-appropriations of Humanism
Chapter 5: No More Redemption Songs: The Black Difference and Alterity
Conclusion