Existentia Africana: Understanding Africana Existential Thought

✍ Scribed by Lewis R. Gordon

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 241
• Series: Africana Thought
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The intellectual history of the last quarter of the 20th century has been marked by the growing influence of Africana thought - an area of philosophy that focuses on issues raised by the struggle over ideas in African cultures and their hybrid forms in Europe, the Americas and the Caribbean. This book presents an introduction to the field of Africana philosophy and aims to help define this rapidly growing field. Lewis R. Gordon introduces and discusses Africana existential thought for a general audience, covering a range of both classic and contemporary thinkers - from Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. DuBois to Frantz Fanon, Angela Davis and Naomi Zack.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Preface, with Acknowledgments......Page 10
Africana Philosophy of Existence......Page 14
A Problem of Biography in Africana Thought......Page 35
Frederick Douglass as an Existentialist......Page 54
What Does It Mean to Be a Problem? W. E. B. Du Bois on the Study of Black Folk......Page 75
Mixed Race in Light of Whiteness and Shadows of Blackness Naomi Zack on Mixed Race......Page 109
Can Men Worship? An Existential Portrait in Black and White......Page 131
Recent Africana Religious Thought Existential Anxieties of Pan-Africanism and Postmodernism at the End of the Twentieth Century......Page 148
Existential Borders of Anonymity and Superfluous Invisibility......Page 166
Words and Incantations Invocations and Evocations of a Wayward Traveler......Page 177
Notes......Page 194
Works Consulted......Page 200
Index......Page 230