Research Catalog

Title

I am because we are : readings in Black philosophy / edited with an introduction by Fred Lee Hord (Mzee Lasana Okpara), and Jonathan Scott Lee.

Publication

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [1995]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hord, Fred L.
• Lee, Jonathan Scott

Description

x, 390 pages; 25 cm

Summary

"This anthology of writings by prominent black thinkers from antiquity to the present makes the case for a central tradition of black philosophy, rooted in Africa and distinct from the intellectual heritage of the West."--From publisher description.

Alternative Title

• Readings in Black philosophy
• Black philosophy

Subjects

• Philosophy, Black
• Blacks > Race identity
• Social groups > Philosophy
• Identity (Philosophical concept)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-390).

Contents

Introduction: "I am because we are" : an introduction to Black philosophy / Fred Lee Hord (Mzee Lasana Okpara) and Jonathan Scott Lee -- 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 -- 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 -- The call of providence in the descendant of Africa in America / Edward W. Blyden -- Africa for the Africans / Marcus Garvey -- The future as I see it / Marcus Garvey -- from So uncle said / Jean Price-Mars -- 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 -- Orantion, 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. DuBois -- On being ashamed of oneself : an essay on race pride / W.E.B. DuBois -- The concept of race / W.E.B. DeBois -- The new Negro / Alain Locke -- Speech on "Black revolution" (New York, April 8, 1964) / Malcolm X -- Black power / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- 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 -- The Afrocentric idea of education / Molefi Kete Asante -- Learning to talk of race / Cornel West -- The Black underclass and Black philosophers / Cornel West -- Postmodernism and utopia, an unholy alliance / Leonard Harris.

Call Number

Sc E 95-724

ISBN

• 0870239643
• 9780870239649
• 0870239651
• 9780870239656

LCCN

95001249

OCLC

32049750

Title

I am because we are : readings in Black philosophy / edited with an introduction by Fred Lee Hord (Mzee Lasana Okpara), and Jonathan Scott Lee.

Publisher

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [1995]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-390).

Added Author

Hord, Fred L., editor, writer of introduction.

Lee, Jonathan Scott, editor, writer of introduction.

Research Call Number

Sc E 95-724