African-American Perspectives and Philosophical Traditions

John Pittman teaches at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at CUNY.

• CONTENTS: SECTION ONE: PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITIONS: 1. African-American Philosophy? - K. Anthony Appia; 2. African Philosophical Tradition: A Case Study of Akan - Kwasi Wiredu; 3. African, African American, Africana Philosophy - Lucius Outlaw; 4. The Horror of Tradition or How to burn Babylon and Build Benin While Reading A Preface to a Twenty-Volume Suicide Note - Leonard Harris; SECTION TWO: THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN TRADITION: 5. Two Traditions in African American Political Philosophy - Bernard Boxill; 6. Modernity and Intellectual Life in Black - Frank M. Kirkland; 7. Du Bois on the Invention of Race - Tommy L. Lott; SECTION THREE: RACISM, IDENTITY, AND SOCIAL LIFE: 8. Xenophobia and Kantian Rationalism - Adrian M.S. Piper; 9. Moral Deference - Laurence Thomas; 10. Race, Class, and the Social Construction of Self-Respect - Michele M. Moody-Adams; 11. The Role Model Argument and Faculty Diversity - Anita L. Allen; 12. Alienation and the African-American Experience - Howard McGary