Her Majesty's Other Children

A brilliant blend of philosophy, memoir, and cultural analysis, Her Majesty's Other Children reflects Lewis Gordon's ongoing commitment to pursue critical scholarship that cuts across academic disciplines and geographic borders, straight to the heart of the urgent questions we face on the cusp of the new millennium. Without doubt, Gordon is one of the most important young intellectuals examining issues of race and gender today, and his ability to situate his reflections in an international context—at both the scholarly and personal levels, as he does here—makes his observations indispensable as we confront our collective future.

• Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Introduction: Her Majesty's Other Children Part 3 Philosophy, Race, and Racism in a Neocolonial World Chapter 4 Context: Ruminations on Violence and Anonymity Chapter 5 Fanon, Philosophy, and Racism Chapter 6 Race, Biraciality, and Mixed Race—in Theory Chapter 7 Sex, Race, and Matrices of Desire in an Antiblack World Chapter 8 Uses and Abuses of Blackness: Postmodernism, Conservatism, Ideology Chapter 9 In a Black Antiblack Philosophy Chapter 10 African Philosophy's Search for Identity: Existential Considerations of a Recent Effort Part 11 The Intellectuals Chapter 12 Lorraine Hansberry's Tragic Search for Postcoloniality: Les Blancs Chapter 13 Tragic Intellectuals on the Neocolonial—Postcolonial Divide Chapter 14 Exilic "Amateur" Speaking Truth to Power: Edward Said Chapter 15 Black Intellectuals and Academic Activism: Cornel West's "Dilemmas of the Black Intellectual." Right-Wing Celebration, Left-Wing Nightmare: Thoughts on the Centennial of Plessy v. Ferguson Part 16 Aisthesis Demokrate Chapter 17 Sketches of Jazz Chapter 18 Aesthetico-Political Reflections on the AMTRAK: Rap, Hip-Hop, and Isaac Julien's Fanon along the Northeast Line Chapter 19 Epilogue: The Lion and the Spider (An Anticolonial Tale)