Reframing the practice of philosophy : bodies of color, bodies of knowledge /

Reflections by leading Latin American and African American philosophers on their identity within the field of philosophy. This daring and bold book is the first to create a textual space where African American and Latin American philosophers voice the complex range of their philosophical and meta-ph...

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Other Authors: Yancy, George
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, c2012.
Series:SUNY series, philosophy and race.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Inappropriate philosophical subjects? / George Yancy
  • Alien and alienated / Linda Martín Alcoff
  • Philosophy raced, philosophy erased / Charles W. Mills
  • Attracting Latinos/as to philosophy: today's challenges / Ofelia Schutte
  • Philosophical canons and philosophical traditions: the case of Latin American philosophy / Jorge J. E. Gracia
  • Metaphilosophical internalism and the possibility of a distinctive Latin American philosophy / Jesús H. Aguilar
  • On the politics of professional philosophy: the plight of the African-American philosopher / John H. McClendon III
  • Migrant, migra, mongrel: the Latin American dishwasher, busboy, and colored/ethnic/diversity (philosophy) hire / Eduardo Mendieta
  • Why are Hispanic philosophers marginalized in the American philosophical community? / Gregory Fernando Pappas
  • Philosophical playa hatin': race, respect, and the philosophy game / Bill E. Lawson
  • Toward a place where I can bring all of me: identity formation and philosophy / Jacqueline Scott
  • Re-reading Plato's Symposium through the lens of a Black woman / Donna-Dale Marcano
  • Defending gender and ethnic philosophies / Oscar R. Martí
  • Thinking at the limits of philosophy and doing philosophy elsewhere: from philosophy to decolonial thinking / Nelson Maldonado-Torres
  • Thinking through the Americas today: a philosophical perspective / Lewis R. Gordon
  • The social ontology of African American languaging, the power of Nommo, and the dynamics of resistance and identity through language / George Yancy
  • Language, power, and philosophy: some comments on the exclusion of Spanish from the philosophical canon / Elizabeth Millán
  • Linguistic hegemony and linguistic resistance: English, Spanish, and American philosophy / José Medina.