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Existentia Africana : understanding Africana existential thought

Author: Lewis R Gordon
Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2000.
Series: Africana thought.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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The intellectual history of the last quarter of this 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. "Existentia Africana" is an engaging and highly readable introduction to the field of Africana philosophy and will help to define  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Lewis R Gordon
ISBN: 0415926432 9780415926430 0415926440 9780415926447 9780203900758 0203900758
OCLC Number: 42475626
Description: xii, 228 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Africana philosophy of existence --
A problem of biography in Africana thought --
Frederick Douglass as an existentialist --
What does it mean to be a problem? : W.E.B. Du Bois on the study of black folk --
Mixed race in light of whiteness and shadows of blackness : Naomi Zack on mixed race --
Can men worship? : an existential portrait in black and white --
Recent Africana religious thought : existential anxieties of Pan-Africanism and postmodernism at the end of the twentieth century --
Existential borders of anonymity and superfluous invisibility --
Words and incantations : invocations and evocations of a wayward traveler.
Series Title: Africana thought.
Responsibility: Lewis R. Gordon.
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The intellectual history of the last quarter of this 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. "Existentia Africana" is an engaging and highly readable introduction to the field of Africana philosophy and will help to define this rapidly growing field. Lewis R. Gordon clearly explains Africana existential thought to a general audience, covering a wide range of both classic and contemporary thinkers--from Douglass and DuBois to Fanon, Davis and Zack.

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