Philosophy of African American studies : : Nothing Left of Blackness / / Stephen C. Ferguson II.

"What should be the philosophical basis for African American Studies? In this groundbreaking book, Stephen C. Ferguson addresses a seminal question often ignored. Philosophy and African American Studies explores philosophical issues and problems in their relationship to Black Studies. He shows...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2015.
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:African American Philosophy and the African Diaspora
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Physical Description:1 online resource (301 pages)
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Table of Contents:
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  • Introduction
  • 1. Class Struggle in the Ivory Towers: Revisiting the Birth of Black Studies in '68
  • 2. The Afrocentric Problematic: The Quest for Particularity and the Negation of Objectivity
  • 3. Old Wine in a New Bottle? The Critique of Eurocentrism in Marima Ani's Yurugu
  • 4. The Heritage we Renounce: The Utopian Worldview of Afrocentricity
  • 5. What's Epistemology Got to do with it?: The 'Death of Epistemology' in African American Studies
  • Bibliography.