An Introduction to Africana Philosophy

includes index and biblioraphy

Part I Groundings
1 Africana philosophy as a modern philosophy 21
2 Classic eighteenth- and nineteenth-century foundations 33
Anton Wilhelm Amo 35
Quobna Ottobah Cugoano 40
From David Walker`s Appeal to the founding of the
American Negro Academy 46
Two Caribbean men of letters: An tenor Firmin and George Wilmot Blyden 56
Conclusion 65
Part II From New World to new worlds
3 Three pillars of African-American philosophy 69
Anna Julia Cooper and the problem of value 69
W. E. B. Du Bois and the problem of double consciousness 73
Fanon`s critique of failed dialectics of recognition 80
4 Africana philosophical movements in the United States and Britain 91
Prophetic and other recent forms of African-American pragmatism 93
Black feminist and womanist thought 100
Afrocentrism and Afrocentricity 106
African-American analytical philosophy 110
African-American and Afro-British European continental philosophy 120
Cedric Robinson`s anthropology of Marxism 128
African-American existential philosophy, phenomenology,and their influence 132
5 Afro-Caribbean philosophy 157
6 African philosophy 185
African humanism 186
The theme of invention in recent African philosophy 195
African critiques of invention 200
Recent African political thought 220