George Yancy 
Reframing the Practice of Philosophy [EPUB ebook] 
Bodies of Color, Bodies of Knowledge

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-philosophical concerns, approaches, and visions. The voices within this book protest and theorize from their own standpoints, delineating the specific existential, philosophical, and professional problems they face as minority philosophical voices.

Table des matières

Acknowledgments



Introduction: Inappropriate Philosophical Subjects?


George Yancy


PART I: Colonization/Decolonization: Philosophy and Canon Formation



1. Alien and Alienated


Linda Martín Alcoff

2. Philosophy Raced, Philosophy Erased


Charles Mills

3. Attracting Latinos/as to Philosophy: Today’s Challenges


Ofelia Schutte

4. Philosophical Canons and Philosophical Traditions: The Case of Latin American Philosophy


Jorge J. E. Gracia

5. Metaphilosophical Internalism and the Possibility of a Distinctive Latin American Philosophy


Jesús H. Aguilar


PART II: Racism, the Academy, and the Practice of Philosophy



6. On the Politics of Professional Philosophy: The Plight of the African-American Philosopher


John H. Mc Clendon III



7. Migrant, Migra, Mongrel: The Latin American Dishwasher, Busboy, and Colored/Ethnic/Diversity (Philosophy) Hire


Eduardo Mendieta

8. Why Are Hispanic Philosophers Marginalized in the American Philosophical Community?


Gregory Fernando Pappas

9. Philosophical Playa Hatin’: Race, Respect, and the Philosophy Game


Bill E. Lawson


PART III: Gender, Ethnicity, and Race



10. Toward a Place Where I Can Bring All of Me: Identity Formation and Philosophy


Jacqueline Scott

11. Re-Reading Plato’s
Symposium through the Lens of a Black Woman


Donna-Dale Marcano

12. Defending Gender and Ethnic Philosophies


Oscar R. Martí


PART IV: Philosophy and the Geopolitics of Knowledge Production



13. Thinking at the Limits of Philosophy and Doing Philosophy Elsewhere: From Philosophy to Decolonial Thinking


Nelson Maldonado-Torres

14. Thinking Through the Americas Today: A Philosophical Perspective


Lewis R. Gordon


PART V: Philosophy, Language, and Hegemony



15. Geneva Smitherman: The Social Ontology of African-American Languaging, the Power of
Nommo, and the Dynamics of Resistance and Identity Through Language


George Yancy

16. Language, Power, and Philosophy: Some Comments on the Exclusion of Spanish from the Philosophical Canon


Elizabeth Millan-Zaibert

17. Linguistic Hegemony and Linguistic Resistance: English, Spanish, and American Philosophy


José Medina

Contributor Notes

Index

A propos de l’auteur

George Yancy is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Duquesne University. His many books include
Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race.