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