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Author:
Havis, Devonya N., author.
Title:
Creating a Black vernacular philosophy / Devonya N. Havis.
Publisher:
Lexington Books,
Copyright Date:
2023
Description:
viii, 119 pages ; 24 cm.
Subject:
African Americans--Philosophy.--Philosophy.
Black people--Philosophy.--Philosophy.
African Americans--Social conditions.
African Americans--Intellectual life.
African diaspora--Philosophy.
African American philosophy.
Black English--Philosophy.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Performative utterance -- How to slip the yoke: the Black (w)hole ritual -- Searching for the Black difference: Black philosophy and redemption songs -- A critique of Black philosophy: rethinking Black philosophical re-appropriations of humanism -- No more redemption songs: the Black difference and alterity.
Summary:
"This book explores how vernacular practices created within Black American diasporic cultures via narratives, the blues, jazz, work songs, and other expressive forms, can be understood as philosophy in their own right"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Philosophy of race
ISBN:
1498530141
9781498530149
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1349652217
LCCN:
2022042780
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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