Black Thought Matters
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-53653-1 (ISBN)
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The profound influence of Afro diasporic and African philosophy has been mostly either silenced or dismissed in Western thought. In Black Thought Matters, LaRose Parris traces the early production of philosophical thought on the African continent and in doing so disrupts the Eurocentric, hegemonic paradigm of the Enlightenment.
This book, in proclaiming that black thought matters, is an act of political and ideological defiance. It argues for Africana philosophy’s centrality to the genesis and movement of global ideas and asserts an allegiance with global liberation efforts repudiating Black dehumanization, criminalization, and extermination through state-sponsored police murder. This transnational struggle has shifted geo-political activism towards a reckoning with white supremacy’s hegemonic, anti-human agenda. What is more, affirming Black thought’s relevance announces a commitment to the import of Africana thinkers whose work laid the foundation for Black Lives Matter’s ethical and political mission: to emphasize the intrinsic value of Black life and struggle to advance a radical egalitarianism wherein all lives truly matter. To promote such egalitarianism, Africana philosophy must be embraced as indispensable to this charge since it purposefully expounds upon two of egalitarianism’s principal aims: human enlightenment and freedom.
Black Thought Matters provides the philosophical, historical, and political evidence supporting the need for widespread recognition – not wilful dismissal – of Africana thinkers’ answers to the persistent problems of epistemic erasure, unfreedom, and systemic inequality that continue to diminish the value of human life.
LaRose Parris is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Africana Studies at Lehman College, CUNY, USA. Her first book Being Apart: Theoretical and Existential Resistance in Africana Literature (2015) was awarded the Nicolás Guillén Prize for Outstanding Book in Philosophical Literature by the Caribbean Philosophical Association.
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part One: Africana philosophy, enlightenment and freedom
1. Unveiling the history of Black thought
2. Leonard Harris’s philosophy of struggle
3. Creolizing the academy
4. The Specter of Africana thought in Juliet Hooker’s Theorizing Race in the Americas
5. ‘To be young, gifted’ and woman: Reading Rosa Luxemburg through Lorraine Hansberry
and the Black Radical Tradition
Part Two: ‘Pressed to the wall but fighting back’: Dialogues in Black thought
6. Interview with Jina Fast
7. Interview with A. Shahid Stover
8. Interview with Lewis R. Gordon
References
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 20.8.2026 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-53653-9 / 1350536539 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-53653-1 / 9781350536531 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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