| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 228 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Africana thought
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Africana thought.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-215) and index. |
| Contents |
1. Africana philosophy of existence -- 2. A problem of biography in Africana thought -- 3. Frederick Douglass as an existentialist -- 4. What does it mean to be a problem? : W.E.B. Du Bois on the study of black folk -- 5. Mixed race in light of whiteness and shadows of blackness : Naomi Zack on mixed race -- 6. Can men worship? : an existential portrait in black and white -- 7. Recent Africana religious thought : existential anxieties of pan-Africanism and postmodernism at the end of the twentieth century -- 8. Existential borders of anonymity and superfluous invisibility -- 9. Words and incantations invocations : and evocations of a wayward traveler. |
| Summary |
Annotation is an engaging and highly readable introduction to the field of Africana philosophy and will help to define this rapidly growing field. Lewis R. Gordon clearly explains Africana existential thought to a general audience, covering a wide range of both classic and contemporary thinkers--from Douglass and DuBois to Fanon, Davis and Zack. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
African American philosophy.
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African American philosophy. |
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Existentialism.
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Existentialism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gordon, Lewis R. (Lewis Ricardo), 1962- Existentia Africana. New York : Routledge, 2000 0415926432 (DLC) 99047909 (OCoLC)42475626 |
| ISBN |
0203900758 (electronic book) |
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9780203900758 (electronic book) |
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9780415926430 (alkaline paper) |
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0415926432 (alkaline paper) |
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9780415926447 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0415926440 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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