The Quest for Community and Identity
Critical Essays in Africana Social Philosophy
The Quest for Community and Identity
Critical Essays in Africana Social Philosophy
Description
This collection of essays engages two of the most fundamental social and political issues of our time: community and identity. Wrestling with the perplexities of these two issues within the Africana world, the contributors delve into the influences of a postmodern world of globalization with outdated, crumbling forms of identity and sociality. In the wake of such an order, new forms of identity and community must be established. Birt has collected an informed group of contributors here, who lay the foundation for a new approach to finding community and identity in the Africana world.
Table of Contents
Part 1 Part 1:Exploring Perplexities of Identity
Chapter 2 1. Racism, Historical Ruins, and the Task of Identity Formation
Chapter 3 2. To Be or Not to Be Black: Problematics of Racial Identity
Chapter 4 3. Postmodernism, Narrative, and the Question of Black Identity
Chapter 5 4. Du Bois and Appiah: The Politics of Race and Racial Identity
Part 6 Part 2:In Quest of Community: Sociality and Situated Freedom
Chapter 7 5. Of the Quest for Freedom As Community
Chapter 8 6. Sociality and Community in Black: A Phenomenological Essay
Part 9 Part 3:Historical Crises of Identity and Community
Chapter 10 7. Visions of Transcendent Community in the Works of Toni Morrison
Chapter 11 8. Paulette Nardal, Race Consciousness, and Antillean Letters
Chapter 12 9. The Revival of Black Nationalism and the Crisis of Liberal Universalism
Chapter 13 10. Commodification and Existence in African American Communities
Part 14 Part 4:Liberalism, Postmodernism, and the Quest for Community
Chapter 15 11. Black Philosophy As a Challenge to Liberalism
Chapter 16 12. Democracy, Transitional Justice, and Postcolonial African Communities
Chapter 17 13. Community: What Type of Entity and What Type of Moral Commitment?
Chapter 18 14 Theorizing Black Community
Chapter 2 1. Racism, Historical Ruins, and the Task of Identity Formation
Chapter 3 2. To Be or Not to Be Black: Problematics of Racial Identity
Chapter 4 3. Postmodernism, Narrative, and the Question of Black Identity
Chapter 5 4. Du Bois and Appiah: The Politics of Race and Racial Identity
Part 6 Part 2:In Quest of Community: Sociality and Situated Freedom
Chapter 7 5. Of the Quest for Freedom As Community
Chapter 8 6. Sociality and Community in Black: A Phenomenological Essay
Part 9 Part 3:Historical Crises of Identity and Community
Chapter 10 7. Visions of Transcendent Community in the Works of Toni Morrison
Chapter 11 8. Paulette Nardal, Race Consciousness, and Antillean Letters
Chapter 12 9. The Revival of Black Nationalism and the Crisis of Liberal Universalism
Chapter 13 10. Commodification and Existence in African American Communities
Part 14 Part 4:Liberalism, Postmodernism, and the Quest for Community
Chapter 15 11. Black Philosophy As a Challenge to Liberalism
Chapter 16 12. Democracy, Transitional Justice, and Postcolonial African Communities
Chapter 17 13. Community: What Type of Entity and What Type of Moral Commitment?
Chapter 18 14 Theorizing Black Community
Product details
| Published | 20 Dec 2001 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 304 |
| ISBN | 9781461715030 |
| Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Series | New Critical Theory |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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