I Am Because We Are: Readings in Africana Philosophy

530 Pages·2016·4.176 MB·English

by  Fred Lee Hord, Jonathan Scott Lee

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I Am BecAuse We Are
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I Am Because We Are
reAdIngs In AfrIcAnA PhIlosoPhy
Edited with Introductions by
fred lee hord (mzee lasana okpara)
and Jonathan scott lee
university of massachusetts Press
Amherst & Boston
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copyright © 2016 by university of massachusetts Press
All rights reserved
Printed in the united states of America
IsBn 978-1-62534-176-1 (paper); 175-4 (hardcover)
set in Times new roman
library of congress cataloging-in-Publication data
names: hord, fred l., editor. | lee, Jonathan scott, editor.
Title: I am because we are : readings in Black philosophy /
edited with a new introduction by fred lee hord (mzee lasana okpara)
and Jonathan scott lee.
description: revised [edition]. | Amherst : university of massachusetts Press, 2016. |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015051165| ISBN 9781625341761 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
IsBn 9781625341754 (hardcover : alk. paper)
subjects: lcsh: Blacks—race identity. | Identity (Philosophical concept) |
social groups—Philosophy. | Philosophy, Black.
Classification: LCC DT15 .I15 2016 | DDC 305.896—dc23
lc record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015051165
British library cataloguing in Publication data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British library.
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for laurel hord hill, f. mark hord, and Terri hord owens,
who keep me grounded in relational humanism.
f l h
for Peggy Berg,
in deepest gratitude for her strength,
her spirit,
and her love.
J s l
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conTenTs
Acknowledgments xi
InTroducTIons
I Am Because We Are—Twenty Years On 3
fred lee hord (mzee lasana okpara) and Jonathan scott lee
“I am because we are”: An Introduction to Black Philosophy 9
fred lee hord (mzee lasana okpara) and Jonathan scott lee
AfrIcA
Introduction 25
The Declarations of Innocence 31
The Teachings of Ptahhotep 34
An Interview with H. Odera Oruka 42
Paul mbuya Akoko
Negritude: A Humanism of the Twentieth Century 55
léopold sédar senghor
Consciencism 65
Kwame nkrumah
Ujamaa—The Basis of African Socialism 75
Julius K. nyerere
Identity and Dignity in the Context of the National
Liberation Struggle 83
Amilcar cabral
White Racism and Black Consciousness 94
steve Biko
vii
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viii contents
from Myth, Literature, and the African World 104
Wole soyinka
Feminism and Revolution 114
Awa Thíam
We Are Committed to Building a Single Nation in Our Country 128
nelson mandela
Person and Community: In Defense of Moderate
Communitarianism 136
Kwame gyekye
(Re)constituting the Cosmology and Sociocultural Institutions
of Òỵ ó-̣Yorùbá: Articulating the Yorùbá World-Sense 151
oyèrónké ̣Oyěwùmí
The cArIBBeAn
Introduction 167
Africa for the Africans 171
marcus garvey
The Future as I See It 175
marcus garvey
The Awakening of Race Consciousness among Black Students 180
Paulette nardal
The West Indian Middle Classes 186
c. l. r. James
from Discourse on Colonialism 196
Aimé césaire
Racism and Culture 206
frantz fanon
Black Power, a Basic Understanding 217
Walter rodney
The Shadow of the Whip: A Comment on Male-Female Relations
in the Caribbean 224
merle hodge
from The Racial Contract 230
charles W. mills
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