Black Existentialism and Decolonizing Knowledge: Writings of Lewis R. Gordon

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CONTENTS
PREFACE: WHY YES, WHY NOW, TO THIS PROJECT?
A POETIC FOREWORD
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION: BLACK EXISTENTIALISM AND DECOLONIZING KNOWLEDGE IN THE WORKS OF LEWIS R. GORDON
	Sayan Dey on Contextualizing Gordon’s Relevance to Decolonial Thinking in India
	Rozena Maart on Gordon’s Influence in Europe and Africa
	From the Caribbean to Palestine, Asia and the South Pacific
	About the Chapters
	Weaving the Thread
PART I BLACK EXISTENTIALISM AND AFRICAN APHILOSOPHY
	CHAPTER 1 A RECENT REFLECTION ON AFRICANA PHILOSOPHY
	CHAPTER 2 REASONING IN BLACK: AFRICANA PHILOSOPHY UNDER THE WEIGHT OF MISGUIDED REASON
	CHAPTER 3 RACE IN THE DIALECTICS OF CULTURE
	CHAPTER 4 RACISM AS A FORM OF BAD FAITH
	CHAPTER 5 CRITICAL REFLECTIONS ON THREE POPULAR TROPES IN THE STUDY OF WHITENESS
		The Notion of White “Privilege”
		Victimization as a Condition of Oppression—a Critique
		Normality and Normativity
		Social Construction of Race—a Critique
	CHAPTER 6 A PHENOMENOLOGY OF BIKO’S BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS
	CHAPTER 7 THEORY IN BLACK: TELEOLOGICAL SUSPENSIONS IN PHILOSOPHY OF CULTURE
	CHAPTER 8 SEX, RACE, AND MATRICES OF DESIRE IN AN ANTIBLACK WORLD
	CHAPTER 9 RACIALIZATION AND HUMAN REALITY
	CHAPTER 10 LETTER TO A GRIEVING STUDENT
	CHAPTER 11 ROCKIN’ IT IN BLUE: A BLACK EXISTENTIAL ESSAY ON JIMI HENDRIX
PART II DECOLONIZING KNOWLEDGE
	CHAPTER 12 DISCIPLINARY DECADENCE AND THE DECOLONIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE
	CHAPTER 13 DISCIPLINING AS A HUMAN SCIENCE
		The “Human Problem”
		Phenomenological Dialectics or Dialectical Phenomenology
		Decolonizing Disciplines
		Pedagogical Imperatives
		Disciplinary Power
		Conclusion
	CHAPTER 14 THE PROBLEM OF HISTORY IN AFRICAN AMERICAN THEOLOGY
		History
		Religion and History
		Africans in America
		Black Religions and Theology
		Concluding Considerations on Historical Redemption and Contingency
	CHAPTER 15 RARELY KOSHER: STUDYING JEWS OF COLOR IN NORTH AMERICA
	CHAPTER 16 JEWS AGAINST LIBERATION: ANAFRO-JEWISH CRITIQUE
		Afro-Jews and White Jews Reflecting on Pesach
		Why Do I Say This?
		Black Dream, White Dread
		Rejecting Idols, Embracing Ethical Life
	CHAPTER 17 LEWIS GORDON’S STATEMENT FOR JACQUELINE WALKER’S DOSSIER, 2018
	CHAPTER 18 SHIFTING THE GEOGRAPHY OF REASON IN AN AGE OF DISCIPLINARY DECADENCE
	CHAPTER 19 DECOLONIZING PHILOSOPHY
		Not Only European
		Colonial Philosophy
		Africana Philosophy
		Disciplinary Decadence
		Theodicy of Market Colonization
		Philosophical Purity
		What of Liberation?
	CHAPTER 20 A PEDAGOGICAL IMPERATIVE OF PEDAGOGICAL IMPERATIVES
	CHAPTER 21 JUSTICE OTHERWISE: THOUGHTS ON UBUNTU
		Modernity, Modernities
		Modern Ubuntu Because Ubuntu is Modern
		A Concluding Thought
	CHAPTER 22 TELEOLOGICAL SUSPENSIONS FOR THE SAKE OF POLITICAL LIFE
		Decadence, Disciplinary and Otherwise
		Rule Over Politics
		Shifting the Geography of Reason, Shifting the Geography of Action
		Concluding Remarks
	CHAPTER 23 LABOR, MIGRATION, AND RACE: TOWARD A SECULAR MODEL OF CITIZENSHIP
PART III INTERVIEWS
	CHAPTER 24 ARE REPARATIONS POSSIBLE? LESSONS TO THE UNITED STATES FROM SOUTH AFRICA
	CHAPTER 25 HISTORIES OF VIOLENCE: THINKING ART IN A DECOLONIAL WAY
	CHAPTER 26 BLACK ISSUES IN PHILOSOPHY: GORDON AND DA SILVA ON BRAZIL AND AFRICANA PHILOSOPHY
	CHAPTER 27 DOUGLA: INTERSECTIONS BETWEEN DALITNESS AND AFRO-BLACKNESS
	CHAPTER 28 FREEDOM, OPPRESSION, AND BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS IN GET OUT
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