Decolonizing American Philosophy

Contents
Introduction
	Notes
Part One: The Terms of Decolonization
	Chapter 1 Culture, Acquisitiveness, and Decolonial Philosophy
		Colonial Acquisitiveness and Imperialism
		Decolonization
		Shedding Colonial Baggage
		Notes
	Chapter 2 Without Land, Decolonizing American Philosophy Is Impossible
		A Note about Land
		Indigenous Decolonizing Traditions
		Land and Decolonization Today
		The Settler Structure of American Philosophy
		Conclusion: Without Land, No Decolonization
		Notes
	Chapter 3 Decolonizing the West
		Place and Project
		Limits and Possibilities in the Decolony
		Sounds of Worldmaking
		Deprojecting the West
		Notes
Part Two: Decolonizing the American Canon
	Chapter 4 Enlightened Readers: Thomas Jefferson, Immanuel Kant, Jorge Juan, and Antonio de Ulloa
		We Are What We Read
		Jefferson: The Father and Librarian of the New Republic
		The Science of Liberty: Juan and Ulloa’s Reporting on the Conditions of the Spanish Colonies
		Kant’s (Un)critical Reading
		Conclusion: On the Generosity of the Reader
		Notes
	Chapter 5 Writing Loss: On Emerson, Du Bois, and America
		The First-Person Political: American Genealogies, Heroic Representation, and the Question of Decolonization
		Two Scenes of Loss: How Emerson and Du Bois Represent the Experience of Grief and the Idea of America
		Conclusion: A Politics of Loss?
		Note
	Chapter 6 Latina Feminist Engagements with US Pragmatism: Interrogating Identity, Realism, and Representation
		Latina Feminist Engagement with US Pragmatism
		Latina Feminist Decolonial Theorizing
		Notes
	Chapter 7 Dewey, Wynter, and Césaire: Race, Colonialism, and “The Science of the Word”
		Pragmatism’s Colonial Legacy
		Notes
Part Three: Expanding the American Canon
	Chapter 8 The Social Ontology of Care among Filipina Dependency Workers: Kittay, Addams, and a Transnational Doulia Ethics of Care
		Examining the Social Role of the Doulia Principle
		Addams and the Social Ethics of Dependency
		Affectionate Interpretation and Sympathetic Understanding as a Public Ethos of Care
		Affectionate Interpretation as a Transnational Public Ethos of Care
		Toward a Transnational Doulia Principle: Making Visible Transnational Responsibilities
		Notes
	Chapter 9 Creolization and Playful Sabotage at the Brink of Politics in Earl Lovelace’s The Dragon Can’t Dance
		Creolization as Bricolage
		Creolization as a Liminal Dialectic
		Creolization as Carnival/Play
		Dancing the Dragon on the Brink of Politics
		Concluding Remarks
		Notes
	Chapter 10 Decolonizing Mariátegui as a Prelude to Decolonizing Latin American Philosophy
		The Genealogy of Mariátegui’s Thought: Sorelian Marxism and Peruvian Indigenism
		Decolonizing Strategies and Tools in Mariátegui’s Works
		Reading Mariátegui through a Decolonial Lens
		Achieving and Transcending Mariátegui’s Decolonial Project
		Conclusion
		Notes
	Chapter 11 Distal versus Proximal: Howard Thurman’s Jesus and the Disinherited as a Proximal Epistemology
		Background
		Value of Knowledge
		Distal versus Proximal
		Thurman’s Framework and Method of Interrogation
		Thurman’s Interrogation of the Perceptual Framework
		Conclusion
		Notes
Contributors
Index