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Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

2015

290 Pages

ISBN 978-1-349-56873-4

African American Philosophy and the African Diaspora

Philosophy of African American studies

nothing left of blackness

Stephen C. Ferguson


Cultural idealism in various forms has become enormously influential as a framework for Black studies. Ferguson takes on the task of demonstrating how a Marxist philosophical perspective offers a productive and fruitful way of overcoming the limitations of idealism. Focusing on the hugely popular Afrocentric school of thought, this book's engaging discussion shows that the foundational arguments of cultural idealism

Publication details

DOI: 10.1057/9781137549976

Full citation:

Ferguson, S. C. (2015). Philosophy of African American studies: nothing left of blackness, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.

Table of Contents

Introduction

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1-14

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Class struggle in the ivory Towers

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15-57

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The afrocentric problematic

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59-96

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New wine in an old bottle?

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97-129

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The heritage we renounce

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131-158

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What's epistemology got to do with it?

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159-192

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