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Creating a Black Vernacular Philosophy
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2022
Summary
Creating a Black Vernacular Philosophy explores how everyday Black vernacular practices, developed to negotiate survival and joy, can be understood as philosophy in their own right. Devonya N. Havis argues that many unique cultural and intellectual practices of African diasporic communities have done the work of traditional philosophies. Focusing on creative practices that take place within Black American diasporic cultures via narratives, the blues, jazz, work songs, and other expressive forms, this book articulates a form of Black vernacular Philosophy that is centered within and emerges from meaning structures cultivated by Black communities. These distinct philosophical practices, running parallel with and often improvising on European philosophy, should be acknowledged for their rigorous theoretical formation and for their disruption of traditional Western philosophical ontologies.
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Edition
1/2022
Copyright Year
2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-3014-9
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-3015-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
120
Product Type
Monograph
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 6
Performative Utterance No access Pages 7 - 36
How to Slip the Yoke No access Pages 37 - 50
Searching for the Black Difference No access Pages 51 - 64
A Critique of Black Philosophy No access Pages 65 - 88
No More Redemption Songs No access Pages 89 - 100
