Notes on Contributors. Preface. Acknowledgements. Part I: Philosophic Traditions:Introduction. 1. Philosophy and the Afro-American Experience: Cornel West (Harvard University). 2. African-American Existential Philosophy: Lewis R.
Gordon (Brown University). 3. African-American Philosophy: A Caribbean Perspective: Paget Henry (Brown University). 4. Modernisms in Black: Frank M. Kirkland (City University of New York). 5. The Crisis of the Black Intellectual: Hortense J.
Spillers (Cornell University). Part II: The Moral and Political Legacy of Slavery:Introduction. 6. Kant and Knowledge of Disappearing Expression: Ronald A. T. Judy (University of Pittsburgh). 7. Social Contract Theory, Slavery, and the Antebellum Courts: Anita L.
Allen (University of Pennsylvania) and Thaddeus Pope. 8. The Morality of Reparations II: Bernard R. Boxill (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill). Part III: Africa and Diaspora Thought:Introduction. 9. "Afrocentricity ": Critical Considerations: Lucius T. Outlaw, Jr.
(Vanderbilt University). 10. African Retentions: Tommy L. Lott (San Jose State University). 11. African Philosophy at the Turn of the Century: Albert G. Mosley (Smith College). Part IV: Gender, Race, and Racism:Introduction.
12. Some Group Matters: Intersectionality, Situated Standpoints, and Black Feminist Thought: Patricia Hill Collins (University of Cincinnati). 13. Radicalizing Feminisms from "The Movement Era ": Joy A. James (Brown University). 14. Philosophy and Racial Paradigms: Naomi Zack (University of Oregon). 15.
Racial Classification and Public Policy: David Theo Goldberg (University of California, Irvine). 16. White Supremacy: Charles W. Mills (University of Illinois at Chicago). Part V: Legal and Social Philosophy:Introduction. 17. Self-Respect, Fairness, and Living Morally: Laurence M. Thomas (Syracuse University).
18. The Legacy of Plessy v. Ferguson: Michele Moody-Adams (Cornell University). 19. Some Reflections on the Brown Decision and Its Aftermath: Howard McGary (Rutgers University). 20. Contesting the Ambivalence and Hostility to Affirmative Action within the Black Community: Luke C. Harris (Vassar College).
21. Subsistence Welfare Benefits as Property Interests: Legal Theories and Moral Considerations: Rudolph V. Vanterpool (California State University, Dominquez Hills). 22. Racism and Health Care: A Medical Ethics Issue: Annette Dula. 23. Racialized Punishment and Prison Abolition: Angela Y. Davis (University of California, Santa Cruz).
Part VI: Aesthetic And Cultural Values:Introduction. 24. The Harlem Renaissance and Philosophy: Leonard Harris (Purdue University). 25. Critical Theory, Aesthetics, and Black Modernity: Lorenzo C. Simpson (State University of New York at Stony Brook). 26. Black Cinema and Aesthetics: Clyde Taylor (New York University).
27. Thanatic Pornography, Interracial Rape, and the Ku Klux Klan: T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting (Purdue University). 28. Lynching and Burning Rituals in African-American Literature: Trudier Harris-Lopez(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). 29. Rap as Art and Philosophy: Richard Shusterman (Temple University). 30.
Microphone Commandos: Rap Music and Political Ideology: Bill E. Lawson (Michigan State University) 31. Sports, Political Philosophy, and the African American: Gerald Early (Washington University). Index.