| Postmodern Racial Dialectics: Philosophy Beyond the Pale Contributor(s): Jones, Richard A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0761869484 ISBN-13: 9780761869481 Publisher: Hamilton Books OUR PRICE: $50.48 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Social - Literary Collections | African - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.95 lbs) 280 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Topical - Black History - Cultural Region - African |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Postmodern Racial Dialectics is a collection of ten essays on African American philosophy. Addressing issues as disparate as why there are no graduate programs in philosophy at the more than one hundred traditionally black colleges and universities in the U.S.-to conceptions of Black utopianism-to the nature of postmodern revolutions, these essays are beyond the bounds of traditional racial discourse. The essays are dialectical in the sense that they are conversations between personal histories, between ideologies, and between changing ways that the races talk to one another. The book is postmodern in that it is beyond modernity's linear logic. Postmodern Racial Dialectics is also a political entreaty for African Americans to be wary of conventional ways of thinking, and to begin thinking transgressively beyond narrowly prescribed conceptions from both sides of the color line. |