The Quest for Community and Identity: Critical Essays in Africana Social PhilosophyRobert E. Birt Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 - 291 pages This collection of essays engages two of the most fundamental social and political issues of our time: community and identity. Wrestling with the perplexities of these two issues within the Africana world, the contributors delve into the influences of a postmodern world of globalization with outdated, crumbling forms of identity and sociality. In the wake of such an order, new forms of identity and community must be established. Birt has collected an informed group of contributors here, who lay the foundation for a new approach to finding community and identity in the Africana world. |
Contents
Racism Historical Ruins and the Task of Identity Formation | 15 |
To Be or Not to Be Black Problematics of Racial Identity | 29 |
Postmodernism Narrative and the Question of Black Identity | 45 |
Du Bois and Appiah The Politics of Race and Racial Identity | 73 |
In Quest of Community Sociality and Situated Freedom | 85 |
Of the Quest for Freedom As Community | 87 |
Sociality and Community in Black A Phenomenological Essay | 105 |
Historical Crises of Identity and Community | 125 |
Commodification and Existence in African American Communities | 185 |
Liberalism Postmodernism and the Quest for Community | 209 |
Black Philosophy As a Challenge to Liberalism | 211 |
Democracy Transitional Justice and Postcolonial African Communities | 229 |
Community What Type of Entity and What Type of Moral Commitment? | 243 |
Theorizing Black Community | 257 |
Selected Bibliography | 285 |
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Visions of Transcendent Community in the Works of Toni Morrison | 127 |
Paulette Nardal Race Consciousness and Antillean Letters | 143 |
The Revival of Black Nationalism and the Crisis of Liberal Universalism | 159 |
About the Contributors | 289 |
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