Keeping faith philosophy and race in America

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The new cultural politics of difference -- Black critics and the pitfalls of canon formation -- A note on race and architecture -- Horace Pippin's challenge to art criticism -- The dilemma of the Black intellectual -- Theory, pragmatisms, and politics -- Pragmatism and the sense of the tragic -- The historicist turn in philosophy of religion -- The limits of neopragmatism -- On Georg Lukács -- Fredric Jameson's American Marxism -- Reassessing the critical legal studies movement -- Critical legal studies and a liberal critic -- Charles Taylor and the critical legal studies movement -- The role of law in progressive politics -- Race and social theory -- The paradox of the African American rebellion.