I am because we are : readings in Africana philosophy / edited with introductions by Fred Lee Hord (Mzee Lasana Okpara) and Jonathan Scott Lee.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed August 28, 2017).

Introductions. I am because we are-twenty years on / Fred Lee Hord, Jonathan Scott Lee -- "I am because we are" : an introduction to Black philosophy / Fred Lee Hord, Jonathan Scott Lee -- Africa. The declarations of innocence -- The teachings of Ptahhotep -- An interview with H. Odera Oruka / Paul Mbuya Akoko -- Negritude : a humanism of the twentieth century / Léopold Sédar Senghor -- Consciencism / Kwame Nkrumah -- Ujamaa-the basis of African socialism / Julius K. Nyerere -- Identity and dignity in the context of the national liberation struggle / Amilcar Cabral -- White racism and Black consciousness / Steve Biko -- from Myth, literature, and the African world / Wole Soyinka -- Feminism and revolution / Awa Thiam -- We are committed to building a single nation in our country / Nelson Mandela -- Person and community : in defense of moderate communitarianism / Kwame Gyekye -- (Re)constituting the cosmology and sociocultural institutions of Òyó-Yorùbá : articulating the Yorùbá world-sense / Oyeronke Oyewùmi -- The Caribbean. Africa for the Africans / Marcus Garvey -- The future as I see it / Marcus Garvey -- The awakening of race consciousness among Black students / Paulette Nardal -- The West Indian middle classes / C.L.R. James -- From discourse on colonialism / Aimé Césaire -- Racism and culture / Frantz Fanon -- Black power, a basic understanding / Walter Rodney -- The shadow of the whip : a comment on male-female relations in the Caribbean / Merle Hodge -- from The racial contract / Charles W. Mills -- The general character of Afro-Caribbean philosophy / Paget Henry -- On how we mistook the map for the territory, and reimprisoned ourselves in our unbearable wrongness of being, of Desêtre : Black studies toward the human project / Sylvia Wynter -- Reasoning in Black : Africana philosophy under the weight of misguided reason / Lewis R. Gordon -- North America. Oration, delivered in Corinthian Hall, Rochester, July 5, 1852 / Frederick Douglass -- The relations and duties of free colored men in America to Africa / Alexander Crummell -- Womanhood : a vital element in the regeneration and progress of a race / Anna Julia Cooper -- The Atlanta exposition address / Booker T. Washington -- Does race antipathy serve any good purpose? / W.E.B. Du Bois -- On being ashamed of oneself : an essay on race pride / W.E.B. Du Bois -- The concept of race / W.E.B. Du Bois -- The new Negro / Alain Locke -- Speech on "Black Revolution" (New York, April 8, 1964) / Malcolm X -- Black power / Martin Luther King Jr -- Rootedness : the ancestor as foundation / Toni Morrison -- Radical perspectives on the empowerment of Afro-American women : lessons for the 1980s / Angela Y. Davis -- Philosophy, ethnicity, and race / Lucius Outlaw -- Feminism : a transformational politic / bell hooks -- Learning to talk of race / Cornel West -- The Black underclass and Black philosophers / Cornel West -- Black solidarity after Black power / Tommie Shelby -- The eschatological dilemma : the problem of studying the Black male only as the deaths that result from Anti-Black racism / Tommy J. Curry.

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