Philosophizing the Americas establishes the field of inter-American philosophy. Bringing together contributors who work in Africana Philosophy, Afro-Caribbean philosophy, Latin American philosophy, Afro-Latin philosophy, decolonial theory, and African American philosophy, the volume examines the full range of traditions that have, separately and in conversation with each other, worked through how philosophy in both establishes itself in the Americas and engages with the world from which it emerges. The book traces a range of questions, from the history of philosophy in the Americas to philosophical questions of race, feminism, racial eliminativism, creolization, epistemology, coloniality, aesthetics, and literature. The essays place an impressive range of philosophical traditions and figures into dialogue with one another: some familiar, such as Jose Marti, Sylvia Wynter, Martin R. Delany, Jose Vasconcelos, Alain Locke, as well as such less familiar thinkers as Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, Hilda Hilst, and George Lamming. In each chapter, the contributors find fascinating and productive matrices of tension or convergence in works throughout the Americas. The result is an original and important contribution to knowledge that introduces readers from various disciplines to unfamiliar yet compelling ideas and considers familiar texts from novel and prescient perspectives. Philosophizing the Americas stands alone as a representation of current scholarly debates in the field of inter-American philosophy. Contributors: Stephanie Rivera Berruz, Jacoby Adeshei Carter, Nadia Celis, Tommy J. Curry, Hernando A. Estevez, Daniel Fryer, James B. Haile III, Chike Jeffers, Lee A. McBride III, Michael Monahan, Eliana Diaz Munoz, Adriana Novoa, Susana Nuccetelli, Andrea J. Pitts, Dwayne A. Tunstall, and Alejandro A. Vallega
Jacoby Adeshei Carter (Edited By) Jacoby Adeshei Carter is an associate professor of philosophy, and chair of the Department of Philosophy at Howard University. He is the director of the Alain Leroy Locke Society, author of African American Contributions to the Americas' Cultures: Lectures by Alain Locke and co-editor of Philosophic Values and World Citizenship: Locke to Obama and Beyond and Insurrectionist Ethics: Radical Perspectives on Social Justice. He is also series editor of African American Philosophy and the African Diaspora, published by Palgrave/Macmillan. Hernando Arturo Estevez (Edited By) Hernando A. Estevez was educated at DePaul University and Indiana University. He works on Latin American philosophy, political philosophy and continental philosophy. He is currently chair and professor of the Department of Philosophy, Arts and Literature, and former Dean of the School of Philosophy at Universidad de La Salle in Bogota. Hernando is the editor and contributor of Teaching to Discern: forming connections, decolonizing perspectives (Bogota: Ediciones UniSalle, 2019).
Introduction: Prolegomena to Inter-American Philosophy Jacoby Adeshei Carter 1 PART I -INTER-AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY: THEORIZING THE AMERICAS 1 Inter-American Philosophy: Born of Struggle? Daniel Fryer 11 2 Bringing Africa to the Americas: The Creolizing of Afro-Caribbean Philosophy Chike Jeffers 28 PART II -INTER-AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY OF INDEPENDENCE AND STATE FORMATION 3 The 1812 Constitution of Cadiz: From Colonialism to Independence Hernando A. Estevez 49 4 Martin Delany and Jose Marti: Two Thinkers, Two Cubas Dwayne A. Tunstall 68 PART III -INTER-AMERICAN HISTORICISM 5 Illuminated in Black: Arturo Alfonso Schomburg's Revolt against Colonial Historicization-An Anti-Colonial Reflection on the Philosophy of (Black) History Tommy J. Curry 93 6 Chaos in the House of Reason: Positivism in the Americas, 1780-1900 Adriana Novoa 117 PART IV -CURRENT TRENDS AND FUTURE POSSIBILITIES 7 Latin American Philosophy Has No Quine, So What? Susana Nuccetelli 147 8 Latin American Thought as a Path toward Philosophizing from Radical Exteriority Alejandro A. Vallega 162 9 Afro-American Writing: Motifs of Place James B. Haile, III 193 PART V -INTER-AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY OF RACE 10 Alain Locke, Jose Vasconcelos, and Jose Marti, on Race, Nationality, and Cosmopolitanism Jacoby Adeshei Carter 235 11 Reason, Race, and the Human Project: Sylvia Winter, Sociogenesis, and Philosophy in the Americas Michael Monahan 261 12 Race, Multiplicity, and Impure Coalitions of Resistance Lee A. McBride, III 284 PART VI -INTER-AMERICAN FEMINISM 13 La Negra's Provocation: Corporeal Consciousness in Nuestra Senora de la Noche by Mayra Santos-Febres Nadia V. Celis Salgado 307 14 Decolonial Feminisms and Indigenous Women's Resistance to Neoliberalism: Lessons from Abya Yala Andrea J. Pitts 326 15 The Menstruating Body Politic: Jose Marti, Gender, and Sexuality Stephanie Rivera Berruz 350 List of Contributors 367 Index 371
This book brings the field up to date: the authors do not rehash older work and older interpretations of central texts, but engage the most current debates, around gender and sexuality, connecting Africana and African American thought to Latin American thought, creolizing the canon, the question of racial realism, and the political philosophical issues raised by indigenous resistance.---Linda Martin Alcoff, Hunter College
