AFRICAN AMERICAN THOUGHT (PHILOSOPHY)

Race, Memory and Reclamation, School of American Studies, University of East Anglia, September 7-9
Living Together, Working Together: African-American Miners and the Coal Culture of Southwestern Pennsylvania, 1870-1970, Coal and Coke Heritage Center, Pennsylvania State University, Fayette, March 16

2006:

The African Presence and Influence on the Cultures of the Americas: an Interdisciplinary Conference, City University of New York, November 6-9
Third Biennial Conference, Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD), Rio do Janeiro, October 5-7
Variations on Blackness: Race-Making in the Americas and the World, Indiana University, Blomington, March 30-April

2005:

Africana Cultural Philosophy: Recent Work of Africana Scholars in Florida and Beyond, University of Central Florida, February 26
Black Masculinities, Africana Studies Group of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), Feb 4

2004:

Africana Culture, Religion and Philosophy, 2nd Annual Research Symposium, African American Studies Program's Institute for African American Policy Research, University of Houston,
Black Aesthetics and the Politics of Recognition, Philosophy Born of Struggle XI, Rutgers University, Douglass campus, October 22-23
Regarding Michael Jackson: Performing Racial, Gender, and Sexual Difference, African American Studies Department and the Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian and Gay Studies, Yale University, September 24-25
Temples for Tomorrow: the Harlem Renaissance: New Readings and Contexts, Department of English, Rhode Island College, May 7 and 8
The Ties that Bind II: Africa Dispersed, first annual African Diaspora Conference, Africana Studies program, Barry University, April 2, 2004

2003:

African American Nationalism(s), University of Tours, November 28-30
Rethinking the Intellectual Life, Philosophy Born of Struggle X, Rutgers University, October 24-25
Black Being and Consciousness, Department of Humanities, Central State University, Wilberforce, Ohio, May 29

2002:

W. E. B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon: Postcolonial Linkages and Transatlantic Receptions, University of Stirling, Scotland, March 16-17
Race and the United States Constitution, Philosophy Born of Struggle IX,

2001:

Black Philosophy for the 21st Century, Department of Philosophy, University of Illinois, Chicago, March 8-10
Race, Reparations, and Reparations, Philosophy Born of Struggle VIII

2000:

Slavery and Reparations, Philosophy Born of Struggle VII,

1999:

Civil Liberties in the New Millennium, Philosophy Born of Struggle VI,

1998:

The Family and Intellectual Life, Philosophy Born of Struggle V,

1997:

Black Enlightenment and the Future of the Race, Philosophy Born of Struggle IV,

1996:

The Harlem Renaissance, the Black Enlightenment, Philosophy Born of Struggle III,

1995:

African American Philosophy, Philosophy Born of Struggle II,

1994:

Philosophy Born of Struggle,

1970:

Philosophy and Black Liberation, University of Illinois, Chicago

Annual:

COURSES

African American Philosophy (Green)
Fayetteville State University: African American Philosophy (Radford-Curry)
Georgia State University: African American Political Thought (Jones)
Georgia State University: Concepts and Theories in African American Studies (Jones)
Georgia State University: History of African American Philosophy (Hall)
Harvard University:
- African American Philosophy (Shelby)
- Black Nationalism (Shelby)
Kent State University: African and African-American Philosophies (Ikuenobe)
University of Memphis: African American Philosophy (Sundstrom)
Michigan State University: Philosophy and American Slavery (Lawson)
Middle Tennessee State: Philosophy and the African American Experience (Johnson)
Northwestern University: Studies in African American Philosophy (Darby)
Pennsylvania State University: African American Philosophy (Stewart and Grosholz)
Richard Stockton College of New Jersey: African American Philosophy (Pomeroy)

JOURNALS

International Index to Black Periodicals
Black Renaissance
The Black Scholar
Ìrìnkèrindò: a Journal of African Migration
Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
Journal of Black Studies
Journal of Negro History
Journal of Pan African Studies
Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience
Western Journal of Black Studies

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

Anthologies:
- Allan, Norm R., Jr., ed. African American Humanism. New York: Prometheus, 1991.
- Allan, Norm R., ed. The Black Humanist Experience: an Alternative to Religion. New York: Prometheus, 2003.
- Flack, Harley E., and Edmund D. Pelligrino, eds. African-American Perspectives on Biomedical Ethics. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown UP, 1992. 133-149.
- Gordon, Lewis, ed. Existence in Black: an Anthology of Black Existential Philosophy. London: Routledge, 1997.
- Harris, Leonard, ed. Philosophy Born of Struggle: Anthology of Afro-American Philosophy from 1917. Dubuque, IA: Kendall / Hunt, 1983.
- Hord, Fred Lee, Jonathan Scott Lee, eds. I AM BECAUSE WE ARE: Readings in Black Philosophy. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1995.
- Johnson, Percy E., ed. Afro-American Philosophies: from Jupiter Hammon to Eugene C. Holmes. Upper Montclair, NJ: Montclair State College Press,1970.
- Lawson, Bill, and Howard McGary, eds. Between Slavery and Freedom: Philosophy and American Slavery. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1992.
- Lott, Tommy, ed. African American Philosophy: Selected Readings. Pearson Higher Education, 2001.
- Montmarquet, James A., and William H. Hardy, eds. Reflections: an Anthology of African American Philosophy. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2000.
- Pittman, John P., ed. African American Perspectives and Philosophical Traditions. London: Routledge, 1996.
- Van DeBurg, William, ed. Modern Black Nationalism: from Marcus Garvey to Louis Farrakhan. New York: New York UP, 1997.
Book Series:
- Rodopi: African American Philosophy
Selected Individual Works:
- Anderson, Victor. Beyond Ontological Blackness. New York: Continuum, 1999.
- Bernal, Martin. Black Athena: the Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilisation. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP.
  - The Archaeological and Documentary Evidence. Vol. 2 1991.
  - The Fabrication of Ancient Greece. Vol. 1. 1987.
- Carruthers, Jacob. Essays in Ancient Egyptian Studies. Los Angeles: U of Sankore P, 1984.
- Carruthers, Jacob. Mdw: Divine Speech: a Historiographical Reflection on African Deep Thought from the Time of the Pharaohs to the Present. London: , 1995.
- Cox, Oliver Cromwell. Race, Caste and Class.
- Herskovitz, Melville J. The Myth of the Negro Past. Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1970.
- hooks, bell. "Postmodern Blackness." Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory. Ed. Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman. New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993. 421-27.
- James, George. Stolen Legacy. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1990. (1954)
- Jones, Richard A. African-American Sociopolitical Philosophy: Imagining Black Communities. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 2004.
- Jordan, Winthrop D. White Over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812. U of North Carolina P, 1968.
- Keto, C. Tsehloane. The Africa Centred Perspective of History and Social Sciences in the Twenty-First Century. Blackwood: B & K, 1991.
- Keto, C. Tsehloane. Identity and Time: an Afrocentric Paradigm and the Study of the Past. Blackwood: B &K, 1995.
- McClendon, John H. "Black Sociology: Another Name for Black Subjectivity.” Freedomways 20.1 (1980): .
- McClendon, John H. "Afro-American Philosophers and Philosophy: a Neglected Theme in Black Intellectual History.” Afro-Scholar Working Papers No. 7. Urbana: Afro-American Studies and Research Program, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. 1981.
- McClendon, John H. "Dr. Holmes, the Philosopher Rebel.” Freedomways 22.1 (1982): .
- McClendon, John H. "The Afro-American Philosopher and the Philosophy of the Black Experience: a Bibliographical Essay on a Neglected Topic in both Philosophy and Black Studies.” Sage Race Relation Abstracts (1982): .
- Moses, Greg. Revolution and Conscience: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Philosophy of Nonviolence. New York: Guilford, 1997.
- Nobles, Wade. "Ancient Egyptian Thought and the Development of African (Black) Psychology." Kemet and the African World View. Ed. Maulana Karenga, and Jacob Carruthers. Los Angeles: U of Sankore P, 1984.
- Omi, Michael, and Howard Winant. Racial Formation in the United States. New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986.
- Nobles, Wade W. “African Philosophy: Foundations for Black Psychology.” Black Psychology. Ed. Reginald L. Jones. New York: Harper and Row, 1972.
- Smitherman, Geneva. Black Talk. 1994.
- Smitherman, Geneva. Talking and Testifyin: the Language of Black America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971.
- Steele, Shelby. The Content of Our Character: a New Vision of Race in America.
- Steele, Shelby. A Dream Deferred: the Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America.
- Tembo, Mwizenge. "The Concept of African Personality: Sociological Implications." African Culture: the Rhythms of Unity. Ed. Molefi Asante, and Kariamu Welsh Asante. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1990. 195-206.
- Williams, Robert C. "Afro-American Folklore as a Philosophical Source.” Philosophy of Social Science (1976): .
- Wortham, Anne. The Other Side of Racism: Philosophical Study of Black Race Consciousness, Columbus: Ohio State UP, 1981.

On-Line:

African American Slave Narratives Online Anthology

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

Anthologies:
- Appiah, Kwame Anthony, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., eds. AFRICANA: the Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. New York: Basic Civitas Books, 1999.
- Lott, Tommy and John Pittman, eds. Companion to African American Philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.
Selected Individual Works:
- Appiah, Kwame Anthony. "Europe Upside Down: Fallacies of the New Afrocentrism." Times Literary Supplement February 12, 1993: 24-25.
- Appiah, Kwame Anthony. "African American Philosophy?" The Philosophical Forum 24.1-3 (1992-1993): .
- Baines, John. "The Aims and Methods of Black Athena." Black Athena Revisited. Ed. Mary R. Lefkowitz, and Guy Maclean Rogers. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1996. 27-48.
- Bard, Kathryn A. "Ancient Egyptians and the Issue of Race." Black Athena Revisited. Ed. Mary R. Lefkowitz, and Guy Maclean Rogers. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1996. 103-111.
- Coleman, John. "Did Egypt Shape the Glory that was Greece?" Black Athena Revisited. Ed. Mary R. Lefkowitz, and Guy Maclean Rogers. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1996. 280-302.
- Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History. New York: Macmillan, 1996.
- Encyclopedia of African Religious and Philosophy. New York: Garland, 1996.
- Gossett, T. Race; the History of an Idea in America. New York: Schocken, 1963.
- Hall, Edith. "When Is a Myth Not a Myth? Bernal’s Ancient Model." Black Athena Revisited. Ed. Mary R. Lefkowitz, and Guy Maclean Rogers. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1996. 333-348.
- Hilliard, Constance. Intellectual Traditions of Pre-Colonial Africa. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997.
- Howe, Stephen. Afrocentrism: Mythical Pasts and Imagined Homes. London: Verso, 1998.
- Jasanoff, Jay, and Alan Nussbaum. "Word Games: the Linguistic Evidence in Black Athena." Black Athena Revisited. Ed. Mary R. Lefkowitz and Guy Maclean Rogers. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1996. 177-205.
- Jenkyns, Richard. "Bernal and the Nineteenth Century." Black Athena Revisited. Ed. Mary R. Lefkowitz and Guy Maclean Rogers. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1996. 411-420.
- Jordan, Winthrop D. White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1968.
- Kelley, Robin. Freedom Dreams: the Black Radical Imagination.
- Kelley, Robin, and George Lipsitz. Race Rebels: Culture, Politics and the Black Working Class.
- Lefkowitz, Mary R. "Ancient History, Modern Myths." Black Athena Revisited. Ed. Mary R. Lefkowitz, and Guy Maclean Rogers. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1996. 3-23.
- Lefkowitz, Mary R. Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History. New York: , 1996.
- Lefkowitz, Mary R., and Guy Maclean Rogers, eds. Black Athena Revisited. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1996.
- Liverani, Mario. "The Bathwater and the Baby." Black Athena Revisited. Ed. Mary R. Lefkowitz, and Guy Maclean Rogers. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1996. 421-427.
- Mazama, Ama, ed. The Afrocentric Paradigm. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2003.
- Moses, Wilson Jeremiah. Creative Conflict in African American Thought. Cambridge: CUP, 2004.
- Moses, Wilson Jeremiah. Afrotopia: the Roots of African American Popular History. Cambridge: CUP, 1998.
- Moses, Wilson Jeremiah. Liberian Dreams: Back to Africa Narratives from the 1850s. University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1998.
- Moses, Wilson Jeremiah. Classical Black Nationalism: from the American Revolution to Marcus Garvey. New York: New York UP, 1996.
- Moses, Wilson Jeremiah. The Golden Age of Black Nationalism, 1850-1925. Oxford: OUP, 1988.
- Norton, Robert. "The Tyranny of Germany Over Greece? Bernal, Herder, and the German Appropriation of Greece." Black Athena Revisited. Ed. Mary R. Lefkowitz and Guy Maclean Rogers. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1996. 403-410.
- Robinson, Cedric J. Black Marxism: the Making of the Black Radical Tradition. London: Zed, 1983.
- Rodriguez, Richard. Brown: the Last Discovery of America. New York: Viking, 2002.
- Rogers, Guy Maclean. "Multiculturalism and the Foundations of Western Civilisation." Black Athena Revisited. Ed. Mary R. Lefkowitz, and Guy Maclean Rogers. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1996. 428-443.
- Shavit, Yaacov. History in Black: African Americans in Search of an Ancient Past. London: Frank Cass, 2001.
- Snowden, Frank. "Bernal’s ‘Blacks’ and the Afrocentrists." Black Athena Revisited. Ed. Mary R. Lefkowitz and Guy Maclean Rogers. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1996. 112-128.
- Tritle, Lawrence. "Black Athena: Vision or Dream of Greek Origins?" Black Athena Revisited. Ed. Mary R. Lefkowitz, and Guy Maclean Rogers. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1996. 303-330.
- Turner, James E., ed. The Next Decade: Theoretical and Research Issues in Africana Research. Ithaca: Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University, 1984.
- Vermeule, Emily. "The World Turned Upside Down." Black Athena Revisited. Ed. Mary R. Lefkowitz, and Guy Maclean Rogers. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1996. 269-279.
- Yancy, George, ed. African-American Philosophers: 17 Conversations. London: Routledge, 1998.
- Yurco, Frank J. "Black Athena: the Egyptological Evidence." Black Athena Revisited. Ed. Mary R. Lefkowitz, and Guy Maclean Rogers. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1996. 62-100.

On-Line:

Curran, Jeanne, and Susan R. Takata: Why Africana Philosophy? (2000)
Harris, Leonard: Bibliography of African American Philosophy
Rodriguez, Richard: 'Blaxicans' and Other Reinvented Americans
Steele, Shelby: Biography
Steele, Shelby: Race in America (to New Century Leadership Circle)
Steele, Shelby: Race in America (Uncommon Knowledge)

UNIVERSITY PROGRAMMES / RESEARCH CENTRES / RESEARCH PROJECTS

Canada:

York University: Harriet Tubman Resource Centre on the African Diaspora

USA:

Philosophy Programmes:
- Philosophy Departments in the USA
African, African American, Africana, Black, and Pan-African Studies Programmes:
- University of Alabama: African American Studies Program
- Amherst College: Department of Black Studies
- University of Arizona: Africana Studies Program
- Barnard College: African and African Diaspora Studies
- Boston University:
  - African American Studies
  - African Studies Center
- Brandeis University: Department of African and Afro-American Studies
- Brown University: Department of Africana Studies
- University of California:
  - Berkeley:
    - Center for African Studies
    - Department of African American Studies
  - Davis: African and African American Studies Program
  - Irvine: Program in African American Studies
  - Los Angeles: Center for African American Studies
  - San Diego: Department of Ethnic Studies
- University of Central Florida: African American Studies
- University of Colorado, Boulder: Department of Ethnic Studies
- Columbia University:
  - Institute of African Studies
  - Institute for Research in African American Studies
- University of Connecticut: Institute for African American Studies
- Cornell University: Africana Studies and Research Center
- Dartmouth College: African and African American Studies Program
- DePaul University: Center for Black Diaspora
- Duke University: Department of African and African American Studies Program
- Emory University: Program of African American Studies
- University of Florida:
  - African American Studies Program
  - Center for African Studies
- Florida International University: African New World Studies
- Georgetown University:
  - African American Studies
  - African Studies Program
- University of Georgia: African Studies Institute
- Georgia State University: Department of African American Studies
- Harvard University:
  - Committee on African Studies
  - W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research
- Howard University:
  - Department of African Studies
  - Department of Afro-American Studies
- University of Illinois:
  - Chicago: Department of African American Studies
  - Urbana-Champaign:
    - Afro-American Studies and Research Program
    - Center for African Studies
- Indiana University:
  - African Studies Program
  - Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies
- University of Iowa:
  - African Studies Program
  - Department of African American World Studies
- Iowa State University: Department of African American Studies
- Johns Hopkins University:
- University of Kansas:
  - Department of African and African American Studies
  - African Studies Resource Center
- Kent State University: Department of Pan-African Studies
- Loyola University, Chicago: Black World Studies Program
- University of Maryland, College Park: Center for the Study of the African Diaspora
- University of Massachusetts, Amherst: W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies
- University of Miami: African American Studies Program
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: Center for Afroamerican and African Studies
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities: Department of African American and African Studies
- University of Missouri, Columbia:
  - Afro-Romance Institute for Languages and Literatures of the African Diaspora
  - Black Studies Program
- Morehouse College: Department of African American Studies
- University of Nebraska, Lincoln: Minors in African and African American Studies Program
- New York University: Africana Studies Program
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: Department of African and Afro-American Studies
- Northwestern University:
  - Department of African American Studies
  - Program of African Studies
- Ohio State University: Department of African American and African Studies
- University of Pennsylvania:
  - African Studies Center
  - Center for Africana Studies
- Pennsylvania State University: Department of African and African American Studies
- University of Pittsburgh: Department of Africana Studies
- Princeton University:
  - Program in African Studies
  - Program in African American Studies
- Purdue University:
  - African American Studies and Research Center
- University of Rhode Island: African and African American Studies Program
- University of Rochester: Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies
- Rutgers University, New Brunswick: Department of Africana Studies
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
- University of South Carolina: African American Studies Program
- University of South Florida: Department of Africana Studies
- University of Southern California: African Studies Program
- Southern Illinois University, Carbondale:
  - African Studies Program
  - Black American Studies Program
- Stanford University:
  - Center for African Studies
  - Department of African and African American Studies
- State University of New York (SUNY):
  - Albany: Department of Africana Studies
  - Binghampton: Department of Africana Studies
  - Buffalo: Department of African American Studies
  - Stony Brook: Africana Studies Program
- Swarthmore College: Black Studies Program
- Syracuse University: Department of African American Studies
- Temple University: Department of African American Studies
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville: Program in African and African-American Studies
- University of Texas, Austin: Center for African and African American Studies
- Tulane University:
  - Program in African and African Diaspora Studies
  - Amistad Research Center
- Vanderbilt University: African American Studies Program
- Vassar College: Africana Studies Program
- University of Virginia: Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies
- Washington University of St. Louis: African and Afro-American Studies Program
- Wellesley College: Department of Africana Studies
- Western Michigan University: Africana Studies Program
- University of Wisconsin, Madison:
  - Department of African Languages and Literatures
  - African Studies Program
  - Department of Afro-American Studies
- Yale University:
  - African American Studies Program
  - Council on African Studies

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