Critically engage a work of secondary literature (peer-reviewed journal article) by a living author who engages themes from our course. Find a text that is not on the syllabus. Concisely present the main points of the article, and then agree with, disagree with, or qualify the author’s argument. Your paper should include a strong thesis, one that is more robust than simply “this other person is wrong/right about X” (though, depending on the (dis)agreement, such a thesis may be sufficient). Basically, your paper should use another’s work as a foil to make your own relatively unique claim about an Africana Philosophical theme. You goal is to “enter the conversation”.
- Lucius Outlaw, “African, African American, Africana Philosophy” (1992)
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Leonard Harris, “What then is Philosophy Born of Struggle”
- Sylvia Wynter
- Edmund Morgan, “Slavery and Freedom: the American Paradox”
- Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” (1852)
- Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom (selections)
- Harriet Jacobs, “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” (chs 1-17)
- Frederick Douglass, “The Nature of Slavery”
- CLR James, Toussaint L’Ouverture
- Paul Taylor, “Three Challenges to Race Thinking”
- W.E.B. DuBois, “Conservation of the Races”
- Appiah, IMFH, “The Illusion of Race”
- Lucius Outlaw, “‘Conserve’ Races?”
- Sylvia Wynter, “No Humans Involved”
- W.E.B. DuBois, Souls of Black Folk, “Of Our Spiritual Strivings
- Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, “Prologue” (pp. 5-11)
- William E. Cross, “The Negro-to-Black Conversion Experience
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Naomi Zack, “Mixed Black and White Race and Public Policy”
—, “The Fluid Symbol of Mixed Race”
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Linda Alcoff, “On Being Mixed”
Lewis Gordon, Existentia Africana, “Mixed Race in Light of Whiteness and Shadows of Blackness”
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Leonard Harris, “Necro-Being”
Charles Mills, “White Ignorance”
Frantz Fanon, “The Lived Experience of the Black Man”
George Yancy, “The Elevator Effect”DiAngelo, “White Fragility”
Smith et al., “Racial Battle Fatigue”
Bell, “Racial Realism”