Readings

Primary Source Reading List

These sources will be the focus of the Experts’ sessions at the Workshop. Participants should read them ahead of time and have access to them during the Workshop.

1. Lucius T. Outlaw Jr., "Africana Philosophy", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2022 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2022/entries/africana/>

2. John Hope Franklin & Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans (McGraw Hill, 2021)

NB: The Experts strongly recommend participants purchase a copy of this book, given the statute and longevity of this resource, the number of editions it has gone through. The book is a most valuable resource that should be ready-to-hand in each person’s library to help with the ongoing development of their understanding as they study and teach figures and texts that are grouped under the heading of Africana Philosophy pertinent to the USA. The Experts urge participants to begin reading the text before the Workshop and continue reading it until finishing it in keeping with their teaching as well as for edification.

3. Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery (Penguin, 1999)

4. Anna Julia Cooper, A Voice from the South in Lemert and Bahn, eds., The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper (Rowman and Littlefield, 1998). Read “Womanhood,” “Woman versus the Indian,” and “Has America a Race Problem?”

5. W.E.B. Du Bois, Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil (1920). Read “The Souls of White Folk,” “Of the Ruling of Men,” and “The Damnation of Women”

Note that Darkwater is accessible online for free: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/15210/15210-h/15210-h.htm

6. Aimé Césaire, “Culture and Colonization,” Social Text 28 (Summer 2010): 127–144.

7. Ralph Ellison, “The Little Man at Chehaw Station: The American Artist and His Audience,” The American Scholar, 47 (Winter 1977-78)

8. Beverly Guy-Sheftall, ed., Words of Fire: Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought (New Press, 1995). Read Gloria Joseph, “Black Feminist Pedagogy and Schooling in Capitalist White America” and The Combahee River Collective, “A Black Feminist Statement”

9. Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete? (Palgrave, 2003)

Bibliography

These are the sources the Experts recommend participants engage with as further preparation for the Workshop or as they continue developing their capacities after the Workshop.

· Howard Brotz, ed., African-American Social & Political Thought 1850-1920, Revised Edition (Routledge, 1991)

· Anaïs Angelo, “Women in Philosophy" (African Feminist Philosophy), https://oxfordre.com/africanhistory/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.001.0001/acrefore-9780190277734-e-500#acrefore-9780190277734-e-500-bibliography-1

· Africana Philosophy Podcast: https://historyofphilosophy.net/series/africana-philosophy

· Liam Kofi Bright and Peter Adamson, “So You Want to Teach Some Africana Philosophy?” (March 2022): https://blog.apaonline.org/2022/03/25/so-you-want-to-teach-some-africana-philosophy/

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