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Creating a Black Vernacular Philosophy

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Creating a Black Vernacular Philosophy explores how everyday Black vernacular practices, developed to negotiate survival and joy, can be understood as philosophy in their own right. Devonya N. Havis argues that many unique cultural and intellectual practices of African diasporic communities have done the work of traditional philosophies. Focusing on creative practices that take place within Black American diasporic cultures via narratives, the blues, jazz, work songs, and other expressive forms, this book articulates a form of Black vernacular Philosophy that is centered within and emerges from meaning structures cultivated by Black communities. These distinct philosophical practices, running parallel with and often improvising on European philosophy, should be acknowledged for their rigorous theoretical formation and for their disruption of traditional Western philosophical ontologies.
Devonya N. Havis is associate professor of philosophy at Canisius College in Buffalo, NY.
Introduction Chapter 1: Performative Utterance Chapter 2: How to Slip the Yoke: The Black (W)Hole Ritual Chapter 3: Searching for the Black Difference: Black Philosophy and Redemption Songs Chapter 4: A Critique of Black Philosophy: Rethinking Black Philosophical Re-appropriations of Humanism Chapter 5: No More Redemption Songs: The Black Difference and Alterity Conclusion
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