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Afro-Caribbean Philosophy
Edited by Frédéric Lefrançois (Université Des Antilles, CNRS)
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| Summary | Afro-Caribbean philosophy is a rich and dynamic field of thought that explores the diverse and complex experiences of Afro-Caribbean people. It emerges from the historical and cultural intersections of African, Caribbean, and Western traditions, profoundly shaped by the transatlantic slave trade, colonialism, and the struggle for postcolonial identity and justice. Central to Afro-Caribbean philosophy is the concept of identity, which is understood as fluid, multifaceted, and often contested. Philosophers in this tradition emphasize the importance of historical consciousness and the recovery of African cultural heritage, which were systematically eroded by colonial powers. They argue for a reconnection with African roots while also acknowledging the new, hybrid identities that have emerged in the Caribbean. Another critical theme is the critique of colonialism and its enduring legacies. Afro-Caribbean philosophers analyze the ways in which colonial ideologies have shaped social, economic, and political structures in the Caribbean. They examine issues of power, resistance, and liberation, drawing on the works of figures like Frantz Fanon, who explored the psychological effects of colonization and the necessity of decolonization. Afro-Caribbean philosophy also delves into questions of diaspora and migration, examining how the movement of peoples and cultures has influenced Caribbean societies. This includes a focus on the experiences of Afro-Caribbean communities in the global diaspora, particularly in North America and Europe, and their contributions to broader philosophical discourses. The field is inherently interdisciplinary, intersecting with literature, history, sociology, and political science. Thinkers such as Aimé Césaire and Édouard Glissant have made significant contributions, blending philosophical analysis with poetic expression to articulate the complexities of Caribbean life. Ultimately, Afro-Caribbean philosophy seeks to affirm the dignity and agency of Afro-Caribbean people, providing intellectual tools to address contemporary issues of racism, inequality, and cultural survival. It is a philosophy of resilience and creativity, deeply rooted in the lived experiences and aspirations of the Afro-Caribbean community. |
| Key works | Carter & Estévez 2024, Jeffers 2024, Vargas 2024, Boulbina 2023, Meagher 2023, Porcher & Carlucci 2023, Brown 2022, Cornell 2022, Henry 2022, Lefrançois 2022 |
| Introductions | Henry 1993, Jeffers 2024, Vargas 2024, Boulbina 2023, Meagher 2023, |
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- Dionysian Poiesis and Demonic Grounds; Or, Creative Rebelliousness and Method-Making.Lee A. Mcbride Iii - manuscriptDrawing insights from Aimé Césaire, Sylvia Wynter, and Katherine McKittrick, McBride argues that Dionysian poiesis and radical scholarly praxis (method-making) are tools and levers that can be deployed to stoke imagination, access demonic grounds, and conjure new systems of knowledge in the liberatory praxis of the oppressed.Remove from this listExport citation
Bookmark - Tornadic Black Angels: Vodou, Dance, Revolution.Joshua M. Hall - forthcoming - Journal of Black Studies.This article explores the history of Vodou from outlawed African dance to revolutionary magic to depoliticized national Haitian religion and popular dance, its present reduction to Diaspora interpersonal healing, and a possible future. My first section, on Kate Ramsey’s The Spirits and the Law: Vodou and Power in Haiti, reveals Vodou as a sociopolitical construction of racist legal oppression of Africana dances rituals, and artistic-political resistance thereto. My second section, on Karen McCarthy Brown’s Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn, (...)
- Food, Focal Practices, and Decolonial Agrarianism.Lee A. Mcbride Iii - forthcoming - In Samantha Noll & Zachary Piso, Fields, Farmers, Forks, and Food: The Philosophy of Paul B. Thompson. Springer. pp. 131-143.Agrarianism, according to Paul B. Thompson, is an environmental philosophy focused on agri-culture and the nurturing of food, fuel, and fiber. Agrarianism hopes to reestablish our fundamental connection to the land, helping us approach a tenable understanding of sustainability. Thompson enlists Albert Borgmann’s notion of “focal practices” to discuss farming and the culture of the table. With this, comes a critique of “the device paradigm,” the modern technological way of life that (i) alienates us from quotidian beauty, lifecycles and seasonality, (...)
- Elizabeth Pérez, The Gut: A Black Atlantic Alimentary Tract (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022). Pp. 84. £17.00 (Pbk). ISBN 9781009031530. [REVIEW]José Eduardo Porcher - forthcoming - Religious Studies:1-2.In The Gut, published in the series Cambridge Elements in Magic, Elizabeth Pérez offers an in-depth exploration of the belly's significance in Afro-Diasporic religions, particularly Cuban Lucumí, Brazilian Candomblé, and Haitian Vodou. The book delves into the cognitive role of the gut in recognizing Black Atlantic knowledge and is organized into eight sections, covering gut feelings, beings within the belly, African precedents, and the offering of guts to deities. Through participant observation and archival research, Pérez connects literal gutting in kitchen (...)Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Afro-Latinx, Hispanic and Latinx Identity: Understanding the Americas.Eric Bayruns Garcia - 2025 - Critical Philosophy of Race 13 (1):95-120.I present a novel position vis-à-vis the views in the Latin American philosophy literature regarding whether subjects more aptly use "Hispanic" or "Latinx" to refer to Hispanic- or-Latinx people. To this end, I will argue (C) the term "Afro-Latinx" is more apt than "Hispanic" or "Latinx" in a significant number of cases. This conclusion is based on three premises. The first premise (P1) is that use of "Afro-Latinx" provides subjects with understanding of how certain events depend on anti-Black racism, US (...)
- The Philosophy of Charles W. Mills: Race and the Relations of Power.Mark William Westmoreland (ed.) - 2025 - New York: Routledge.Charles W. Mills (1951 - 2021) was considered by many to be the most well-known philosopher specializing in political philosophy and critical philosophy of race. This is the first collection of essays to critically examine the key themes of Mills's philosophy across his major works. The chapters in this volume engage with major themes such as the racial contract, non-ideal theory, metaphysics of race, epistemology of ignorance, and corrective justice. They also explore Mills's engagement with philosophical figures including Frederick Douglass, (...)
- Looking for a Good Human Being.Fekade Abebe - 2024 - CLR James Journal 30 (1):293-303.Kiros’ Self-Definition aims to be a reader’s guide to the literature on the subject. It is such, as it provides an outline and summarizes the literature on the topic of the Self and philosophy. By exploring different ideas, philosophies, thinkers, and literature over time, through different eras, and through the lenses of gender, sex, and race, it is also intended to be a philosophical bridge between the Global South and the Global North. Understanding this task’s moral, existential, and philosophical implications, (...)
- Linden Lewis’s Forbes Burnham: The Life and Times of the Comrade Leader.Anton L. Allahar - 2024 - CLR James Journal 30 (1):305-317.
- A Review Essay on Haití.Anton L. Allahar - 2024 - CLR James Journal 30 (1):277-291.
- Science and Epistemic Injustice.Mouhamadou El Hady Ba - 2024 - CLR James Journal 30 (1):3-18.This article argues that the reception of the work of Cheikh Anta Diop by French historians and Egyptologists is a case of epistemic injustice as this concept has been defined by the British philosopher Miranda Fricker. I first explain the concept of epistemic injustice and then show, using Popper’s demarcation criterion, that it is impossible to objectively reject Diop’s work as lacking in scientificity. I thus analyze the heterogeneity of Diop’s work reception depending on the positionality of the actors in (...)
- Phenomenology of Flesh: Fanon’s Critique of Hegelian Recognition and Buck-Morss’ Haiti Thesis.Grant Brown - 2024 - Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge 1 (40):1-17.This philosophical investigation interrogates the relationship between G.W.F. Hegel’s concept of the master-slave dialectic in The Phenomenology of Spirit and the critique and reformulation of it by Frantz Fanon in Black Skin, White Masks. As a means of contextualization and expansion of Hegel’s original textual account, I consider Susan Buck-Morss’ seminal defense through grounding the dialectic in Hegel’s possible historical knowledge of the Haitian Revolution. I maintain that despite a compelling picture, Buck-Morss’ insights are unable to fully vindicate Hegel from (...)
- Philosophizing the Americas.Jacoby Adeshei Carter & Hernando Arturo Estévez (eds.) - 2024 - New York: Fordham University Press.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 (...)
- Asymmetric Power, Asymmetric Knowledge, and Solidarity: Lessons from Hermeneutic and Creolizing Epistemologies.Patricia Cipollitti Rodríguez - 2024 - Critical Times 7 (3):448–477.Emancipatory social movement solidarities are prefigurative associations. While pursuing broad-based social transformations, solidaristic agents attempt to model—in an incomplete and provisional way—the social relations they wish to bring into existence. Existing structures of domination, deep-set and overlapping as they are, pose an abiding challenge to the prefiguration of just relations, however. This article considers the challenge of prefiguration by developing a diachronic, goal-oriented, and epistemic account of solidarity. The author argues that solidarity is a collaborative process whereby agents prefigure relationships (...)
- Beyond a Boundary, Beyond the Pale.Dermot Dix - 2024 - CLR James Journal 30 (1):115-127.This paper draws on C. L. R. James’s theory of a colonial education and W. E. B. DuBois’s theory of double consciousness to analyse the contradictory implications of an anglicised model of prep school education in Ireland. In particular, it pays close attention to two features of this education. First is its inflating and over-valuing of just about all things British with the corresponding de-valuing of things from the colonised territory, in this case Ireland. Second is the importance of sports (...)
- The Promise of Manumission: Appropriations and Responses to the Notion of Emancipation in the Caribbean and South America in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century.Miguel Gualdrón Ramírez - 2024 - In Kris F. Sealey & Benjamin P. Davis, Creolizing Critical Theory: New Voices in Caribbean Philosophy. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 61-81.In this text, I consider two examples in the history of emancipation and manumission of enslaved, Black populations in the Caribbean and South America in order to theorize a colonial mode of conceiving of freedom at play in the first half of the nineteenth century. This mode is marked by the figure of the promise, enacting a notion of freedom as a constantly deferred, external compensation. Indeed, instead of an immediate decision deeming the practice of enslavement and trade of human (...)
- (15 other versions)Editor's Note.Paget Henry - 2024 - CLR James Journal 30 (1):1-2.
- 2 Bringing Africa to the Americas: The Creolizing of Afro-Caribbean Philosophy.Chike Jeffers - 2024 - In Jacoby Adeshei Carter & Hernando Arturo Estévez, Philosophizing the Americas. New York: Fordham University Press. pp. 28-46.
- Sabotage: John Brown and the Subterranean Pass-Way.Ryan J. Johnson - 2024 - CLR James Journal 30 (1):163-190.This essay returns to John Brown’s so-called Raid on Harpers Ferry and his plan to build a mountain guerilla wing of the Underground Railroad through the Appalachian Mountains in order to theorize a concept of sabotage. Learning from the Haitians and other militant and enslaved rebellions, Brown seems to have interpreted American chattel slavery infrastructurally, which meant the key to abolition was the militant sabotage of the infrastructural racism and oppression.
- On Artificial Intelligence in Black and White.Richard Jones - 2024 - CLR James Journal 30 (1):65-96.With the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Anthropocene, we are faced with “humanizing AI before it dehumanizes us.” Before the advent of the “posthuman,” will our technologies help develop a better world, or enable us to more efficiently destroy it? This essay is an appeal to Black philosophers to contribute to the critique and value theory of AI. OpenAI’s GPT-4 has opened new ethical questions. This examination of AI’s history, and the possibility of “thinking machines,” concludes that emerging (...)
- Rabindranath Tagore, a Hindu Mystic Writer, on Love and Sufism.Ashmita Khasnabish - 2024 - CLR James Journal 30 (1):49-63.The article primarily grounded in the Indian Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s notion of Humanitarian identity and universal love. It shows furthermore how this theory of love as embodied in his books The Religion of Man and Gitanjali connect human beings through love which one can attain through the Hindu Mystic philosophical concepts of Brahman and ego-transcendence. The article further discusses the notion of love by drawing connection between Hindu Mystic Philosophy, and Baul philosophy of Bengal which is identical with Sufi (...)
- Unthinking Mastery with Suzanne Césaire.Sara Kok - 2024 - Krisis 44 (1):5-18.This paper aims to read together Julietta Singh’s Unthinking Mastery and Suzanne Césaire’s The Great Camouflage in order to uncover the narrative spaces in Césaire’s work that can be fruitful for unthinking mastery. I identify four connected themes in Césaire’s work. Surrealism, rejection of doudou-ism and the natural disaster explicitly reject the construction of the Caribbean as one exoticized place and mechanisms of categorization. The only stable identity of the Caribbean is its instability. The figure of the plant-human adds to (...)
- An Audacious Review.Devin Leigh - 2024 - CLR James Journal 30 (1):191-220.Taking a critical book review of Eric Williams’s 1964 survey of British West Indian historiography, British Historians and the West Indies, as its point of analysis, this article looks at how the Caribbean historian Elsa Goveia pushed back against Williams’s vision for the orientation of West Indian Studies in an age of independence. It suggests that Goveia’s review symbolizes the transition of West Indian scholarship from the anti-colonial period, represented by Williams the individual, to the post-colonial period, represented by a (...)
- Forbes Burnham as Leader.Linden Lewis - 2024 - CLR James Journal 30 (1):319-321.
- Traditional Methods.Andrew R. Martin - 2024 - CLR James Journal 30 (1):97-113.The UWI system of universities celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2023 and as part of reflecting on this milestone the following study will examine the role of Caribbean traditional music in the UWI system and explore traditional Caribbean methods of teaching and learning music as well as the ways in which Caribbean traditional music and its associated culture have connected UWI students with local communities in Jamaica and Trinidad. Finally, through an analysis of the proliferation and teaching of traditional Caribbean (...)
- Unsettling the Plantation “Babylon” System.Keston K. Perry - 2024 - CLR James Journal 30 (1):249-276.By imperial design, the Caribbean region was created as uneven yet interconnected archipelagos of Black dispossession, devaluation and dehumanisation. On this basis, Caribbean leaders have initiated calls for reparatory justice, demanding restitution for longstanding systemic inequalities stemming largely from plantation slavery, colonialism and native genocide. This paper interrogates the Caribbean program for reparatory justice drawing out its political strategies and ideological underpinnings. This analysis shows that the current eliteled “reparations-for-development” project reproduces a narrow modernizing form of economic reparations that is (...)
- Between Caribbean and Chinese Economic Development.Yue Qiu & Paget Henry - 2024 - CLR James Journal 30 (1):19-47.This paper compares the very different results of the use of the theories of Arthur Lewis in constructing the mixed economies of China and the Caribbean, the widely diverging paths these economies took in the era of neoliberal globalization, and how the two can cooperate now that China has entered its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) phase. We argue that in response to the great depression of the 1930s, both China and the Caribbean embarked on socialist alternatives to pure capitalism. (...)
- George Padmore, Global Historian of Contemporary Africa avant la lettre.Arno Sonderegger - 2024 - CLR James Journal 30 (1):129-161.Padmore’s contributions to historical knowledge and history writing are stored in eight topical books, published between 1931 and 1956. After providing a cursory survey, this paper’s focus is on two of Padmore’s early books—How Britain Rules Africa (1936) and Africa and World Peace (1937)—arguing for his originality as a pioneering practitioner of global history of contemporary Africa. Padmore treats the various colonial situations in the British dominated territories in depth and considers the relevant imperial relations as well. Attacking “colonial fascism”, (...)
- The Philosophies of America Reader: From the Popol Vuh to the Present ed. by Kim Díaz and Mathew A. Foust (review).Bernardo R. Vargas - 2024 - Philosophy East and West 74 (2):1-4.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:The Philosophies of America Reader: From the Popol Vuh to the Present ed. by Kim Díaz and Mathew A. FoustBernardo R. Vargas (bio)The Philosophies of America Reader: From the Popol Vuh to the Present. Edited by Kim Díaz and Mathew A. Foust. New York: Bloomsbury, 2021. Pp. 480. Paperback $46.75, isbn 978-1-4742-9626-7.Philosophy in the United States continues to be among the least diverse disciplines in the humanities, dominated (...)
- History and histories.David Ventura - 2024 - CLR James Journal 30 (1):221-248.In the conclusion to Black Skin, White Masks, Frantz Fanon seemingly rejects the role that the past can play in the creation of decolonized futurities, famously writing: “I am not a prisoner of History (l’Histoire). I must not look for the meaning of my destiny in that direction.” On this basis, Fanon’s thought has often been read as opposed to the more prophetic vision of the past offered by Édouard Glissant, which emphasizes the contrapuntal potentialities that inhere in Black vernacular (...)
- Audre Lorde on the Sacred Scale of Livability: Alexis Pauline Gumbs in Conversation with Caleb Ward.Caleb Ward - 2024 - Hypatia 39 (4).Caleb Ward interviews Black feminist writer, poet, educator, organizer, and scholar Alexis Pauline Gumbs about Audre Lorde’s spirituality, her ecological political praxis, her pedagogy, and the cross-generational scale of social change.
- The Sociology of Development and the Underdevelopment of Sociology.Anton L. Allahar - 2023 - CLR James Journal 29 (1):61-83.In the present essay my aim is first to review and extend Frank’s thinking on ‘the sociology of development,’ and second, I will attempt to apply his insights to some of the new or present-day directions in sociological theory and research with a view to showing how they might be seen as contributing to ‘the underdevelopment of sociology.’ Beginning with the vision of the founding fathers of sociology broadly understood, I will argue that that vision and the promise of sociology (...)
- Sartre's existentialism and the communitarian thesis in Afro-Caribbean existential philosophy.Lawrence O. Bamikole - 2023 - In T. Storm Heter, Kris F. Sealey & James B. Haile, Creolizing Sartre. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Fanon’s Odyssy: A Cannibalistic Feast.Seloua Luste Boulbina - 2023 - In Michaela Ott & Babacar Mbaye Diop, Decolonial Aesthetics I: Tangled Humanism in the Afro-European Context. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. pp. 113-127.I will look at the impact of Fanon—as an iconic character in the struggle for independence of Algeria, as an antiracialist and anticolonialist thinker as well—at literature and art practice today. What kind of theoretical knowledge do contemporary artists need? How does the theory affect the production of art and the migration of ideas? Here, I would like to show the close relationship between critical thought, literature and arts. From that perspective, thought, painting, drawing, photo, cinema, video, novel, installation art, (...)
- Caribbean Development from Colonialism to Post-neoliberal Multipolarity.Dennis C. Canterbury - 2023 - CLR James Journal 29 (1):91-116.Arguably, Caribbean development has evolved through three distinct historical periods in international political economy and currently must find its way in a fourth—the new multipolar world order. The hitherto three periods were characterized by a system of multipolar colonial imperial empires, bipolar cold war with neocolonialism, and unipolar neoliberalism. The purpose here is to unlock the door to critical thinking on Caribbean social, political, and economic policies for the new multipolarity. The region must dial back its blind pursuit of self-regulating (...)
- Criminalizing Black Reason.Derefe Kimarley Chevannes - 2023 - CLR James Journal 29 (1):195-220.This paper critically examines the nexus between the scientific method and the study of race in the contemporary world. It begins by historicizing the emergence of the scientific method as indispensable to the advent of European modernity. The development of modernity collapsed into the racialization of black subjects as subhuman and criminal. This criminalization of blackness occurs at two critical junctures: the arrest of blacks via plantation enslavement and the concomitant imprisoning of black bodies of thought. The consequence of modernity’s (...)
- A Sociology of Possibilities.George K. Danns - 2023 - CLR James Journal 29 (1):85-90.Caribbean sociology accords with the Du Boisan paradigm of sociology as a science. Caribbean sociology originated as an undifferentiated discipline. It is a panoply of social thought integrated with history, political science, anthropology, psychology, and philosophy. Sociology has never been a discipline sufficient unto itself. To speak of Caribbean sociology is to introduce space and place, territory, and identity as parameters of a social scientific discipline that is yet to adhere to its own boundaries or adequately define itself. Caribbean countries (...)
- On Decolonizing Philosophy and the Arts.Rolf Elberfeld - 2023 - In Michaela Ott & Babacar Mbaye Diop, Decolonial Aesthetics I: Tangled Humanism in the Afro-European Context. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. pp. 9-23.The text introduces decolonial debates in philosophy. In the first step, the historical horizon of decolonial debates is described, which is found in the European expansion. Following this, the positions of Kwasi Wiredu, Walter Mignolo and Nikita Dhawan are briefly introduced. The last step is to ask how a decolonization of the arts and aesthetics is possible. It is proposed to first analyze the historiographies on the arts and aesthetics in decolonial perspective in order to prepare new images of these (...)
- A New Skin for the Wounds of History: Fanon’s Affective Sociogeny and Ricœur’s Carnal Hermeneutics.J. Reese Faust - 2023 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 49 (9):1128-1154.This article argues that, despite their distance across the colonial divide, a creolizing reading of Frantz Fanon and Paul Ricœur can yield valuable insights into decoloniality. Tracing their shared philosophical concerns with embodied phenomenology, social ontology and recognition, I argue that their respective accounts of sociogeny and hermeneutics can be productively read together as describing a shared end of mutual recognition untainted by racism or coloniality – a ‘new skin’ for humanity, as Fanon describes it. More specifically, Fanon contributes to (...)
- Blurring the Lines of Demarcation.Stephanie Fullerton-Cooper - 2023 - CLR James Journal 29 (1):117-135.This paper seeks to challenge the “fixed line” between disciplines by exploring the interconnections of Sociology and Caribbean Literature. It highlights the Caribbean author as a social activist and policymaker whose aim is to agitate for improvement in various social conditions. The writings of three Caribbean authors—Erna Brodber of Jamaica, as well Frank McField and Roy Bodden of the Cayman Islands—are examined. Through their published and unpublished works, through their fiction and non-fiction, the interconnection between Sociology and Caribbean Literature is (...)
- Poetic Traditions of Revolt in the Caribbean.Oscar Guardiola-Rivera & Juan Felipe García - 2023 - CLR James Journal 29 (1):13-60.How to reciprocate a precious gift? In this case the gift was given to us twice. First, in the shape of Paget Henry’s pioneering reinvention of René Ménil’s “Aesthetic Marxism.” Through it, second, we’re led to rediscover the fantastic world of Ménil’s hitherto ignored but crucial contribution to contemporary philosophy: his systematization of the poetics of revolt. Our debt with Ménil and Henry is unpayable. Our humble response in this essay is to offer readers a map to the treasure that (...)
- Between Poetry and Politics.Paget Henry - 2023 - CLR James Journal 29 (1):299-306.
- The Crisis of Caribbean Sociology and a Sociology of Crisis.Paget Henry - 2023 - CLR James Journal 29 (1):137-163.In this paper, I argue that macro-theorizing in the field of Caribbean sociology is going through a crisis of transition from the third to the fourth major period in its 100-year-old process of historical development. It is a transition from a period in which the houses of earlier Caribbean macro-theorizing in the social sciences, such as creole theory, cultural pluralism and dependency theory, were blown from the center and displaced by the simultaneous arrival of two re-colonizing intellectual hurricanes from the (...)
- (15 other versions)Editor’s Note.Paget Henry - 2023 - CLR James Journal 29 (1):1-3.
- Gordon Rohlehr: Celebrating the Life of a Bookman.Leslie R. James - 2023 - CLR James Journal 29 (1):5-11.
- Of Wandering, Theory, and Transcendence: A Review of Ashmita Khasnabish’s Virtual Diaspora, Postcolonial Literature and Feminism. [REVIEW]Thomas Jay Lynn - 2023 - CLR James Journal 29 (1):289-293.
- Practicing Out of Tune.Rachel McNealis - 2023 - CLR James Journal 29 (1):295-298.
- Creolized Reflection.Thomas Meagher - 2023 - In Kris Sealey & Storm Heter, Creolizing Sartre. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 135–147.This paper discusses Jean-Paul Sartre's conceptions of pure reflection and impure reflection, affirming the distinction but arguing for an intermediate mode of reflection: creolized reflection. Creolized reflection is not impure as it does not regard consciousness as being-in-itself, but it transcends pure reflection in concretely negating the relationship between consciousness and imposed conceptions of being-in-itself. I argue that this mode of reflection is at play in much Africana phenomenology and conceptions of potentiated double consciousness.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Afro-Brazilian Religions and the Prospects for a Philosophy of Religious Practice.José Eduardo Porcher & Fernando Carlucci - 2023 - Religions 14 (2):146.In this paper, we take our cue from Kevin Schilbrack’s admonishment that the philosophy of religion needs to take religious practices seriously as an object of investigation. We do so by offering Afro-Brazilian traditions as an example of the methodological poverty of current philosophical engagement with religions that are not text-based, belief-focused, and institutionalized. Anthropologists have studied these primarily orally transmitted traditions for nearly a century. Still, they involve practices, such as offering and sacrifice as well as spirit possession and (...)
- A Forgotten Revolutionary Solidarity.Yue Qiu - 2023 - CLR James Journal 29 (1):165-194.Though a few scholars have discussed the transnational engagement of Caribbean thinkers with China, hitherto unknown is the imaginative alliance Left-wing Chinese writers crafted with the Caribbean via their works on the Haitian Revolution. This paper explores writings by four Chinese Marxists—Li Chunhui, Wang Chunliang, Lu Guojun, and Mao Xianglin—who engaged with Caribbean intellectuals, like Eric Williams, and used the history of the first anti-colonial revolution to rethink China’s own decolonial experiment. During the Maoist era, these thinkers argued for the (...)
- Fanon and Soap Advertising.Annalee Ring - 2023 - CLR James Journal 29 (1):221-251.This paper critically examines the pervasive colonial myth that associates whiteness with cleanliness and blackness with dirtiness, a myth often perpetuated through media, especially soap advertisements. Through an analysis of Frantz Fanon’s contributions to psychoanalysis and phenomenology, the paper elucidates how racial constructs are sociogenically constructed and internalized, shaping the collective unconscious. Focusing on Fanon’s phenomenological exploration of the white gaze, the paper highlights its role in overdetermining the black man, reducing them to an object embodying racial myths. The paper (...)
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