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    What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought.Lewis Ricardo Gordon - 2015 - Fordham University Press.
    Challenging the notion of theory as white and experience as black, Lewis Gordon here offers a philosophical portrait of the thought and life of the Martinican-turned-Algerian revolutionary psychiatrist and philosopher Frantz Fanon as an example of "living thought" against the legacies of colonialism and racism, and thereby shows the continued relevance and importance of his ideas.
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    Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism.Lewis R. Gordon - 1995 - Humanity Books.
    Lewis Gordon presents the first detailed existential phenomenological investigation of antiblack racism as a form of Sartrean bad faith. Bad faith, the attitude in which human beings attempt to evade freedom and responsibility, is treated as a constant possibility of human existence. Antiblack racism, the attitude and practice that involve the construction of black people as fundamentally inferior and subhuman, is examined as an effort to evade the responsibilities of a human and humane world. Gordon argues that the concept of (...)
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  3. Fanon and the Crisis of European Man: An Essay on Philosophy and the Human Sciences.Lewis Ricardo Gordon - 1995 - New York: Routledge.
    As the first book to analyze the work of Fanon as an existential-phenomenological of human sciences and liberation philosopher, Gordon deploys Fanon's work to illuminate how the "bad faith" of European science and civilization have philosophically stymied the project of liberation. Fanon's body of work serves as a critique of European science and society, and shows the ways in which the project of "truth" is compromised by Eurocentric artificially narrowed scope of humanity--a circumstance to which he refers as the crisis (...)
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    Existentia Africana: understanding Africana existential thought.Lewis Ricardo Gordon - 2000 - New York: Routledge.
    The intellectual history of the last quarter of this century has been marked by the growing influence of Africana thought--an area of philosophy that focuses on issues raised by the struggle over ideas in African cultures and their hybrid forms in Europe, the Americas, and the Caribbean. Existentia Africana is an engaging and highly readable introduction to the field of Africana philosophy and will help to define this rapidly growing field. Lewis R. Gordon clearly explains Africana existential thought to a (...)
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  5. An Introduction to Africana Philosophy.Lewis R. Gordon - 2008 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    In this undergraduate textbook Lewis R. Gordon offers the first comprehensive treatment of Africana philosophy, beginning with the emergence of an Africana consciousness in the Afro-Arabic world of the Middle Ages. He argues that much of modern thought emerged out of early conflicts between Islam and Christianity that culminated in the expulsion of the Moors from the Iberian Peninsula, and from the subsequent expansion of racism, enslavement, and colonialism which in their turn stimulated reflections on reason, liberation, and the meaning (...)
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    Existentia Africana: Understanding Africana Existential Thought.Lewis Ricardo Gordon - 2000 - New York: Routledge.
    First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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    Her Majesty’s Other Children: Sketches of Racism From a Neocolonial Age.Lewis Ricardo Gordon - 1997 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
    Her Majesty's Children reveals not only a deeply personal account of the experience of racism but is also a revolutionary work that asks us to reconsider our ordinary practices and lives to recognize and resist the traces of a colonial age of racism that so many claim is only part of our past.
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    Freedom, Justice, and Decolonization.Lewis R. Gordon - 2020 - Routledge.
    The eminent scholar Lewis R. Gordon offers a probing meditation on freedom, justice, and decolonization. What is there to be understood and done when it is evident that the search for justice, which dominates social and political philosophy of the North, is an insufficient approach for the achievements of dignity, freedom, liberation, and revolution? Gordon takes the reader on a journey as he interrogates a trail from colonized philosophy to re-imagining liberation and revolution to critical challenges raised by Afropessimism, theodicy, (...)
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    Decolonizing Philosophy.Lewis R. Gordon - 2019 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 57 (S1):16-36.
    This article explores five ways in which philosophy could be colonized: (1) racial and ethnic origins, (2) coloniality of its norms, (3) market commodification, (4) disciplinary decadence, (5) solipsism—and what the author calls a teleological suspension of philosophy as consideration among other practices of thought.
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  10. Afro pessimism.Lewis R. Gordon, Annie Menzel, George Shulman & Jasmine Syedullah - 2018 - Contemporary Political Theory 17 (1):105-137.
  11. Existence in Black: An Anthology of Black Existential Philosophy.Lewis R. Gordon (ed.) - 1996 - New York: Routledge.
    First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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  12. Existential dynamics of theorizing black invisibility.Lewis R. Gordon - 1997 - In Existence in Black: An Anthology of Black Existential Philosophy. Routledge.
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  13. Thinking through Rejections and Defenses of Transracialism.Lewis R. Gordon - 2018 - Philosophy Today 62 (1):11-19.
    This article explores several philosophical questions raised by Rebecca Tuvel’s controversial article, “In Defense of Transracialism.” Drawing upon work on the concept of bad faith, including its form as “disciplinary decadence,” this discussion raises concerns of constructivity and its implications and differences in intersections of race and gender.
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    Thinking through Some Themes of Race and More.Lewis R. Gordon - 2018 - Res Philosophica 95 (2):331-345.
    This article is a reflective essay, drawing upon insights on racism and related forms of oppression as expressions of bad faith, on several influential movements in contemporary philosophy of race and racism. The author pays particular attention to theories from the global south addressing contemporary debates ranging from Euromodernity, philosophical anthropology, and the racialization of First Nations or Amerindians to intersectionality theory, discourses on privilege, decolonization, and creolization.
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    Through the Zone of Nonbeing A Reading of Black Skin, White Masks in Celebration of Fanon's Eightieth Birthday.Lewis R. Gordon - 2005 - CLR James Journal 11 (1):1-43.
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    What Does It Mean to Colonise and Decolonise Philosophy?Lewis R. Gordon - 2023 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 93:117-135.
    What does it mean for philosophy to be ‘colonised’ and what are some of the challenges involved in ‘decolonising’ it in philosophical and political terms? After distinguishing between philosophy and its practice as a professional enterprise, I explore six ways in which philosophy, at least as understood in its Euromodern form, could be interpreted as colonised: (1) Eurocentrism and its asserted racial and ethnic origins/misrepresentations of philosophy's history, (2) coloniality of its norms, (3) market commodification of the discipline, (4) disciplinary (...)
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    Frantz Fanon, Fifty Years On.Lewis R. Gordon, George Ciccariello-Maher & Nelson Maldonado-Torres - 2013 - Radical Philosophy Review 16 (1):307-324.
    Originally delivered to mark the fiftieth anniversary of both Frantz Fanon’s death and the publication of his seminal discourse on decolonization, The Wretched of the Earth, these remarks seek to offer a preliminary outline of Fanon’s continuing relevance to the present. Conceptually spanning such touchstone elements of Fanon’s thought as sociogeny, race, violence, the human, and the relation between decolonial ethics and decolonial politics, the authors turn our attention to diagnosing the neoliberal face of contemporary coloniality/modernity and contributing to movements (...)
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  18. Critical reflections on three popular tropes in the study of whiteness.Lewis R. Gordon - 2004 - In George Yancy (ed.), What White Looks Like: African-American Philosophers on the Whiteness Question. Routledge.
     
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  19. Justice otherwise: thoughts on Ubuntu.Lewis R. Gordon - 2014 - In Leonhard Praeg & Siphokazi Magadla (eds.), Ubuntu: curating the archive. University of KwaZulu-Natal Press.
     
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    Not always enslaved, yet not quite free: Philosophical challenges from the underside of the new world.Lewis R. Gordon - 2008 - Philosophia 36 (2):151-166.
    This article is the keynote address of the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, Barbados, philosophy symposium in celebration of the 200th Anniversary of the British outlawing the Atlantic Slave Trade. The paper explores questions of enslavement and freedom through challenges of philosophical anthropology, philosophy of social change, and metacritical reflections posed by African Diasporic or Africana philosophy. Such challenges include the relevance and legitimacy of philosophical reflection to the lives of racialized slaves and concludes with a discussion (...)
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    Fanon on cadavers, madness, and the damned.Lewis R. Gordon - 2022 - European Journal of Philosophy 30 (4):1577-1582.
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  22. African-american existential philosophy.Lewis R. Gordon - 2003 - In Tommy Lee Lott & John P. Pittman (eds.), A Companion to African-American Philosophy. Blackwell.
  23. Black Existence in Philosophy of Culture.Lewis R. Gordon - 2012 - Diogenes 59 (3-4):96-105.
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    Remembering George Lamming (1927–2022), with Thoughts on In the Castle of My Skin.Lewis R. Gordon - 2023 - Philosophy and Global Affairs 3 (1):46-59.
    The first part of this memoriam essay focuses on the author’s relationship with the famed Bajan intellectual George Lamming during his years at Brown University. The second part explores Lamming’s most famous work, In the Castle of My Skin (1953), which offers important tropes in Black existential thought that are synchronous with Frantz Fanon’s Peau noir, masques blancs (1952), but with a more detailed exploration of the concept of political complicity through Lamming’s portrait of the phenomenon of slime and its (...)
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    Review of Bruce Kuklick’s Black Philosopher, White Academy[REVIEW]Lewis R. Gordon - 2013 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 39 (7):723-730.
  26. Black existentialism.Lewis R. Gordon - 2010 - In Alan D. Schrift (ed.), The History of Continental Philosophy. University of Chicago Press. pp. 4--199.
     
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  27. Grown folks' business: The problem of maturity in hip hop.Lewis R. Gordon - 2005 - In D. Darby & T. Shelby (eds.), Hip Hop and Philosophy. Open Court. pp. 2--105.
     
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  28. Falguni A. Sheth: Toward a political philosophy of race: SUNY Press, Albany, NY, 2009, 270 pp, hardcover, US$74.50, ISBN 978-0-7914-9397-7. [REVIEW]Lewis R. Gordon - 2011 - Continental Philosophy Review 44 (1):119-130.
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    On Michael Monahan’s The Creolizing Subject: Race, Reason, and the Politics of Purity. [REVIEW]Lewis R. Gordon - 2012 - CLR James Journal 18 (1):212-216.
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    Obligations Across Generations: A Consideration in the Understanding of Community Formation.Lewis R. Gordon - 2004 - In Philip Alperson (ed.), Diversity and Community. Malden, MA, UK: Blackwell. pp. 116–127.
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    La philosophie est-elle le Blues?Lewis R. Gordon - 2013 - Rue Descartes 78 (2):48.
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    Fanon on Decolonizing Knowledge.Lewis R. Gordon - 2010 - In Elizabeth A. Hoppe & Tracey Nicholls (eds.), Fanon and the Decolonization of Philosophy. Lexington (Rowman & Littlefield). pp. 3--18.
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    Afterword: Living Fanon.Lewis R. Gordon - 2011 - Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy 19 (1):83-89.
    Commentary on essays in Forum: Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth, Fifty Years Later.
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    Race in Film.Lewis R. Gordon - 2019 - In Noël Carroll, Laura T. Di Summa & Shawn Loht (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures. Springer. pp. 677-697.
    This chapter examines race in film through exploring what the author calls “cinema beyond the veil.” This involves addressing several themes. The first is historical—namely, the story of racial portraits in film. The second is hermeneutical—that is, interpreting the portrayal of race in film. The third is philosophical—pertaining particularly to the aesthetic quality of film where race emerges. And the fifth is political—whether race can be in film without subordinating aesthetic aims to political imperatives. Conceptual tools rallied in the service (...)
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    Introduction: Forum on Creolizing Theory.Lewis R. Gordon - 2017 - Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy 25 (2):1-5.
    This introduction outlines why the author assembled a community of scholars with the task not of commenting on Jane Anna Gordon’s work on creolizing political theory but instead placing it in dialogue with their own. The idea is that the value of theory depends also on the extent to which it could be engaged as a communicative practice with other theories dedicated to a shared concern. In this case, it is scholars committed to thought devoted to concerns of dignity, freedom, (...)
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    Geopolitics and Decolonization: Perspectives From the Global South.Fernanda Frizzo Bragato & Lewis R. Gordon (eds.) - 2017 - Rowman & Littlefield International.
    This volume presents timely commentaries on issues relating to Africa and Latin America, demonstrating the value of intercultural dialogue amongst voices from the Global South on decoloniality, cultural rights and politics.
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    Fanon and the Decolonization of Philosophy.Mireille Fanon-Mendès France, Anna Carastathis, Nigel C. Gibson, Lewis R. Gordon, Peter Gratton, Ferit Güven, Mireille Fanon Mendès-France, Marilyn Nissim-Sabat, Olúfémi Táíwò, Mohammad H. Tamdgidi, Chloë Taylor & Sokthan Yeng - 2010 - Lexington Books.
    The essays in Fanon and the Decolonization of Philosophy all trace different aspects of the mutually supporting histories of philosophical thought and colonial politics in order to suggest ways that we might decolonize our thinking. From psychology to education, to economic and legal structures, the contributors interrogate the interrelation of colonization and philosophy in order to articulate a Fanon-inspired vision of social justice. This project is endorsed by his daughter, Mireille Fanon-Mendès France, in the book's preface.
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    Journeys in Caribbean Thought: The Paget Henry Reader.Jane Anna Gordon, Lewis R. Gordon, Aaron Kamugisha & Neil Roberts (eds.) - 2016 - New York: Rowman & Littlefield International.
    For the past 30 years, Paget Henry has been one of the most articulate and creative voices in Caribbean scholarship, making seminal contributions to the study of Caribbean political economy, C.L.R. James studies, critical theory, phenomenology, and Africana philosophy. This volume includes some of his most important essays from across his remarkable career, providing an introduction to a broad range of pressing contemporary themes and to the unique mind of one of the leading Caribbean intellectuals of his generation.
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  39. Making Science Reasonable: Peter Caws on Science both Human and “Natural”.Lewis R. Gordon - 2002 - Janus Head 5 (1):14-38.
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  40. Philosophy in Multiple Voices.Lewis R. Gordon, Jorge J. E. Gracia, Randall Halle, David Haekwon Kim, Sarah Lucia Hoagland, Lucius T. Outlaw, Nancy Tuana & Dale Turner - 2007 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
    The scope of Philosophy in Multiple Voices provides the reader with eight philosophical streams of thought-African-American, Afro-Caribbean, Asian-American, Feminist, Latin-American, Lesbian, Native-American and Queer-that introduce readers to alternative, complex philosophical questions concerning gendered, sexed, racial and ethnic identities, canon formation, and meta-philosophy. The overriding theme of the text is that philosophy is pluralistic in voice, rich in diversity, and ought to valorize democratic intellectual spaces of philosophical engagement.
     
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  41. Spoils of War: Women of Color, Cultures, and Revolutions.Chela Sandoval, Janet Afary, Berenice A. Carroll, Lewis R. Gordon, Joy A. James, Jacqueline M. Martinez, Shahrzad Mojab, Valérie Orlando, Marjorie Salvodon & T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting (eds.) - 1997 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
    In Spoils of War, a diverse group of distinguished contributors suggest that acts of aggression resulting from the racism and sexism inherent in social institutions can be viewed as a sort of "war," experienced daily by women of color.
     
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    On Pateman and Mills's Contract and Domination.Lewis R. Gordon - 2009 - CLR James Journal 15 (1):235-247.
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    Pan‐Africanism and African‐American Liberation in a Postmodern World: A Review Essay. [REVIEW]Lewis R. Gordon - 1999 - Journal of Religious Ethics 27 (2):333-358.
    This review essay explores Josiah Young's project of developing a liberatory Pan-Africanism that is attuned to cultural diversity and Victor Anderson's advocacy of postmodern cultural criticism in African-American religious thought. After situating African-American religious thought as a branch of Africana thought, the author examines these two religious thinkers' work as an effort to forge a position on African-American religious thought--including its relation to theology--in an age where even theory is treated as a god that is about to die. At the (...)
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  44. Some Thoughts on Philosophy and Scripture in an Age of Secularism.Lewis R. Gordon - 2003 - Journal of Philosophy and Scripture 1 (1):20.
     
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    Cynthia Willet, Maternal Ethics and Other Slave Moralities. [REVIEW]Lewis R. Gordon - 1998 - Continental Philosophy Review 31 (1):107-116.
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    To Undiscipline Knowledge.Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun & Lewis R. Gordon - 2021 - Philosophy and Global Affairs 1 (1):5-21.
    The social sciences were founded at the height of the Euromodern era when the belief in infinite expansion coexisted with the willingness to enclose, categorize, and lock up a large part of humanity. The invention of the social sciences was closely linked to this enterprise of disciplinarization of spaces and of populations which accompanied the expansion of capitalism and colonial conquest. Stigmatized, dominated, and colonized groups were constituted as objects by social scientists who considered themselves as pure subjects, and concealed (...)
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    Elected Neofascism.Lewis R. Gordon - 2017 - The Philosophers' Magazine 76:24-25.
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    Wilson Harris. [REVIEW]Lewis R. Gordon - 1999 - CLR James Journal 7 (1):135-141.
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    Introduction.Lewis R. Gordon - 1998 - Radical Philosophy Review 1 (1):3-6.
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    Creolizing political theory in conversation.Lewis R. Gordon, Anne Norton, Sharon Stanley, Fred Lee, Thomas Meagher & Jane Anna Gordon - 2018 - Contemporary Political Theory 17 (3):363-392.
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