A Companion to African‐American Philosophy

Contemporary African‐American philosophy is a recent establishment to the “institutions of philosophical world” (p. xiii). During the 1970s, the American Philosophical Association created the Committee on the Status of Blacks in the Profession (p. xiii). This action officially recognized African‐American philosophy as an interdisciplinary academic specialization. The field focuses, although not exclusively, on social, political, moral, and cultural issues surrounding the “social realities of race” and the “collective experience of black folk”, such as: race and self‐consciousness, the nature of racism, race relations, education, leadership, liberation theories, African philosophy and its relationship to African‐American philosophy, as well as feminism (p....