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Creating a Black Vernacular Philosophy

Creating a Black Vernacular Philosophy

Havis, Devonya N.

Hardcover

Series: Philosophy of Race

PhilosophyBlack American StudiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1498530141
ISBN13: 9781498530149
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Dec 21 2022
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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