Philosophizing the Americas First Edition Jacoby Adeshei Carter

Part I – Inter-American Philosophy: Theorizing the Americas

1. Inter-American Philosophy: Born of Struggle?

2. Bringing Africa to the Americas: The Creolizing of Afro-Caribbean Philosophy

Part II – Inter-American Philosophy of Independence and State Formation

3. The 1812 Constitution of Cádiz: From Colonialism to Independence

4. Martin Delany and José Martí: Two Thinkers, Two Cubas

Part III – Inter-American Historicism

5. Illuminated in Black: Arturo Alfonso Schomburg’s Revolt against Colonial Historicization—An Anti-Colonial Reflection on the Philosophy of (Black) History

6. Chaos in the House of Reason: Positivism in the Americas, 1780–1900

Part IV – Current Trends and Future Possibilities

7. Latin American Philosophy Has No Quine, So What?

8. Latin American Thought as a Path toward Philosophizing from Radical Exteriority

9. Afro-American Writing: Motifs of Place

Part V – Inter-American Philosophy of Race

10. Alain Locke, José Vasconcelos, and José Martí, on Race, Nationality, and Cosmopolitanism

11. Reason, Race, and the Human Project: Sylvia Winter, Sociogenesis, and Philosophy in the Americas

12. Race, Multiplicity, and Impure Coalitions of Resistance

Part VI – Inter-American Feminism

13. La Negra’s Provocation: Corporeal Consciousness in Nuestra Señora de la Noche by Mayra Santos-Febres

14. Decolonial Feminisms and Indigenous Women’s Resistance to Neoliberalism: Lessons from Abya Yala

15. The Menstruating Body Politic: José Martí, Gender, and Sexuality