Philosophizing the Americas

Introduction: Prolegomena to Inter-American Philosophy
Jacoby Adeshei Carter 1
PART I -INTER-AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY: THEORIZING THE AMERICAS
1 Inter-American Philosophy: Born of Struggle?
Daniel Fryer 11
2 Bringing Africa to the Americas: The Creolizing of Afro-Caribbean Philosophy
Chike Jeffers 28
PART II -INTER-AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY OF INDEPENDENCE AND STATE FORMATION
3 The 1812 Constitution of Cadiz: From Colonialism to Independence
Hernando A. Estevez 49
4 Martin Delany and Jose Marti: Two Thinkers, Two Cubas
Dwayne A. Tunstall 68
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
Tommy J. Curry 93
6 Chaos in the House of Reason: Positivism in the Americas, 1780-1900
Adriana Novoa 117
PART IV -CURRENT TRENDS AND FUTURE POSSIBILITIES
7 Latin American Philosophy Has No Quine, So What?
Susana Nuccetelli 147
8 Latin American Thought as a Path toward Philosophizing from Radical Exteriority
Alejandro A. Vallega 162
9 Afro-American Writing: Motifs of Place
James B. Haile, III 193
PART V -INTER-AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY OF RACE
10 Alain Locke, Jose Vasconcelos, and Jose Marti, on Race, Nationality, and Cosmopolitanism
Jacoby Adeshei Carter 235
11 Reason, Race, and the Human Project: Sylvia Winter,
Sociogenesis, and Philosophy in the Americas
Michael Monahan 261
12 Race, Multiplicity, and Impure Coalitions of Resistance
Lee A. McBride, III 284
PART VI -INTER-AMERICAN FEMINISM
13 La Negra's Provocation: Corporeal Consciousness in
Nuestra Senora de la Noche by Mayra Santos-Febres
Nadia V. Celis Salgado 307
14 Decolonial Feminisms and Indigenous Women's
Resistance to Neoliberalism: Lessons from Abya Yala
Andrea J. Pitts 326
15 The Menstruating Body Politic: Jose Marti, Gender, and Sexuality
Stephanie Rivera Berruz 350
List of Contributors 367
Index 371