In My Father's House Africa in the Philosophy of Culture,9780195068528

In My Father's House Africa in the Philosophy of Culture

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ISBN13: 9780195068528
ISBN10: 0195068521
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1993-05-27
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

In this vastly important, widely-acclaimed volume, Appiah, a Ghanaian philosopher who now teaches at Harvard, explores what it means to be an African American, on the many preconceptions that have muddled discussions of face, Africa, and Afrocentrism since the end of the 19th century. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

Author Biography


Kwame Anthony Appiah is Professor of Afro-American Studies at Harvard University. His books include Assertion and Conditionals (1985), For Truth in Semantics (1986), Necessary Questions (1989), and the novel Avenging Angel (1991). He is currently editing the Oxford Book of African Literature.

Table of Contents

The Invention of Africa
3(25)
Illusions of Race
28(19)
Topologies of Nativism
47(26)
The Myth of an African World
73(12)
Ethnophilosophy and Its Critics
85(22)
Old Gods, New Worlds
107(30)
The Postcolonial and the Postmodern
137(21)
Altered States
158(15)
African Identities
173(8)
Epilogue: In My Father's House 181(12)
Notes 193(18)
Bibliography 211(10)
Index 221

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