Philosophizing the Americas

Jacoby Adeshei Carter (Edited By) Jacoby Adeshei Carter is an associate professor of philosophy, and chair of the Department of Philosophy at Howard University. He is the director of the Alain Leroy Locke Society, author of African American Contributions to the Americas’ Cultures: Lectures by Alain Locke and co-editor of Philosophic Values and World Citizenship: Locke to Obama and Beyond and Insurrectionist Ethics: Radical Perspectives on Social Justice. He is also series editor of African American Philosophy and the African Diaspora, published by Palgrave/Macmillan. Hernando Arturo Estévez (Edited By) Hernando A. Estévez was educated at DePaul University and Indiana University. He works on Latin American philosophy, political philosophy and continental philosophy. He is currently chair and professor of the Department of Philosophy, Arts and Literature, and former Dean of the School of Philosophy at Universidad de La Salle in Bogotá. Hernando is the editor and contributor of Teaching to Discern: forming connections, decolonizing perspectives (Bogotá: Ediciones UniSalle, 2019).

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 Cádiz: From Colonialism to Independence

Hernando A. Estévez | 49

4 Martin Delany and José Martí: 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, José Vasconcelos, and José Martí, 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 Señora 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: José Martí, Gender, and Sexuality

Stephanie Rivera Berruz | 350

List of Contributors | 367

Index | 371