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

Name: In My Father's House Africa in the Philosophy of Culture
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ISBN: 9780195068528

ISBN-10: 0195068521

ISBN-13: 9780195068528

Edition: 1993

Authors: Kwame Anthony Appiah

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The beating of Rodney King and the resulting riots in South Central Los Angeles. The violent clash between Hasidim and African-Americans in Crown Heights. The boats of Haitian refugees being turned away from the Land of Opportunity. These are among the many racially-charged images that have burst across our television screens in the last year alone, images that show that for all our complacent beliefs in a melting-pot society, race is as much of a problem as ever in America. In this vastly important, widely-acclaimed volume, Kwame Anthony Appiah, a Ghanaian philosopher who now teaches at Harvard, explores, in his words, "the possibilities and pitfalls of an African identity in the late…

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List price: $28.99
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/27/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 9.25" wide x 6.14" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English




The Invention of Africa



Illusions of Race



Topologies of Nativism



The Myth of an African World



Ethnophilosophy and Its Critics



Old Gods, New Worlds



The Postcolonial and the Postmodern



Altered States



African Identities


Epilogue: In My Father's House


Notes


Bibliography


Index