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Lewis R. Gordon teaches philosophy and African American studies at Purdue University. He is author of Fanon and the Crisis of European Man: An Essay on Philosophy and the Human Sciences (1995) and Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism (1995), as well as editor of Existence in Black: An Anthology of Black Existential Philosophy (1996) and co-editor of Black Texts and Black Textuality: Constructing and de-constructing Blackness. T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting teaches French and African American Studies at Purdue University. She is co-editor of Spoils of War: Women, Cultures, Revolutions and author of Black Female Bodies, White Male Imaginations: Nineteenth-Century French Narratives on Black Femininity.Renée T. White teaches sociology and African American Studies at Purdue University. She is co-editor of Black Texts and Black Textuality and Spoils of War. She is also completing her first book, New Sexual Identities: Black Teenage Women and Sex in the AIDS Era.

• Foreword: Leonard Harris (Purdue University) & Carolyn Johnson. Introduction.Part I: Oppression:.1. Fanon, Oppression and Resentment: The Black Experience in the United States: Floyd W. Hayes III (Purdue University).2. Perspectives of Du Bois and Fanon on the Psychology of Oppression: Stanley O. Gaines, Jr.3. Racism and Objectification: Reflections on Themes from Fanon: Richard Schitt (Brown University).Part II: Questioning the Human Sciences:.4. Fanon's Body of Black Experience: Ronald A. T. Judy (University of Pittsburgh).5. The Black and the Body Politic: Fanon's Existential Phenomenological Critique of Psychoanalysis: Lewis R. Gordon.6. To Cure and to Free: The Fanonian Project of Decolonized Psychiatry: Francoise Verges (UC Berkeley).7. Revolutionizing Theory: Sociological Dimensions in Fanon's Sociologie D'Une Revolution: Renee T. White (Purdue University).Part III: Identity and the Dialectics of Recognition: .8. Casting the Slough: Fanons New Humanism for a New Humanity: Robert Bernasconi (University of Memphis).9. Fanon, Sartre and Identity Politics: Sonia Kruks (Oberlin College).10. The Difference Between the Hegelian and Fanonian Dialectic of Lordship and Bondage: Lou Turner.Part IV: Fanon and the Emancipation of Women of Color: .11. Antiblack Femininity - Mixed-Race Identity: Engaging Fanon to Reread Capecia: T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting (Purdue University).12. Violent Women: Surging into Forbidden Quarter: Nada Elia (Western Illinois University-Macomb).13. To Conquer the Veil: Fanon's Continued Relevance to Algeria: Eddy Souffrant (Marquette University).14. Invisibility and Super/Vision: Fanon on Race, Veils, and Discourses of Resistance: David Theo Goldberg (Arizona State University).Part V: Postcolonial Dreams, Neocolonial Realities: .15. Public (Re)Memory, Vindicating Narratives, and Troubling Beginnings: Towards a Postcolonial Psychoanalytical Theory: Maurice Stevens (Santa Cruz).16. Fanon, African and Afro-Caribbean Philosophy: Paget Henry (Brown University).17. Fanon and the Contemporary Discourse of African Philosophy: Tsenay Serequeberhan (Simmons College).18. On the Misadvertures of National Consciousness: A Retrospect on Frantz Fanon's Gift of Prophecy: Olufemi Taiwo (Loyola University, Chicago).Part VI: Resistance and Revolutionary Violence:.19. Jammin' the Airwaves and Tuning Into the Revolution: The Dialectics of the Radio in L'An Cinq du la Revolution Algerienne: Nigel Gibson (Columbia University).20. Fanon on the Role of Violence in Liberation: A Comparison to Gandhi and Mandela: Gail M. Presby (Marist College).21. Fanon's Tragic Revolutionary Violence: Lewis R. Gordon (Purdue University).Afterword: Joy Ann James (University of Massachusetts & University of Colorado).Bibliography.