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 PhilosophyJacoby Adeshei Carter 1PART I –INTER-AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY: THEORIZING THE AMERICAS1 Inter-American Philosophy: Born of Struggle?Daniel Fryer 112 Bringing Africa to the Americas: The Creolizing of Afro-Caribbean PhilosophyChike Jeffers 28PART II –INTER-AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY OF INDEPENDENCE AND STATE FORMATION3 The 1812 Constitution of Cádiz: From Colonialism to IndependenceHernando A. Estévez 494 Martin Delany and José Martí: Two Thinkers, Two CubasDwayne A. Tunstall 68PART III –INTER-AMERICAN HISTORICISM5 Illuminated in Black: Arturo Alfonso Schomburg's Revolt againstColonial Historicization—An Anti-Colonial Reflection on the Philosophy of (Black) HistoryTommy J. Curry 936 Chaos in the House of Reason: Positivism in the Americas, 1780–1900Adriana Novoa 117PART IV –CURRENT TRENDS AND FUTURE POSSIBILITIES7 Latin American Philosophy Has No Quine, So What?Susana Nuccetelli 1478 Latin American Thought as a Path toward Philosophizing from Radical ExteriorityAlejandro A. Vallega 1629 Afro-American Writing: Motifs of PlaceJames B. Haile, III 193PART V –INTER-AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY OF RACE10 Alain Locke, José Vasconcelos, and José Martí, on Race, Nationality, and CosmopolitanismJacoby Adeshei Carter 23511 Reason, Race, and the Human Project: Sylvia Winter,Sociogenesis, and Philosophy in the AmericasMichael Monahan 26112 Race, Multiplicity, and Impure Coalitions of ResistanceLee A. McBride, III 284PART VI –INTER-AMERICAN FEMINISM13 La Negra's Provocation: Corporeal Consciousness inNuestra Señora de la Noche by Mayra Santos-FebresNadia V. Celis Salgado 30714 Decolonial Feminisms and Indigenous Women'sResistance to Neoliberalism: Lessons from Abya YalaAndrea J. Pitts 32615 The Menstruating Body Politic: José Martí, Gender, and SexualityStephanie Rivera Berruz 350List of Contributors 367Index 371