Reviving the ancient philosophy of "Cosmopolitanism," a school of thought that dates to the Cynics of the fourth century BCE, Appiah traces its influence through history to show how Western intellectuals and leaders have wildly exaggerated the power of difference--and neglected the power of one.
In his wrenching, classic autobiography--one of the most important documents in American history--Douglass describes himself as a man who became a slave and, later, a slave who became a man. Reissue.
These essays by Ignatieff address difficult questions about the human rights movement's motives, assumptions, record, and rhetoric. Four scholars--K. Anthony Appiah, David A. Hollinger, Thomas W. Laqueur, and Diane F. Orentlicher--comment and Ignatieff responds.
A new edition of the highly acclaimed book "Multiculturalism and "The Politics of Recognition,"" this paperback brings together an even wider range of leading philosophers and social scientists to probe the political controversy surrounding multiculturalism. Charles Taylor's initial inquiry, which considers whether the institutions of liberal ...
Is globalization killing off the nation state? Columbia University Professor of Urban Planning Saskia Sassen elucidates the opaque dealings that both weaken and strengthen the national idea. What emerges from Sassen's review is a portrait of a radical global concentration of resources and might--with a diminishment of accountability.
Race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality: in the past couple of decades, a great deal of attention has been paid to such collective identities. They clamor for recognition and respect, sometimes at the expense of other things we value. But to what extent do 'identities' constrain our freedom, our ability to make an individual life ...
A collection of some of the most influential and significant writings by Afro-American authors of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this is an important addition to Bantam's growing black classics list.
Filled with concrete examples of how philosophers work the text guides readers through the process of philosophical reflection and enlarges our understanding of the central questions of human life.
Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and K. A. Appiah, this book contains reviews and critical essays on the work of Langston Hughes. The essays in this collection treat his work in many genres and they place his work in historical and literary context. Also included are a chronology, bibliography, and index. This is part of the series "Critical ...
Prepared under the supervision of scholars Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Kwame Anthony Appiah, this one-volume reference work includes more than 3,000 entries and scholarly articles on the history and culture of Africa and the African Diaspora. Includes maps, charts, tables, and photographs.
In the past few decades, scientists of human nature - including experimental and cognitive psychologists, neuroscientists, evolutionary theorists, and behavioral economists - have explored the way we arrive at moral judgments. They have called into question commonplaces about character and offered troubling explanations for various moral ...
Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and K. A. Appiah, this book contains reviews and critical essays on the work of Zora Neale Hurston, the African-American writer of the Harlem Renaissance whose works were forgotten and later rediscovered. The essays in this collection treat her novels, memoirs, and folklore and they place her work in historical and ...
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.
Heres an eminently readable reference of African-American contributions to the arts, faithfully adapted from the original one-volume encyclopedia Africana. Essays on such influential black figures as the writer and activist Amiri Baraka; singers Billie Holiday, Paul Robeson, and Lena Horne; painter Romare Bearden; filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles, ...
Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and K. A. Appiah, this book contains book reviews and critical essays on the work of Gloria Naylor. The essays in this collection treat novels such as "The Women of Brewster Place" and "Mama Day", individual characters, and themes across her works. Also included are a chronology, bibliography, and index. This is ...
American history saw a dramatic change with the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Now this landmark era is brought to life in a compelling new reference work that provides a complete background of the civil rights movement, with detailed entries on Martin Luther King, Andrew Young, the March on ...
Richard Wright (1908 -- 1960) Of the numerous achievements that distinguish Richard Wright's place in the history of American literature, perhaps none is more important than the fact that he was the first African-American writer to sustain himself professionally from his writings alone.Primarily through the success of Native Son and Black Boy ...
If 'slavery' is defined broadly to include bonded child labor and forced prostitution, there are upward of 25 million slaves in the world today. Individuals and groups are freeing some slaves by buying them from their enslavers. But slave redemption is as controversial today as it was in pre-Civil War America. In "Buying Freedom", Kwame Anthony ...
While other magazines routinely send journalists around the world, Transition, the leading international journal of the Black Diaspora, invites the world to write back. Its far-flung writers fill the magazine's pages with unusual dispatches, unforgettable memoirs, unorthodox polemics, unlikely conversations, and unsurpassed original fiction. In ...
This volume investigates the idea of "race' as a meaningful category in the study of literature and the shaping of literary theory. Contributors include: Jacques Derrida, Edward Said, Barbara Johnson, Giyatri C. Spivak , and Tzvetan Todorov.
Alice Walker has been honored with most of the major literary awards - including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for The Color Purple - clearly establishing her among the giants of American literature. She has achieved critical and commercial success not only through her five published novels, but for her short stories, poetry, ...
The study of identity crosses all disciplinary borders to address such issues as the multiple interactions of race, class and gender in feminist, lesbian and gay studies, postcolonialism and globalization, and the interrelation of nationalism and ethnicity in ethnic and area studies. The work aims to disrupt the discourse of identity by exploring ...
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