The Quest for Community and Identity Critical

This collection of essays engages two of the most fundamental social and political issues of our time: community and identity. Wrestling with the perplexities of these two issues within the Africana world, the contributors delve into the influences of a postmodern world of globalization with outdated, crumbling forms of identity and sociality. In the wake of such an order, new forms of identity and community must be established.

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Introduction	p. 1
Exploring Perplexities of Identity
Racism, Historical Ruins, and the Task of Identity Formation	p. 15
To Be or Not to Be Black: Problematics of Racial Identity	p. 29
Postmodernism, Narrative, and the Question of Black Identity	p. 45
Du Bois and Appiah: The Politics of Race and Racial Identity	p. 73
In Quest of Community: Sociality and Situated Freedom
Of the Quest for Freedom As Community	p. 87
Sociality and Community in Black: A Phenomenological Essay	p. 105
Historical Crises of Identity and Community
Visions of Transcendent Community in the Works of Toni Morrison	p. 127
Paulette Nardal, Race Consciousness, and Antillean Letters	p. 143
The Revival of Black Nationalism and the Crisis of Liberal Universalism	p. 159
Commodification and Existence in African American Communities	p. 185
Liberalism, Postmodernism, and the Quest for Community
Black Philosophy As a Challenge to Liberalism	p. 211
Democracy, Transitional Justice, and Postcolonial African Communities	p. 229
Community: What Type of Entity and What Type of Moral Commitment?	p. 243
Theorizing Black Community	p. 257
Selected Bibliography	p. 285
Index	p. 287
About the Contributors	p. 289
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The Quest for Community and Identity Critical Essays in Africana Social Philosophy

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