Up from Bondage

"Navigating the endless bounty of intellectual lapses and possibilities that reside in the gap between the West (qua 'philosophy') and the Rest (as "barbaros," or racialized 'outcasts'), Professor Peterson finds an accommodating comparative channel in similarities between African American and Slavic forms of intellectual, missionary, and cultural nationalisms. The result is one of those books one remembers as uncannily important, yoking together seemingly incompatible regions in interesting ways."--Houston Baker, Duke University