Re-Imagining Liberations

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Re-Imagining Liberations

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Author(s): Lewis R. Gordon

Publication date (Print): 1 June 2018

Journal: International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies

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Keywords: liberation, racism, political commitment, decoloniality

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This article explores re-imagining liberations through a critical analysis of decolonial theory, shifting the geography of reason, allegories of thought, philosophical anthropologies of race, a critique of moralism and privilege, and the complexity of existential political commitment.

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Lewis R. Gordon

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Journal ID (doi): 10.2307/j50020082

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Title: International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies

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Publication date (Print): 1 June 2018

Volume: 1

Issue: 1 ( doiID: 10.13169/intecritdivestud.1.issue-1 )

Pages: 11-29

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University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA

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Keywords: liberation,racism,political commitment,decoloniality

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[1] Abbas, A. (2018/). Another love: A politics of the unrequited. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. Antef. Inscription of Antef, 12th Dynasty, Kmt/Ancient Egypt, 1991–1782 BCE.

[2] Appiah, K. A. (2016, November 9). There is no such thing as western civilization. The Guardian. Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/09/western-civilisation-appiahreith-lecture?CMP=share_btn_fb

[3] Biko, S. (2002). I write what I like: Selected writings. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

[4] Bragato, F. F., & Gordon, L. R. (Eds.). (2018). Geopolitics and decolonization. London, England: Rowman & Littlefield.

[5] Cornell, D. (2014). Law and revolution in South Africa: uBuntu, dignity, and the struggle for constitutional transformation. New York, NY: Fordham University Press.

[6] Douglass, F. (2008). The life and times of Frederick Douglass. Radford, VA: Wilder Publications. (Original work published 1881.)

[7] Fanon, F. (1961). Les Damnés de la terre. Paris, France: François Maspero.

[8] Feagin, J. (2013/). The White Racial frame: Centuries of racial framing and counter-framing (2nd ed.). New York: Routledge.

[9] Gasset, J. O. y. (1994/). The revolt of the masses. New York, NY: W.W. Norton. (Original work published 1930.)

[10] Gordon, J. A. (2014/). Creolizing political theory: Reading Rousseau through Fanon. New York, NY: Fordham University Press.

[11] Gordon, L. R. (2000/). Existentia Africana: Understanding Africana existential thought. New York, NY: Routledge.

[12] Gordon, L. R. (2007, January). Iris Marion Young on political responsibility: A reading through Jaspers and Fanon. In Symposia on gender, race, and philosophy (Vol. 3, No. 1). Retrieved from http://web.mit.edu/sgrp

[13] Gordon, L. R. (2008/). An introduction to Africana philosophy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

[14] Gordon, L. R. (2011). Shifting the geography of reason in an age of disciplinary decadence. Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World, 1, 96–104.

[15] Gordon, L. R. (2018a). Afro-Jewish ethics? In C. Hutt, B. Dov Lerrner, & J. Schwartzmann (Eds.), Explorations in Jewish religious and philosophical ethics (pp. 213–227). London, England: Routledge.

[16] Gordon, L. R. (2018/b). Juifs contre la Libération: Une critique afro-juive [Jews against Liberation: An Afro-Jewish critique]. Tumultes numéro, 50, 97–108.

[17] Gordon, L. R. (2018c). When justice is not enough: Toward the decolonization of normative life. In F. Bragato & L. R. Gordon (Eds.), Geopolitics and decolonization (pp. 31–49). London, England: Rowman & Littlefield.

[18] Gordon, L. R. (in press). Fear of Black consciousness. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

[19] Heilbroner, R. L. (1999). The worldly philosophers: The lives, times, and ideas of the great economic (7th rev. ed.). New York, NY: Simon & Schuster. (Original work published 1953.)

[20] Jaspers, K. (2000). The question of German guilt (E. B. Ashton, Trans.). New York, NY: Fordham University Press.

[21] Kerwick, J. (2016). Misguided guardians: The conservative case against neoconservatism. Las Vegas, NV: Stairway Press.

[22] Locke, J. (1689). Second treatise on government. London, England: Awnsham Churchill.

[23] Mignolo, W., & Walsh, C. (2018). On decoloniality: Concepts, analytics, praxis. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

[24] More, M. P. (2018). Looking through philosophy in Black: Memoirs. London, England: Rowman & Littlefield.

[25] Obeng, T. O. (1990). La Philosophie africaine de la période pharaonique: 2780–330 avant notre ère [African philosophy from the Pharaonic period: 2780–330, before our era]. Paris, France: L'Harmattan.

[26] Obeng, T. O. (2004/). Egypt: Ancient history of African philosophy. In K. Wiredu (Ed.), A companion to African philosophy (pp. 31–49). Malden, MA: Blackwell.

[27] Ramose, M. B. (1999). African philosophy through Ubuntu. Harare, Zimbabwe: Mond Books.

[28] Sekyi-Otu, A. (2018). Left universalism, Africacentric essays. New York, NY: Routledge.

[29] Sousa Santos, B. d. (2014). Epistemologies of the South: Justice against epistemicide. New York, NY: Routledge.

[30] Sousa Santos, B. d. (2018). The end of the cognitive empire: The coming of age of epistemologies of the South. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

[31] Suàrez-Krabbe, J. (2015/). Race, rights and rebels: Alternatives beyond human rights and development. London, England: Rowman & Littlefield.

[32] Walsh, C. (2018). The decolonial for: Resurgences, shifts, and movements. In W. Mignolo & C. Walsh (Eds.), On decoloniality: Concepts, analytics, praxis (pp. 15–32). Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

[33] Weil, S. (1985). The Simone Weil Reader (G. A. Panichas, Ed.). New York, NY: Moyer Bell.

[34] Wiredu, K. (2004). A companion to African philosophy. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

[35] Young, I. M. (2004). Responsibility and global labor justice. The Journal of Political Philosophy, 12, 365–388.