Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XI, 225 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780199874354
,
0199874352
Content:
The invention of Africa -- Illusions of race -- Topologies of nativism -- The myth of an African world -- Ethnophilosophy and it critics -- Old gods, new worlds -- The postcolonial and the postmodern -- Altered states -- African identities.
Content:
The beating of Rodney King and the resulting riots in South Central Los Angeles. The violent clash between Hasidim and African-Americans in Crown Heights. The boats of Haitian refugees being turned away from the Land of Opportunity. These are among the many racially-charged images that have burst across our television screens in the last year alone, images that show that for all our complacent beliefs in a melting-pot society, race is as much of a problem as ever in America. In this vastly important, widely-acclaimed volume, Kwame Anthony Appiah, a Ghanaian philosopher who now teaches at Harva
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-219) and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0195068521
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Appiah, Kwame Anthony, 1954 - In my father's house New York [u.a.] : Oxford University Press, 1993 ISBN 0195068521
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0195068513
Language:
English
Subjects:
Philosophy
Keywords:
Afrika
;
Kulturphilosophie
Author information:
Appiah, Kwame Anthony 1954-
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