Includes bibliographical references Index

Bringing together canonical philosophical texts from African, African-American, Afro-Caribbean, and Black European thinkers, this major new anthology is designed to serve both as a textbook and as the authoritative reference volume in Africana philosophical and cultural studies. The texts collected here also have enormous historical range: from traditional to modern, precolonial through colonial to postcolonial; and from the slave period through emancipation and civil Rights movements to the postmodern. Within this, they represent a variety of cultural and ideological viewpoints, including secular, feminist, Christian, Islamic, and animist perspectives.