Reframing the Practice of Philosophy: Bodies of Color, Bodies of Knowledge

Reflections and analysis of leading Latin-American and African-American philosophers on their identity within the field of philosophy. This daring and bold philosophical book is the first of its kind to create a textual space where African American and Latin American philosophers voice the complex range of their philosophical and meta-philosophical concerns, approaches, and visions. The voices within this book protest, philosophize, and theorize from their own standpoints, delineating the specific existential, philosophical, and professional problems they face as minority philosophical voices. Both analytically and autobiographically, the philosophers included here explore issues that grow out of their specific philosophical praxes, issues that they take to be philosophically intelligible and relevant—issues that re-frame the terrain of mainstream philosophical legitimacy. The voices within this text constitute a site of philosophical solidarity, one designed to re-frame the practice of philosophy and legitimate the complex philosophical concerns of both African American and Latin American philosophers.