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Abernathy, Ralph, 228, 240 Adelman, Bob, 11, 213 Adiele, Faith, 110 affirmative action, 125, 180–81, 220, 269n.6 African American Perspectives and Philosophical Traditions (Pittman), 18 African American philosophy: African Americans in graduate programs in 1960s and 1970s, 3–4, 15, 17, 49; “Alēthia on black scholar in white academy, 30–44; black philosophers leave profession, 45–46; black philosophical fiction, 21, 22, 31, 44–50; and crisis of American philosophy, 23–30; early African American philosophers , 15–16; first African American to receive Ph.D., 256n.14; first African American woman to receive Ph.D., 16; Johnson as philosophy student, 3–4, 8–23; Johnson ’s philosophical interests, 14; legitimacy of, 17–19; literature seen as legitimate site for philosophy in, 19, 47; as pluralist, 19; as political, 25; roots in nonacademic forms of writing, 19 African American Philosophy: Seventeen Conversations (Yancy), 18 African Americans: anti-intellectualism in black youth culture, 204; “bread and butter” approach to education of, 24; Buddhists, 3, 5, 105–26; cosmopolitanism of, 204; doctoral degrees awarded to, 166; education sought by, 9, 203–4; Evanston, Illinois, community, 9, 10; explosion in black popular culture, 163; firstgeneration college students, 33; in higher education, 1940–70, 10, 15, 162; idealized African past versus heritage of, 203, 207; Jewish-black relations, 223–24; Marxism’s influence on black reformers, 55–56; media representations of, 202–3; suburbanization of, 13–14, 164; widening class divisions among, 164; at World’s Parliament of Religion, 107–8. See also African American philosophy; Black Arts Movement ; Black Dharma; black liberation movement; black public intellectuals; civil rights movement; racism; slavery African Blood Brotherhood, 56 Afrocentricity, 12, 168, 169, 170 Albert, Peter J., 218 “Alēthia” (Johnson), 30–44; allusions to books in, 41–42; ambivalence toward phenomenology in, 40–41; autobiographical elements of, 45, 259n.44; Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” compared with, 43–44; dissatisfaction with tradition philosophical discourse in, 47; Kant in, 31–32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44; Oxherding Tale compared with, 143, 147; plot of, 31; primary locales of, 37; professor’s first vision of Wendy, 34–35; professor’s second vision of Wendy, 31, 37–40; Scheler in, 31, 34, 35, 36, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43; three moments of phenomenological insight in, 35; trope of homosexuality in, 39; Wendy’s multiple roles in, 42–43 Alexander the Great, 176 Alfau, Felipe, 171 Allen, Anita, 15, 46 Allen, Doug, 53, 257n.23 Allen, Richard, 159 Althusser, Louis, 57 “American Milk Bottle, The” (Johnson), 207 American Nazi Party, 232 American Negro Academy, 159 American Philosophical Association, 17, 18, 23, 50 analytic philosophy: black philosophers’ relationship to, 3, 23, 50; in crisis of American philosophy, 27–28; Johnson’s work as response to, 21; Marcuse’s criticism of, 100; Rorty’s criticism of, 48–49 Anxious Intellectuals (Michael), 162 293 I N D E X Appiah, Kwame Anthony, 6, 45–46, 167, 207 Aquinas, Saint Thomas, 234 Aristotle, 24–25, 101, 134, 249 Arnett, Benjamin William, 108 Augustine, Saint, 234, 236 bad faith, 82 Baker, Houston, 161, 174, 267n.23 Baker, Thomas Nelson, 16 Baldoquín, Hilda Gutiérrez, 110 Baldwin, James, 43–44 Banks, William, 161, 166 Baraka, Amiri (LeRoi Jones): and Congress of African Peoples, 52; Ellison criticized by, 174; Johnson influenced by, 20, 29, 54; speaks at Southern Illinois University, 29, 53, 54; Watts as influence on, 263n.8; Yahya of Dreamer compared with, 246 Barber, Michael, 41 Barrett, William, 26–27, 30, 32, 44, 46, 98–99, 109 Bayle, Pierre, 176 Bearing the Cross (Barrow), 220, 238 Beat Buddhism, 109, 263n.8 Being and Race (Johnson): on aesthetics of analytic philosophy, 27; on art and estrangement effect, 66; on metaphoric narrative method, 132; on multiple perspectives , 170; on naturalistic literature, 132, 172; on philosophically engaged fiction, 48; as revision of Johnson’s doctoral dissertation, 11, 22 Bell, Derrick, 5 Beloved (Morrison), 14, 172, 199 Beloved and the Middle Passage (Travis), 208 “Benito Cereno” (Melville), 185, 186, 195 “Be Peace Embodied” (Johnson), 214 Berkeley, George, 42 Bérubé, Michael, 163 Bhabha, Homi, 168, 169 Black Aesthetic, 15, 38, 174 black Americans. See African Americans Black Arts Movement: Ellison criticized by, 174; Johnson contrasts Ellison with, 172; Johnson influenced by, 2, 20, 21, 29–30, 255n.3, 258n.30; Johnson positions himself against, 171 “Black Buddha: Bringing the Tradition Home” (Rangdröl), 114 Black Culture and Black Consciousness (Levine), 112 “Black Demagogues and Pseudo-Scholars” (Gates), 161 Black Dharma, 105–26; beginnings...

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