Introduction Lewis R. Gordon and Jane Anna Gordon Acknowledgments PART I: The Geopoliticality of African-American Epistemic Struggles Chapter 1: African-American Philosophy, Race, and teh Geography of Reason Lewis R. Gordon Chapter 2: Toward a Critique of Continental Reason: Africana Studies and the Decolonization of Imperial Cartographies in the Americas Nelson Maldonado-Torres Chapter 3: The Idea of Post-European Science: An Essay on Phenomenology and Africana Studies Kenneth Danziger Knies Chapter 4: On How We Mistook the Map for the Territory, and Re-Imprisoned Ourselves in Our Unbearable Wrongness of Being, of Desetre: Black Studies Toward the Human Project Sylvia Wynter PART II: Transfigurations of African-American Being and Doing Chapter 5: Pedagogy and the Philosophical Anthropology of African-American Slave Culture Stephen Nathan Haymes Chapter 6: Double Consciousness and the Problem of Political Legitimacy Jane Anna Gordon Chapter 7: On the Possibilities of Posthumanism, or How to Think Queerly in an Antiblack World David Ross Fryer Chapter 8: Philosophy in the African Tradition of Resistance: Issues of Human Freedom and Human Flourishing Maulana Karenga References Index About the Editors and Contributors