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Creating a Black Vernacular Philosophy explores how everyday Black
vernacular practices, developed to negotiate survival and joy, can
be understood as philosophy in their own right. Devonya N. Havis
argues that many unique cultural and intellectual practices of
African diasporic communities have done the work of traditional
philosophies. Focusing on creative practices that take place within
Black American diasporic cultures via narratives, the blues, jazz,
work songs, and other expressive forms, this book articulates a
form of Black vernacular Philosophy that is centered within and
emerges from meaning structures cultivated by Black communities.
These distinct philosophical practices, running parallel with and
often improvising on European philosophy, should be acknowledged
for their rigorous theoretical formation and for their disruption
of traditional Western philosophical ontologies.
Addressing Ableism is a set of philosophical meditations outlining
the scale and scope of ableism. By explicating concepts like
experience, diagnosis, precariousness, and prosthesis, Scuro maps
out the institutionalized and intergenerational forms of this bias
as it is analogous and yet also distinct from other kinds of
dehumanization, discrimination, and oppression. This project also
includes a dialogical chapter on intersectionality with Devonya
Havis and Lydia Brown, a philosopher and writer/activist
respectively. Utilizing theorists like Judith Butler, Tobin
Siebers, Emmanuel Levinas, and Hannah Arendt to address ableism,
Scuro thoroughly critiques the neoliberal culture and politics that
underwrites ableist affections and phobias. This project exposes
the many material and non-material harms of ableism, and it offers
multiple avenues to better confront and resist ableism in its many
forms. Scuro provides crucial insights into the many uninhabitable
and unsustainable effects of ableism and how we might revise our
intentions and desires for the sake of a less ableist world.
Addressing Ableism is a set of philosophical meditations outlining
the scale and scope of ableism. By explicating concepts like
experience, diagnosis, precariousness, and prosthesis, Scuro maps
out the institutionalized and intergenerational forms of this bias
as it is analogous and yet also distinct from other kinds of
dehumanization, discrimination, and oppression. This project also
includes a dialogical chapter on intersectionality with Devonya
Havis and Lydia Brown, a philosopher and writer/activist
respectively. Utilizing theorists like Judith Butler, Tobin
Siebers, Emmanuel Levinas, and Hannah Arendt to address ableism,
Scuro thoroughly critiques the neoliberal culture and politics that
underwrites ableist affections and phobias. This project exposes
the many material and non-material harms of ableism, and it offers
multiple avenues to better confront and resist ableism in its many
forms. Scuro provides crucial insights into the many uninhabitable
and unsustainable effects of ableism and how we might revise our
intentions and desires for the sake of a less ableist world.
Knowledge emerges from contexts, which are shaped by people's
experiences. The varied essays in Thinking the US South:
Contemporary Philosophy from Southern Perspectives demonstrate that
Southern identities, borders, and practices play an important but
unacknowledged role in ethical, political, emotional, and global
issues connected to knowledge production. Not merely one
geographical region among others, the US South is sometimes a
fantasy and other times a nightmare, but it is always a prominent
component of the American national imaginary. In connection with
the Global North and Global South, the US South provides a valuable
perspective from which to explore race, class, gender, and other
inter- and intra-American differences. The result is a fresh look
at how identity is constituted; the role of place, ancestors, and
belonging in identity formation; the impact of regional differences
on what counts as political resistance; the ways that affect and
emotional labor circulate; practices of boundary policing,
deportation, and mourning; issues of disability and slowness;
racial and other forms of suffering; and above all, the question of
whether and how doing philosophy changes when done from Southern
standpoints. Examining racist tropes, Indigenous land claims, Black
Southern philosophical perspectives, migrant labor, and more, this
incisive anthology makes clear that roots matter.
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