In My Father's House : Africa in the Philosophy of Culture, Paperback

by Kwame Anthony Appiah

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In My Father's House : Africa in the Philosophy of Culture, Paperback by Appiah, Kwame Anthony, ISBN 0195068521, ISBN-13 9780195068528, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US The beating of Rodney King and the resulting riots in South Central Los Angeles. The violent clash between Hasidim and African-Americans in Crown Heights. The boats of Haitian refugees being turned away from the Land of Opportunity. These are among the many racially-charged images that have burst across our television screens in the last year alone, images that show that for all our complacent beliefs in a melting-pot society, race is as much of a problem as ever in America. In this vastly important, widely-acclaimed volume, Kwame Anthony Appiah, a Ghanaian philosopher who now teaches at Harvard, explores, in his words, "the possibilities and pitfalls of an African identity in the late twentieth century." In the process he sheds new light on what it means to be an African-American, on the many preconceptions that have muddled discussions of race, Africa, and Afrocentrism since the end of the nineteenth century, and, in the end, to move beyond the idea of race. In My Father's House is especially wide-ranging, covering everything from Pan Africanism, to the works of early African-American intellectuals such as Alexander Crummell and . Du Bois, to the ways in which African identity influences African literature. In his discussion of the latter subject, Appiah demonstrates how attempts to construct a uniquel

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Year: 1993
• Binding: Paperback
• ISBN: 9780195068528
• Condition: Fine

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