African American Philosophy and the African Diaspora / African American Contributions to the Americas' Cultures

Introduction
PART I. The Negro's Contribution to the Culture of the Americas
Lecture 1. Race, Culture, and Democracy Lecture 2. The African Heritage and Its Cultural Significance Lecture 3. The Negro's Position in North American Culture Lecture 4.The Negro's Sociological Position in the United States Lecture 5. Negro Achievement in the United States Lecture 6. The Negro in the Three Americas
PART II. "Like Rum in the Punch": The Quest for Cultural Democracy
I. Critical Pragmatism II. Three Inter-American Frameworks: Slavery, Race, and Democracy A. An Inter-American Philosophy of Slavery B. An Inter-American Philosophy of Race C. An Inter-American Philosophy of Democracy D. The Future Prospects of Inter-American Philosophy III. African American Contributions in the Americas: Race, Culture, Art and Literature A. Locke's Conception of Race B. The Concept of Ethnic Race C. Imperialism and Political Conceptions of Race D. Locke's Conception of Culture E. Afrodescendant Peoples Cultural Contributions to Art and Literature F. Racial Cultural Contributions: Understanding the Place of Afrodescendant Peoples in the Americas' Cultures IV. Democracy's Unfinished Business V. Conclusion

Jacoby Adeshei Carter is Associate Professor of Philosophy at City University of New York, John Jay College, USA. His research interests include Africana philosophy, social and political philosophy, and philosophy of race and pragmatism, especially the philosophy of Alain Locke. He is Director of the Alain Leroy Locke Society and Co-editor of the African American Philosophy and the African Diaspora series published by Palgrave Macmillan.