Here Is a Table : A Philosophical Essay on History and Race in South Africa.

Intro -- Here is a Table A Philosophical Essay on History and Race/ism -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Incwadi ngokufinyeziwe -- Introduction -- Some notes on our method -- Understanding Race/ism -- The Argument of this Book -- The Structure of the Book -- References -- I. Racism and the Marginality of African Philosophy in South Africa -- Introduction -- The Study of Racism and Philosophy in South Africa -- Racism, the Eurocentric University and the Marginality of African Philosophy in South Africa -- A Brief History of Western Education in South Africa -- A Brief History of Philosophy in South Africa -- Some General Characteristics -- The Afrikaans-Continental Tradition -- The Anglo-Saxon Tradition -- The Contemporary Practice of Philosophy and the Marginality of African Philosophy -- Developments in Curricula and Research Agendas -- Conclusion -- References -- II. African Philosophical Hermeneutics: The Critique of Eurocentrism and Ubuntu as a Philopraxis for Liberation -- African Philosophical Hermeneutics -- The Critique of Eurocentrism -- The Indigenous Re-Orientation of Philosophic Work: Ubuntu as a Philopraxis for Liberation -- Some background notes concerning "Ubuntu" in the "new" South Africa -- Our approach -- African Philosophy of Race through Ubuntu -- Ubuntu Philosophy -- Philosophy in Ubuntu -- The ontology of ubu- -- Umu- and the epistemology of -ntu: being human vs human-being -- -ness versus -ism -- Ubuntu Philosophical Anthropology and the Concept of Race -- Umuntu ngumuntu nga Bantu -- Ngu muntu or akusi umuntu? -- Ubuntu as a Philopraxis for Liberation -- References -- III. The Racism of History in South Africa -- History and Philosophy -- What is History? -- What are Historical Facts? -- The Interpretation of History and Liberation -- South African Historiography.

The British Imperialist School -- The Settler School -- Afrikaner Nationalist -- Die Groot Trek (The Great Trek) -- (Bloedrivier) The Battle of Blood River -- The Anglo-Boer war -- English Liberal-Pluralist School -- Neo-Marxist - Radical School -- Prolegomenon to an Africanist Historiography in South Africa -- Conclusion -- References -- IV. A Critique of the Analytic Conception Of Race -- Introduction -- Analytic Philosophy: General Characteristics -- Some general characteristics of Analytic Philosophy -- Analytic Philosophy and History -- Analytic Philosophy And Liberalism -- Metaphysics and Theory -- Empiricism and Liberalism -- A Critique of Analytic Conceptions - The Case of South Africa -- Eusebius McKaiser's "Heard the One About Blacks Who Can't Be Racist?" -- McKaiser's Appraisal and Criticism of the Argument -- Criticism 1 "The argument fails by its own standard" -- Criticism 2 "The argument is an insult to Blacks rather than a complement" -- Criticism 3 "The definition of racism was wrong all along" -- Our Appraisal of the BCBR Argument and Critique of McKaiser's Account -- Statement 1: "whites are ugly" -- Statement 2: "Whites are Stupid" -- Tom Martin's Own-Race-Absent Racism -- Martin's Argument -- 1. The operativity of ORA in theory -- 2. The Operativity of ORA in Practice -- Conclusion -- Critique -- 1. Issues Related to Historicity and Method -- 2. Triviality -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- V. An African Philosophical Critique of the Liberal Conception of Non-Racialism -- Introduction -- Some Africanist Notes on White Liberalism -- Sobukwe's Africanist Conception of Racism -- Critique: Against Liberal Non-Racialism- Multi-Racialism as the New White Supremacy -- Sobukwe's Non-Racialism as an Anti-Racism and a Basis for Today's Struggle.

The African Carpenter - Sobukwe's Tree Becomes a Table: Biko's Black Consciousness Critique of Non-Racialism -- Introduction -- Biko's Conception of Racism -- Black Consciousness: Anti-Racist Racialism or Non-Racial Anti-Racism? -- Black Consciousness as Anti-"non-racialist" Anti-Racism -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.

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