"Wide-ranging examination of American philosophy's ties to settler colonialism and its role as both an object and a force of decolonization"--.

• Contents
• Introduction
  • Notes
• Part One: The Terms of Decolonization
  • Chapter 1 Culture, Acquisitiveness, and Decolonial Philosophy
    • Colonial Acquisitiveness and Imperialism
    • Decolonization
    • Shedding Colonial Baggage
    • Notes
  • Chapter 2 Without Land, Decolonizing American Philosophy Is Impossible
    • A Note about Land
    • Indigenous Decolonizing Traditions
    • Land and Decolonization Today
    • The Settler Structure of American Philosophy
    • Conclusion: Without Land, No Decolonization
    • Notes
  • Chapter 3 Decolonizing the West
    • Place and Project
    • Limits and Possibilities in the Decolony
    • Sounds of Worldmaking
    • Deprojecting the West
    • Notes
• Part Two: Decolonizing the American Canon
  • Chapter 4 Enlightened Readers: Thomas Jefferson, Immanuel Kant, Jorge Juan, and Antonio de Ulloa
    • We Are What We Read
    • Jefferson: The Father and Librarian of the New Republic
    • The Science of Liberty: Juan and Ulloa’s Reporting on the Conditions of the Spanish Colonies
    • Kant’s (Un)critical Reading
    • Conclusion: On the Generosity of the Reader
    • Notes
  • Chapter 5 Writing Loss: On Emerson, Du Bois, and America
    • The First-Person Political: American Genealogies, Heroic Representation, and the Question of Decolonization
    • Two Scenes of Loss: How Emerson and Du Bois Represent the Experience of Grief and the Idea of America
    • Conclusion: A Politics of Loss?
    • Note
  • Chapter 6 Latina Feminist Engagements with US Pragmatism: Interrogating Identity, Realism, and Representation
    • Latina Feminist Engagement with US Pragmatism
    • Latina Feminist Decolonial Theorizing
    • Notes
  • Chapter 7 Dewey, Wynter, and Césaire: Race, Colonialism, and “The Science of the Word”
    • Pragmatism’s Colonial Legacy
    • Notes
• Part Three: Expanding the American Canon
  • Chapter 8 The Social Ontology of Care among Filipina Dependency Workers: Kittay, Addams, and a Transnational Doulia Ethics of Care
    • Examining the Social Role of the Doulia Principle
    • Addams and the Social Ethics of Dependency
    • Affectionate Interpretation and Sympathetic Understanding as a Public Ethos of Care
    • Affectionate Interpretation as a Transnational Public Ethos of Care
    • Toward a Transnational Doulia Principle: Making Visible Transnational Responsibilities
    • Notes
  • Chapter 9 Creolization and Playful Sabotage at the Brink of Politics in Earl Lovelace’s The Dragon Can’t Dance
    • Creolization as Bricolage
    • Creolization as a Liminal Dialectic
    • Creolization as Carnival/Play
    • Dancing the Dragon on the Brink of Politics
    • Concluding Remarks
    • Notes
  • Chapter 10 Decolonizing Mariátegui as a Prelude to Decolonizing Latin American Philosophy
    • The Genealogy of Mariátegui’s Thought: Sorelian Marxism and Peruvian Indigenism
    • Decolonizing Strategies and Tools in Mariátegui’s Works
    • Reading Mariátegui through a Decolonial Lens
    • Achieving and Transcending Mariátegui’s Decolonial Project
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
  • Chapter 11 Distal versus Proximal: Howard Thurman’s Jesus and the Disinherited as a Proximal Epistemology
    • Background
    • Value of Knowledge
    • Distal versus Proximal
    • Thurman’s Framework and Method of Interrogation
    • Thurman’s Interrogation of the Perceptual Framework
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
• Contributors
• Index