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“Now, How You Sound”: Considering a Different Philosophical Praxis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Devonya N. Havis
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Abstract

This paper is a tentative attempt to set out some of the basic points for articulating an alternative philosophical praxis derived from some Black women's lives and experiences. It begins with an explanation of delegitimating processes and the importance of not dividing theory from practice. The essay offers six practices that outline the unique critical attitude that constitutes philosophical practices rooted in Black women's lived experience and asks “How we sound” when doing academic philosophy.

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Hypatia , Volume 29 , Issue 1: Special Issue: Interstices: Inheriting Women of Color Feminist Philosophy , Winter 2014 , pp. 237 - 252
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Copyright © 2014 by Hypatia, Inc.

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Footnotes

I would like to acknowledge Rebecca Redwood French for her insistent challenges and queries. Both served to significantly enhance the essay.

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