Bringing together canonical philosophical texts from African, African-American, Afro-Caribbean, and Black European thinkers, this major new anthology is designed to serve both as a textbook and as the authoritative reference volume in Africana philosophical and cultural studies.

Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bucknell University. His teaching and research interests are in critical social theory, modern European philosophy, and Africana philosophy. His publications include Postcolonial African Philosophy: A Critical Reader (1997), and Race and the Enlightenment (1996), both with Blackwell Publishers.