Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

Prolegomenon to a Tradition: What is American Philosophy?.

Part I: Origin and Teleology.

Part II: Minds and Selves.

Part III: Knowledge and Inquiry.

Part IV: Community and Power.

Part V: Slavery and Freedom.

Part VI: Democracy and Utopia.

Index.

"Leonard Harris, Scott L. Pratt, and Anne S. Waters have produced
an anthology nurtured by a profound epistemological and cultural
value pluralism. The text unapologetically reveals a diversity of
philosophical perspectives and traditions previously marginalized
by intellectual and political normative forces that have valorized
a few white men as the 'oracle voices' of American
philosophy. This new, relevant, and highly engaging anthology will
force academic and cultural gatekeepers to radically reassess what
it means 'to know and to be,' 'to do American
philosophy,' 'to be an American,' and
'to live democratically." George Yancy, Duquesne University
and editor of Cornel West: A Critical Reader (Blackwell
2001)

Leonard Harris is Professor of Philosophy Professor at Purdue University. of Philosophy, He is editor of Racism (1999), The Critical Pragmatism of Alain Locke, (1999) and co-editor of Exploitation and Exclusion: Race and Class in Contemporary US Society (1992).

Scott Pratt is Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon. He is co-editor of The Philosophy of Cadwallader Colden (forthcoming).

Anne Waters is Assistant Professor at Texas Woman's University. She is the editor of American Indian Thought: A Philosophical Reader (Blackwell, forthcoming). She is also co-editor of Hypatia, Journal of Feminist Philosophy and is on the editorial board of Ayaanwayaamizin: An International Indigenist Philosophy Journal, and the Radical Philosophy Review.

L. Harris, Purdue University; A. S. Waters, State University of New York at Binghamton