Decolonizing American Philosophy

<p><b>Wide-ranging examination of American philosophy's ties to settler colonialism and its role as both an object and a force of decolonization.</b></p><p>In <i>Decolonizing American Philosophy</i> Corey McCall and Phillip McReynolds bring together leading scholars at the forefront of the field to ask: Can American philosophy as the product of a colonial enterprise be decolonized? Does American philosophy offer tools for decolonial projects? What might it mean to decolonize American philosophy and at the same time is it possible to consider American philosophy broadly construed as a part of a decolonizing project? The various perspectives included here contribute to long-simmering conversations about the scope purpose and future of American philosophy while also demonstrating that it is far from a unified homogeneous field. In drawing connections among various philosophical traditions in and of the Americas they collectively propose that the process of decolonization is not only something that needs <i>to be done</i> to American philosophy but also that it is something American philosophy already <i>does</i> or at least <i>can do</i> as a resource for resisting colonial and racist oppression.</p>