Philosophizing the Americas (Paperback or Softback)

Jacoby Adeshei Carter is an associate professor of philosophy, and chair of the Department of Philosophy at Howard University. He is the director of the Alain Leroy Locke Society, author of African American Contributions to the Americas’ Cultures: Lectures by Alain Locke and co-editor of Philosophic Values and World Citizenship: Locke to Obama and Beyond and Insurrectionist Ethics: Radical Perspectives on Social Justice. He is also series editor of African American Philosophy and the African Diaspora, published by Palgrave/Macmillan.

Hernando A. Estévez was educated at DePaul University and Indiana University. He works on Latin American philosophy, political philosophy and continental philosophy. He is currently chair and professor of the Department of Philosophy, Arts and Literature, and former Dean of the School of Philosophy at Universidad de La Salle in Bogotá. Hernando is the editor and contributor of Teaching to Discern: forming connections, decolonizing perspectives (Bogotá: Ediciones UniSalle, 2019).

Stephanie Rivera Berruz is an associate professor of philosophy at Marquette University. She was the recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship for her work on Latin/a American philosophy for the academic year of 2017–2018. Her main research interests lie in Latin American philosophy and Latinx feminisms as well philosophy of race, gender, and sexuality. She recently co edited an anthology: Comparative Studies in Latin American and Asian Philosophies (2018), and her publications appear in Hypatia, Inter-American Journal of Philosophy, and Essays in Philosophy. Originally from Bayamon, Puerto Rico, Dr. Rivera Berruz has lived both inside and outside of the continental United States. She credits her migrations as inspirations for her interests in philosophies that explore myriad dimensions of identity.

Nadia V. Celis Salgado is a professor of Latin American, Caribbean and Latinx studies at Bowdoin College. She received her PhD in literature from Rutgers University, where she also specialized in gender and women’s studies. Her research explores embodiment, subjectivity and intimacy in Hispanic Caribbean literature and popular culture. Her publications include articles on Colombian Caribbean authors Marvel Moreno, Fanny Buitrago, and Gabriel García Márquez, as well as essays on dance and performance. Celis is the author of Cronica de un amor terrible: La historia secreta de la novia devuelta en la muerte anunciada de García Márquez (Lumen, 2023) and La rebelión de las niñas: El Caribe y la “conciencia corporal” (Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2015), which received the Nicolás Guillén Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association, and an Honorable Mention of the Premio Iberoamericano by LASA. She is also co-editor of the collection Lección errante: Mayra Santos–Febres y el Caribe contemporáneo (Isla Negra, 2011).

Tommy J. Curry is professor of philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests are in Africana philosophy, the Black radical tradition and Black male studies. He is author of The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood (Temple University Press 2017), which won the 2018 American Book Award. He is the author of Another white Man’s Burden: Josiah Royce’s Quest for a Philosophy of Racial Empire (SUNY Press 2018), and has re-published the forgotten philosophical works of William Ferris as The Philosophical Treatise of William H. Ferris: Selected Readings from The African Abroad or, His Evolution in Western Civilization (Rowman & Littlefield 2016). He is also the editor of the first book series dedicated to the study of Black males entitled Black Male Studies: A Series Exploring the Paradoxes of Racially Subjugated Males published by Temple University Press. Dr. Curry is currently co editing (with Daw-nay Evans) the forthcoming anthology Contemporary African American Philosophy: Where Do We Go from Here for Bloomsbury Publishing (2019).