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61. The CLR James Journal: Volume > 17 > Issue: 1
Elizabeth A. Hoppe How to Persuade Those Who Will Not Listen: Plato, Freire, and hooks on Revolutionary Dialogue
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Western philosophy owes its origin to the dialogues of Plato. Not only does Plato provide us with a methodology that remains significant today, his views in many ways correspond to the revolutionary philosophies of Paulo Freire and bell hooks. In reflecting on Plato's view of education in the Cave Allegory in Book VII of the Republic (1991), one can readily see its affinity with Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed (2009); however, it is also important to keep in mind that the two philosophers have different goals. While Plato focuses on metaphysics and the desire for human beings to move away from the realm of becoming toward that of being, Freire espouses the need for a revolutionary education that will transform the world by making it fully human. Nevertheless they both strive for a revolutionary form of education, and they both encounter similar problems in that people do not always heed the call for transformative ways of thinking. This paper begins by examining the ways in which Plato and Freire address the strengths and limitations of the dialogical method. The question then becomes: how do we solve some of the problems associated with the dilemmas that dialogue may confront? By appealing to bell hooks' Feminist Theory from Margin to Center (2000), I attempt to demonstrate how her method of consciousness-raising can be utilized as a practical application to the dialogical methods of both Plato and Freire in order to create a type of dialogue that can be truly transformative.
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Nigel C. Gibson Speaking the Truth in Uncertain Times: Creating solidarity with the shack dwellers movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo
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The impetus for this paper was the attack on the shack dweller movement in South Africa in September 2009. One question that emerged from the attack is what can committed intellectuals do to create active solidarity with movements of "the damned of the earth" in times of crisis. Thinldng of Fanon's critique of middle class anticolonial intellectual in The Wretched of the Earth and of Abahlali's insistence that their thinldng counts, the paper considers Fanon concept of political education rejecting the idea that it is something that a vanguard party, an avant garde artist, a self-appointed leader, the military or even a community educator provides. Instead, the paper advocates a radical ethical move toward a constant dialogue that encourages and appreciates the reason of those so often excluded from decision making. But while an ethical shift toward lived experience is a usefiil foundation, intellectual labor applies itself to a search for new beginnings through developing an intellectual space of action where, potentially, the reflecting "consciousness full of contradictions" can help articulate itsphilosophical principles and realize its notion in fiercely democratic grassroots movements which Abahlali's president, S'bu Zikode, calls a "living communism."One may recall that China and the tables began to dance when the rest of the world appeared to be standing still—pour encourager les autres.Marx, Capital (1977: 164)
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Michael J. Monahan Emancipatory Affect: bell hooks on Love and Liberation
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Love is a recurring theme in bell hooks' thought, where it is explicitly linked to her understanding of freedom and liberation. In this essay, I will bring together some of hooks' most important writings on love in order to clarify her account of the relationship between love and liberation. I will argue that, for hooks, the practice of love and the practice of freedom are inextricably connected, and any liberatory project must be undertaken within the context of an ethics of love.
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Paget Henry Gender and Africana Phenomenology
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This paper examines the long dialogue between Africana phenomenology and Africana feminism. In particular, it examines the exchanges between WEB Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, Lewis Gordon and Sylvia Wynter on the one hand, and a number of black feminists on the other, including bell hooks, Natasha Barnes, Farrah Griffin, and Joy James. The primary outcome of the survey of these exchanges is that the pro-feminist spaces created by black male phenomenologists have all been insufficient for the full representation of the black female voice. In the words of Sylvia Wynter, such a full representation can only come through "a feminism in its own name".
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Tennille Allen I Didn't Let Everybody Come in My House: Exploring bell hooks' Notion of the Homeplace
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In this paper, I use hooks' idea of the homeplace to analyze what may look like a retreat into the home as an act of resistance to the multiple gazes that moderate- and low-income Black women face in their everyday lives as residents of a low-income Black neighborhood in Chicago. This research employs ethnographic methods to explore the lived experiences of African American women living in Lake Parc Place, a mixed-income public housing development.Five years of participant observation data, a series of longitudinal in-depth interviews with seven women, and 29 in-depth semi-structured interviews are used to analyze the meanings that these women attached to their homes and how these interacted with and shaped their social relationships with their neighbors asthey negotiated several sources of surveillance and scrutiny once they left their apartments.
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Marisa Parham Breadfruit, Time and Again: Glissant Reads Faulkner in the World Relation
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Adlai Murdoch Glissant’s Opacité and the De-Nationalization of Identity
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Clevis Headley Glissant’s Existential Ontology of Difference
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John E. Drabinski Introduction: Theorizing Glissant, Creolizing Philosophy
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Michael Monahan On the Politics of Purity: A Reply to Critics
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John Drabinski Aesthetics and the Abyss: Between Césaire and Lamming
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Seanna Sumalee Oakley “InCitation to the Chance: Glissant, Citation, Intention, and Interpretation”
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Hanétha Vété-Congolo The Ripening’s Epic Realism and the Tragic Martinican Unfulfilled Political Emancipation
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Nick Nesbitt Edouard Glissant and the Poetics of Truth
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Paget Henry Thanks for Okonkwo and Ezeula: A Tribute to Chinua Achebe
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Marilyn Nissim-Sabat Response to Jane Anna Gordon
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Matthew Quest “Every Cook Can Govern”: Direct Democracy, Workers’ Self Management & the Creative Foundations of C.L.R. James’ Political Thought
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Patricia A. West Castaways, Cabins, and Democracy: C.L.R. James and His Radical Reader Response to Moby Dick
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George K. Danns C.L.R. James’s Party Politics and Political Parties in Guyana
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Ken Lawrence C.L.R. James and W.E.B. Du Bois: Contributions to the Past, Present, and Future of Unorthodox Marxism