Abstract

The modern archives of the Euro-American philosophical tradition are not, generally speaking, kind to “the Rest of Us,” apologies to Chinweizu (1975). If you are, like me, African-descended, racially typed “black,” some of whose forebears were enslaved, most of whom are ex-colonized, but who possess a modicum of historical consciousness, reading, teaching, and writing about the leading lights of those archives cannot but be a fraught engagement, indeed.