Description:
This anthology demonstrates that US Southern identities, borders, and practices play an important but unacknowledged role in ethical, political, emotional, and global issues connected to knowledge production.
Review Quotes: "However much philosophy claims the universal standpoint, it is rooted in complex social identities with rich haunted histories. Few of these identities are as obscure as the Southern. This volume of essays opens a new field of discourse in academic philosophy by exploring classic and emerging themes from Dixieland to the Global South, including: hubristic insult and violations of etiquette, mournful nostalgia and joyful remembrances of 'grandmother metaphysics, ' mythic attachments to land and messy narratives of purity, global economies of sympathy, and roadside memorials of loss migrants. The essays tell stories of Black rural traditions in urban Southern culture and re-positionings of double consciousness, of plantation logics and the truth-telling of Spirituals and Black Ancestral discourses; they reevaluate the Blues Man along with white trash, and what it means to be perceived to be slow. This book is indeed a milestone for philosophy in, of, and regarding the South." --Cynthia Willett, coauthor of Uproarious: How Feminists and Other Subversive Comics Speak Truth
"This is a groundbreaking book. Being a southern philosopher myself, I found it to be an illuminating, refreshing, candid, and honest account of philosophy in and of the south." --Noëlle McAfee, author of Fear of Breakdown: Politics and Psychoanalysis "Thanks to Thinking the US South, I will never think about the US South in the same way again." --Amy R. Martin, Southern Review of Books