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exploitation as well as freedom, emancipation, and decolonization. Re ection about these areas often appears in
philosophical texts, but also in a plethora of other genres such as literature, music, and historical writings. The CPA
invites theoretical engagements with all such questions, thematic areas, and genres with emphasis on any given
 
discipline or eld, but with a common interest in shifting the geography of reason, by which we mean
 
approaching the Caribbean and the global south in general as zones of sustainable practices and knowledges.

HIGHLIGHTS

CPA 2019
SHIFTING THE GEOGRAPHY OF REASON XVI:

RESISTANCE, REPARATION, RENEWAL

June 6–8
BROWN UNIVERSITY
Providence, Rhode Island, USA
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CPA 2019 SUMMER SCHOOL

AT WILLIAMS COLLEGE
JUNE 16-23, 2019

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The CPA 2018
Shifting the Geography of Reason XV:
Modes de savoir, passé et présent / Ways of Knowing, Past and Present
in collaboration with La Société sénégalaise de philosophie (SOSEPHI) at
the Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar (UCAD),

was held in Dakar, Sénégal

June 20–22, 2018
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CPA 2019 Awards
Press Release
The Caribbean Philosophical Association is pleased to announce the 2019 recipients of the association’s awards
for contributions to philosophical thought, literature, and mentorship:
 
The Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Catherine Walsh
 
Frantz Fanon Outstanding Achievements Award
Vijay Prashad
 
Nicolás Guillén Lifetime Achievement Award
Kamau Brathwaite
Robin D.G. Kelley
  

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Stuart Hall Outstanding Mentorship Award

Hazel V. Carby
 
Frantz Fanon Outstanding Book
Ato Sekyi-Otu, Left Universalism, Africacentric Essays. Routledge, 2018
 
Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Award
Phillip Barron, What Comes from a Thing.  Fourteen Hills Press, 2015
Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Heaven. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015
  
The selections are made annually by the Caribbean Philosophical Association’s Awards Committee, which
consists of all prior recipients of the Frantz Fanon and the Nicolás Guillén Awards (and, as of 2019, the Stuart
Hall Award) and an appointed senior scholar and an appointed junior scholar.   For more information, please
consult:
For detailed information on the Frantz Fanon Prize Recipients, click here (the-frantz-fanon-award.html).
For detailed information on the Nicolas Guillen Prize Recipients, click here (nichol-s-guill-n-award.html).
For detailed information on the Stuart Hall Prize Recipients, click here. (stuart-hall-award.html)
For detailed information on the Anna Julia Cooper Award Recipients, click here (anna-julia-copper-award.html). 
For detailed information on the Claudia Jones Award Recipients, click here. (the-claudia-jones-award.html)

The award ceremony will take place at the Caribbean Philosophical Association’s international conference, June
6 – 8, 2019, at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. For more information about the conference, click
here.  (cpa-2019.html)

CPA BOOK SERIES: Creolizing the Canon

(https://www.rowmaninternational.com/our-
publishing/series/creolizing-the-canon/)
CPA BOOK SERIES: Global Critical Caribbean Thought
(https://www.rowmaninternational.com/our-
publishing/series/global-critical-caribbean-thought/) 

Letter from the President, Neil Roberts

Dear Caribbean Philosophical Association Members:
I write you now near the beginning of my three-year term as President of our organization. I am delighted to
share this leadership period with the new Vice-President, Doug Ficek. Doug formerly served as the Secretary of
Fanon Studies and Chair of Social Media, Communications and Design from 2013-16, and he’s a longtime
member whose acumen, collegiality, and unwavering dedication to the CPA will be an extraordinary bene t to us
all. Click here to read more... (letter-from-the-president.html)

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Existentialism from a Global Perspective

The Caribbean Philosophical Association meets with the Simone de Beauvoir Society and the North American
Jean-Paul Sartre Society every ve with the theme of shifting the geography of reason through exploring diverse
lineages of existentialism. Our next meeting will take place in the summer of 2019. 
The following is a non-exhaustive list of existentialists from the Global South and existentialist of color that offers
a very different portrait of existential philosophy, thought, and artistic work beyond what is often taught in
supposedly mainstream courses on existentialism and thus should emerge in discussions at this meeting and
future research and courses in this eld:
Algeria*
Mohammed Arkoun (1928–2010)
Assia Djebar
Mohammed Chaouki Zine
Antigua
Charles Wm. Ephraim (1941–2011)
Paget Henry
Jamaica Kincaid
Argentina
Carlos Astrada (1894–1970)
Jorgé Luis Borges (1889–1986)
Carlos Cossio (1903–1987)
Alejandro Korn (1860–1936)
Francisco Romero (1891–1962)
Australia  
Sara Ahmed (also UK)
Danielle Davis
Barbados
Kamau Braithwaite (and USA)
levis Headly (and USA)
George Lamming 
Brazil
Raimundo de Farias Brito (1862–1917)
Nilton Campos (1898–1963)
Creusa Capalbo
Paulo Freire (1921–1997)
Abdias do Nascimento (March 14, 1914 – May 23, 2011)
Ernildo Stein 
Cameroon
Elias Bongmba (also USA)
Nathalie Etoke (also USA)
Achille Mbembe (also South Africa)
Chile
Enrique Molina Garmendia (1871-1964)
Jorge Millas (1917-1982)
Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) 
China
He Lin (1902-1995)
Liang Shuming (1893-1988)
Lu Xun / Zhou Shuren (1881-1936)
Mencius (c.372-289 BCE)
Pan Pingge (1610-1677)
Wang Ji (1498-1583)
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Wang Xuefu 
Wang Yangming (1472-1529) 
Xiong Shili (1885-1968) 
Colombia
Gonzalo Arango Arias (1931–1976)
Fernando González Ochoa (1895 –1964)
Oscar Guardiola-Rivera (also UK)
Cuba
Alejo Carpentier (1904–1980)
Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista (1902-1989) 
Dominican Republic
Junot Díaz (also USA)
Egypt
Abdel-Rahman Badawi (1917–2002)
Taha Husayn (1889–1973)
Eritrea
Tsenay Serequeberhan (also USA)
France
Jean-Paul Rocchi (also Guadeloupe) 
French Guiana 
Léon-Gontran Damas (1912–1978)
Ghana
Ayikwei Armah
Guadeloupe
Simone Schwarz-Bart 
Guyana
Wilson Harris (also UK)
Haiti 
Edwidge Danticat (also USA)
Jean-Price Mars (1876-1969) 
Jacques Roumain (1907-1944) 
India
Sri Aurobindo (1872 –1950)
Rabindranth Tagore (1861 –1941)
Iraq
Abd al-Wahhab al-Bayati (1926 –1999)
Iran
Ali Shariati (1933–1977)
Jamaica
Lewis Gordon (also USA)
Claude McKay (1889-1948) 
LaRose Parris (known primarily in the USA) 
Japan
Masao Abe (1915-2006)
Nishitani Keiji (1900-1990)
Kenya
Abdul JanMohamed (also USA)
Wandia Njoya
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
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Lebanon
Layla Baalbakki
Suhayl Idris (?–2008)
Charles Malik           
Martinique 
Aimé Césaire
Suzanne Césaire
Raphael Con ant
Frantz Fanon [also Algeria] (1925–1961)
Mexico
Antonio Caso (1883–1946)
José Gaos (1900–1969)
Octavio Paz (1914–1998)
Jorge Portilla (1919–1963)
Samuel Ramos (1897–1959)
Emilio Uranga (1921–1988) 
Luis Villoro (1922– )
Leopoldo Zea (1912–2004)
New Zealand
Garrick Cooper
Nigeria
Chinua Achebe (1930–2013)
F. Abiola Irele (also USA)
Fela Kuti (1938–1997)
Palestine
Ghassan Kanafani [also Lebanon] (1936–1972)
Peru
Augusto Salazar Bondy (1925–1974)
José Carlos Mariátegui (1894–1930) 
(See also Gloria M. Comesaña-Santalices) 
Senegal
Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906–2001) 
Spain**
Gloria M. Comesaña-Santalices (known primarily in Peru)
Ortega Y Gasset  (1883–1955)
Don Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936)             
South Africa
Steven Bantu Biko (1946–1977)
Rozena Maart (also Canada)
Noël Chabani Manganyi
P. Mabogo More
Trinidad and Tobago
Kris Sealy
United States***
Linda Martín Alcoff (also Panama)        
Mole Asante 
James Baldwin (1924–1987)
Robert Birt
Frederick Douglass (c. 1818–1895)
W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963)
Ralph Ellison (1914–1994)

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Kathryn Gines
Lorraine Hansberry (1930–1965)
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Floyd Hayes, III
Stephen Haymes
Charles Johnson
Maulana Karenga
William R. Jones (1933–2012)
Nella Larson (1891–1964)
Monifa Love
Nelson Maldonado-Torres
Jacquelyn Martinez
Toni Morrison
Lucius T. Outlaw
J. Deotis Roberts
Howard Thurman (1899–1981)
Dwayne Tunstall
Cornel West
Richard Wright [also France]  (1908–1960)
George Yancy
Naomi Zack           
Uruguay
Carlos Vaz Ferreira
José Enriqué Rodó
Vietnam            
Hien Thu Luong
Ly Chanh Trung
Nguyen Van Trung
Thich Nhat Hanh
Tran Thái Dinh (1921-2005)
All of these philosophers, social theorists, and artists were in dialogue with or explored the works of European
and Euro-American existentialists such as Hazel Barnes, Simone de Beauvoir, Maurice Blanchot, Albert Camus,
Jacques Derrida (depending on how Deconstruction is read), Søren Kierkegaard, Karl Jaspers, Martin Heidegger,
Gabriel Marcel, Maxine Greene, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Jean-Paul Sartre.  The dialogue that will emerge from the
above broader portrait should stimulate a more rich conception of existential thought for future generations.
Please also check out the list of laureates for the Caribbean Philosophical Association’s Fanon and Guillén
Awards by clicking here.
Some useful recent publications re ecting a broader portrait of existential thought:
George Cotkin, Existential America.  Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
Yoav Di-Capua, “Arab Existentialism: An Invisible Chapter in the Intellectual History of Decolonization,” The
American Historical Review 117, no. 4 (2012): 1061–1091.
Lewis R. Gordon, An Introduction to Africana Philosophy.  Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Hien Thu Luong.  “Vietnamese Existential Philosophy: A Critical Appraisal.”  Temple University Dissertation,
2009. 
Lu Qi’s lectures on Yangming at École des hautes études en sciences sociales (July
2011): http://ecoumene.blogspot.com/2011/07/wang-yangmings-philosophy-and-its-fate.html
Roberto Domingo Toledo, “Existentialism and Latin America,” in Jack Reynolds, Ashley Woodward, and Felicity
Joseph (eds.), The Continuum Companion to Existentialism (London: Continuum, 2011), pp. 215–237.
 
* While Albert Camus and Jacques Derrida were born in Algeria, they are read primarily as French and more at
the mainstream of the Western academy, which is why they’re reserved for the concluding paragraph.
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** While geographically in Europe, Spain is geopolitically more part of the Global South, which is why it is
included here.
*** Although the USA is geopolitically First World, the designation and ideas of the theorists and artists listed
here are squarely located in the Global South. 
 

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