APA Newsletters Volume 02, Number 1 Fall 2002 NEWSLETTER ON PHILOSOPHY AND THE BLACK EXPERIENCE LETTER FROM THE NEW EDITORS, JOHN MCCLENDON & GEORGE YANCY ARTICLES JOHN H. MCCLENDON III “Black and White contra Left and Right? The Dialectics of Ideological Critique in African American Studies” GEORGE YANCY “Black Women’s Experiences, Philosophy of Religion and Womanist Theology: An Introduction through Jacquelyn Grant’s Hermaneutics of Location” BOOK REVIEWS Mark David Wood: Cornel West and the Politics of Prophetic Pragmatism REVIEWED BY JOHN H. MCCLENDON III George Yancy, Ed.: Cornel West: A Critical Reader REVIEWED BY ARNOLD L. FARR © 2002 by The American Philosophical Association ISSN: 1067-9464 APA NEWSLETTER ON Philosophy and the Black Experience John McClendon & George Yancy, Co-Editors Fall 2002 Volume 02, Number 1 George Yancy’s recent groundbreaking work, Cornel West: A ETTER ROM THE EW DITORS Critical Reader. Farr particularly highlights the revolutionary L F N E historical importance of Yancy’s book. For submissions to the APA newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience, book reviews should be sent to George We would like to say that it is an honor to assume, as new Yancy at Duquesne University Philosophy Department, 600 editors, the helm of the APA Newsletter on Philosophy and the Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15282; and he can be e-mailed Black Experience. Editors Leonard Harris and Jesse Taylor have at
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