ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the case of Africana phenomenology, an emerging subfield within the larger discursive terrain of Africana philosophy. It aims to bring the field of Africana phenomenology clearly into view by outlining its contours, problems, and theorists. The problem of culture and phenomenology has in part been concealed by the ways in which reason and culture have been brought together in the identity of European phenomenology. The chapter focuses on the contributions of WEB Dubois, Frantz Fanon, and Lewis Gordon. The ethical dimensions of Fanon's phenomenology have been given their most systematic treatment by Nelson Maldonado-Torres. Gordon's ethical/practical project is one of denegrification and racial equality. The chapter explores the philosophical implications of the emergence of Africana phenomenology as a subfield of Africana philosophy. It argues point to a metaphysical distinctness that can only be adequately engaged by a more comparative approach to philosophy.
