Devonya N Havis
Biographic Data
| ID | 4324924 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Devonya N Havis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Devonya N |
| FAMILY NAME | Havis |
| SIGNATURE | HAVIS D N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Canisius College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Creating a Black Vernacular Philosophy
Creating a Black Vernacular Philosophy explores how everyday Black vernacular practices, developed to negotiate survival and joy, can be understood as philosophy in their own right. Devonya N. Havis argues that many unique cultural and intellectual practices of African diasporic communities have done the work of traditional philosophies. Focusing on creative practices that take place within Black American diasporic cultures via narratives, the bl…
Introduction to section from the 12th Annual Foucault Circle Conference
Now, How You Sound”
This paper is a tentative attempt to set out some of the basic points for articulating an alternative philosophical praxis derived from some Black women's lives and experiences. It begins with an explanation of delegitimating processes and the importance of not dividing theory from practice. The essay offers six practices that outline the unique critical attitude that constitutes philosophical practices rooted in Black women's lived experience an…
The Parrhesiastic Enterprise of Black Philosophy
Black philosophy, which includes a plethora of divergent viewpoints and competing theoretical frameworks, at its best, is a liber tory practice. In its most progressive expressions, Black philosophy is a multi-vocal tradition that seeks to undo the epistemic erasure of Black experience by creating and cultivating philosophical tools that promote social justice. In the context of this journal, The Black Scholar, these may not be read as very radic…
Blackness beyond witness
The article posits that philosophy’s visual bias has limited exploration of the ways in which sound, and the awareness of sound, offers an alternative framework for social change. It moves from sight to sound and from visual witnessing to sound-based wit(h)ness to illustrate the implications of sound as a form of political resistance. Combining insights from the work of Michel Foucault and Emmanuel Levinas with elements of the Black Vernacular tr…
Now, How You Sound”
This paper is a tentative attempt to set out some of the basic points for articulating an alternative philosophical praxis derived from some Black women's lives and experiences. It begins with an explanation of delegitimating processes and the importance of not dividing theory from practice. The essay offers six practices that outline the unique critical attitude that constitutes philosophical practices rooted in Black women's lived experience an…
Blackness beyond witness
The article posits that philosophy’s visual bias has limited exploration of the ways in which sound, and the awareness of sound, offers an alternative framework for social change. It moves from sight to sound and from visual witnessing to sound-based wit(h)ness to illustrate the implications of sound as a form of political resistance. Combining insights from the work of Michel Foucault and Emmanuel Levinas with elements of the Black Vernacular tr…
Now, How You Sound”
This paper is a tentative attempt to set out some of the basic points for articulating an alternative philosophical praxis derived from some Black women's lives and experiences. It begins with an explanation of delegitimating processes and the importance of not dividing theory from practice. The essay offers six practices that outline the unique critical attitude that constitutes philosophical practices rooted in Black women's lived experience an…
The Parrhesiastic Enterprise of Black Philosophy
Black philosophy, which includes a plethora of divergent viewpoints and competing theoretical frameworks, at its best, is a liber tory practice. In its most progressive expressions, Black philosophy is a multi-vocal tradition that seeks to undo the epistemic erasure of Black experience by creating and cultivating philosophical tools that promote social justice. In the context of this journal, The Black Scholar, these may not be read as very radic…
Introduction to section from the 12th Annual Foucault Circle Conference
Creating a Black Vernacular Philosophy
Creating a Black Vernacular Philosophy explores how everyday Black vernacular practices, developed to negotiate survival and joy, can be understood as philosophy in their own right. Devonya N. Havis argues that many unique cultural and intellectual practices of African diasporic communities have done the work of traditional philosophies. Focusing on creative practices that take place within Black American diasporic cultures via narratives, the bl…
Sociology (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Foucault, Power, and Ethics (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works)