Pub: Gordon, Anna, and Neil Roberts, eds. CREOLIZING ROUSSEAU. C. L. R. JAMES JOURNAL 15.1 (2009).

Contents: EDITORS’ NOTE

• "Introduction: the Project of Creolizing Rousseau" by Jane Anna Gordon and Neil Roberts

DEBATING CREOLIZATION: AN INTRODUCTION

• "Of Legitimation and the General Will: Creolizing Rousseau through Frantz Fanon" by Jane Anna Gordon
• "From Mestiçagem to Cosmopolitanism" by Alexis Nouss
• "Beyond Négritude and Créolité: the Ongoing Creolization of Identities" by Mickaella Perina

CREOLIZING ROUSSEAU

• "Rousseau, the Master’s Tools, and Anti-Contractarian Contractarianism" by Charles W. Mills
• "Rousseau and Fanon on Inequality and the Human Sciences" by Nelson Maldonado-Torres
• "From Rousseau’s Theory of Natural Equality to Firmin's Resistance to the Historical Inequality of Races" by Tommy J. Curry
• "Rousseau and the Problem of Democratic Transition in Postcolonial Africa" by George Carew
• "C. L. R. James and the Creolizing of Rousseau and Marx" by Paget Henry
• "Virtuous Bacchanalia: Creolizing Rousseau’s Festival" by Chiji Akọma and Sally Scholz

REVIEW ESSAYS

• "Rousseau, Social Alienation, and the Possibility of Generative Critique: a Review Essay" by Emily C. Nacol
• "On Pateman and Mills’s Contract and Domination" by Lewis R. Gordon
• "Space, Power, Consciousness and Women's Resistance: a Review Essay" by Gertrude Gonzáles de Allen

ACCEPTANCE LETTER OF THE FIRST RECIPIENT OF THE CPA NICOLÁS GUILLÉN PRIZE FOR PHILOSOPHICAL LITERATURE

• Wilson Harris

BOOK DISCUSSION

• "Sylvia Marcos’s Taken from the Lips as a Post-secular Transmodern, and Decolonial Methodology" by Nelson Maldonado-Torres
• "On Sylvia Marcos’s Taken from the Lips" by Karen Torjesen
• "On Sylvia Marcos’s Journey along the Spiral of Nahuatl Gender and Eros" by Madina Tlostanova
• "Cosmology and Gender in Sylvia Marcos’s Taken From the Lips: Gender and Eros in Mesoamerican Religions" by María Lugones
• "Unapologetically to Introduce New Goals and Methods: a Reply" by Sylvia Marcos

The table of contents can also be read online at: http://www.temple.edu/isrst/Publications/CLRv15n1.asp. If you wish to obtain a copy of the issue, please direct your requests to Paget Henry (Paget_Henry@brown.edu), Executive Editor of the C. L. R. James Journal. In addition, the complete introduction that articulates the project of creolizing Rousseau and summarizes the essay of each author can be found at: http://www.williams.edu/africana-studies/NeilRoberts/CreolizingRousseauIntroduction/EditorsNotes.htm JANE ANNA GORDON (jgordon1@temple.edu) teaches in the Department of Political Science at Temple University. She is the author of Why They Couldn’t Wait: A Critique of the Black-Jewish Conflict Over Community Control in Ocean-Hill Brownsville, 1967–1971 (Routledge, 2001), which was listed by The Gotham Gazette as one of the four best books recently published on civil rights, and co-editor of A Companion to African-American Studies (Blackwell’s, 2006) and Not Only the Master’s Tools (Paradigm Publishers, 2006). She is also coauthor of the forthcoming Of Divine Warning: Reading Disaster in the Modern Age (Paradigm Publishers, 2009) and is completing her next book, Creolizing Political Theory: Reading Rousseau through Fanon (Fordham University Press, forthcoming). NEIL ROBERTS (Neil.Roberts@williams.edu) is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Faculty Affiliate in Political Science at Williams College. Roberts’s work has appeared in Caribbean Studies, New Political Science, Philosophia Africana, Political Theory, Sartre Studies International, Shibboleths, and Souls. He is currently working on two book projects. The first is entitled Freedom as Marronage: The Dialectic of Slavery and Freedom in Arendt, Pettit, Rousseau, Douglass, and the Haitian Revolution, and the second is a comparative study of the Rastafari and Carl Schmitt.