I Am Because We Are: Readings in Africana PhilosophyFirst published in 1995, I Am Because We Are has been recognized as a major, canon defining anthology and adopted as a text in a wide variety of college and university courses. Bringing together writings by prominent black thinkers from Africa, the Caribbean, and North America, Fred Lee Hord and Jonathan Scott Lee made the case for a tradition of "relational humanism" distinct from the philosophical preoccupations of the West. Over the past twenty