Below is the audio recording of Tommie Shelby’s presidential address, “Afro-Analytical Marxism and the Problem of Race,” given at the 2021 Eastern Division Meeting (held virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic). The full text is available on the APA website (member sign-in is required) as well as on JSTOR.
The audio of the lecture is available here:
“Afro-Analytical Marxism and the Problem of Race” by Tommie Shelby
Tommie Shelby is Lee Simpkins Family Professor of Arts and Sciences and Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy at Harvard University where he has taught since 2000. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests include social and political philosophy, history of black political thought, philosophy of race, and social theory. He is the author of several books including The Idea of Prison Abolition (Princeton University Press, 2022), Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform (Harvard University Press, 2016), and We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity (Harvard University Press, 2005). He served as president of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in 2020–2021.
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