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Self-Invention, Worldmaking, and the Struggle for Another Revolutionary Event: A Review Essay of Jean Casimir’s The Haitians: A Decolonial History

In my estimation, the beauty that lies in existentialist thought manifests itself as a truthful, bare encounter with reality, and with it, an appraisal—in whatever form it comes—of the condition...

Derefe Kimarley Chevannes

Derefe Kimarley Chevannes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Memphis, who specializes in Africana Political Theory. Chevannes’ research interests center on issues...

Globalizing Political Theory and the Challenges of Making it Happen

...requires independence not just from global capitalism, but also from the theoretical assumptions these forces produced.” Similarly, Derefe Kimarley Chevannes’s chapter brings together Fanon and Claudia Jones, who were not...

On Revolutionary History and the Freedom Project: A Review Essay of Julius Scott’s The Common Wind

Julius S. Scott’s The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution was rightly bestowed with the Frantz Fanon Outstanding Book award in 2020. In my view,...

Derefe Kimarley Chevannes

Derefe Kimarley Chevannes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Memphis. He is a political theorist who writes at the intersection of Africana...

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Black Issues in Philosophy: The Philosophical Project of Political Speech

by Derefe Kimarley Chevannes Source: U.S. Air Force Photo Illustration/Airman 1st Class Kyle Johnson No leader can successfully lead this race of ours without giving an interpretation of the awakened...

Black Issues in Philosophy: A Conversation on Get Out

Having recently viewed Jordan Peele’s award-winning Get Out (2017), political theorist Derefe Kimarley Chevannes was prompted to discuss the film with philosopher Lewis Gordon, whose writings include discussions of race...