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Forgiveness, Obligation, and Cultures of Domination: A Review of Myisha Cherry’s Failures of Forgiveness

Myisha Cherry has entitled her recent book Failures of Forgiveness: What We Get Wrong and How to Do Better. The occasion for forgiveness is some form of wrongdoing, whether grand...

Deloria’s God is Red and Liberationist Philosophies of Black Religion

2023 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Vine Deloria Jr.’s God is Red: A Native View of Religion, which has recently been published in a fiftieth-anniversary edition. In honor of that...

Charles Johnson’s All Your Racial Problems Will Soon End

Charles Johnson is likely most well-known as a novelist, having won the National Book Award for The Middle Passage (1990) and later earning a MacArthur fellowship. To many in Philosophy,...

For Modernity: A Review of Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò’s Against Decolonisation

Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò’s Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously delivers a clearly-articulated and well-supported defense of its eponymous thesis. It should come as no surprise to longtime readers of Táíwò that...

Sylvia Wynter and the Concept of the Homocene

What—or who—is responsible for the state of the planet? The “or who” suggests a distinction between two types of responsibility. One we may term “causal responsibility”: when X causes Y,...

Strong Black Nihilism and Existential Maturity: On Devon Johnson

Some books are so rich that it is difficult to articulate an entry point for discussion; any choice of a starting point seems to slight the other aspects of the...

Ethics of Freedom, Politics for Decolonization: Thoughts on Devin Shaw’s Philosophy of Antifascism

Devin Zane Shaw’s Philosophy of Antifascism offers an account of the normative basis for militant or insurrectionary antifascist praxis, concluding with a reflection on the necessity of antifascism turning toward...

Thomas Meagher

Thomas Meagher is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Sam Houston State University. He specializes in Africana philosophy, philosophy of race, phenomenology, political theory, existentialism, and philosophy of science. Meagher earned...

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