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Some Thoughts on the Indian Freedom Struggle in Light of Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched...

Kama Maclean and Benjamin Zachariah write that the humiliation of colonial rule necessitates violence, citing Fanon’s assertion that violence “frees the native from his...
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The Poetic Way of Resistance to Western Hegemony: Where Fanon’s Anti-Imperialism and İsmet Özel’s...

Frantz Fanon offers in-depth studies of the emancipation processes of postcolonial societies and emphasized that these processes are not limited to physical independence but...
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Decolonizing Faith: Frantz Fanon, Liberation Theology, and the Struggle for Dignity

Introduction Frantz Fanon (1925–1961) and Gustavo Gutiérrez (1928–2024), both thinkers from the Global South, emerged from distinct geopolitical margins and intellectual traditions shaped by the...
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Struggles for Liberation in Abya Yala: A Review

How do our struggles to produce more rigorous ideas about liberation and decolonization relate to a variety of struggles across Abya Yala to produce...
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The Aesthetics of Black Madness

July 20, 2025, marks the centennial of Frantz Fanon’s birth. In honoring his valuable contributions to liberatory struggles, I am drawn to his pursuits...
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Critical Phenomenology’s “Critique” in a Time of Polycrisis

Can critiques of lived experience transform the world? In recent years, proponents of “critical phenomenology” (e.g., Salamon 2018, Weiss et al. 2020) have articulated...
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Considering Black Intelligibility and Generosity Through Mills and Wilderson

In his 2017 conversations with Tiffany Lethabo King, published in the collection Otherwise Worlds as “Staying Ready for Black Study,” Frank Wilderson sets a...
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How the Militarization of Police Sows Community Distrust and Political Unrest: A Case Study...

State-sanctioned violence has been a prominent subject of critical discussion in the writings of many, if not the majority, of Black philosophers. Likewise, for...
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Richard T. Greener and the Abolitionist Moment in American Philosophy

On the first anniversary of the hanging of John Brown, December 3, 1860, abolitionists from Boston and around the country assembled in Tremont Temple...
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The Caribbean Philosophical Association’s 2025 Award Winners

The Caribbean Philosophical Association is pleased to announce the recipients of the Frantz Fanon, Nicolas Guillén, Stuart Hall, Claudia Jones, and Anna Julia Cooper...