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Interview with Mabogo P. More

Editor’s note:  Professor More uses “black” and “Black” in this interview.  He uses the former when he is speaking specifically to the racial term as ordinarily...
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Hanétha Vété-Congolo, President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association

by Lewis Gordon Dr. Hanétha Vété-Congolo, Professor of Romance Languages and an affiliate in the Latin American Studies Program and the Gender, Women and Sexuality...
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Rob Redding’s “Why Black Lives Matter: Borigination explains how to get police and whites...

by Lewis Gordon What can one do when it is illegal for one to appear? Such a neurotic situation emerges, Robert Redding contends, from a society...
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On The October Awakening(s) and the Condor: Notes from Ecuador and the Region

by Catherine Walsh These notes began as a need—my need—to reflect on the two-week peoples´ rebellion and protest in Ecuador, a rebellion-protest that I lived and that...
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Revisiting the Brown Babe’s Burden

by Tracy Llanera The job season is here again. If you’re on the market as an ABD or an early career researcher and you have a non-mainstream...

Ecuador: From the Middle of the World to the End of the World

 by Boaventura de Sousa Santos  As its very name suggests, Ecuador is geographically located in the middle of the world. And now, from all appearances, neoliberalism has...
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“Useful on the Ground”: An Interview with Elizabeth Hoover

by Kitty O’Riordan Editor Note: This interview originally had Dr. Hoover identitied as "(Mohawk/Mi’kmaq descendant)." We have deleted that because of Dr. Hoover's "Letter of Apology...
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Black Issues in Philosophy: Jane Anna Gordon on Creolizing Power, Theory, and Education

by Rosemere Ferreira Da Silva In November 2018, Professor Jane Anna Gordon presented a public lecture and seminar at the State University of Bahia (UNEB)...
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Black Issues in Philosophy: The Day Botswana Stopped Being an African Country

by Olúfẹmi Táíwò On June 11, this year, the Lobatse High Court in Gaborone, Botswana’s capital, returned a verdict in an appeal case that reverberated...
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Black Issues in Philosophy: Kamau Brathwaite

Kamau Brathwaite—the famed Caribbean poet, historian and philosopher—is one of this year’s recipients of the Caribbean Philosophical Association’s Nicolás Guillén Lifetime Achievement Award.  Unable...