Review of Nathalie Etoke’s Melancholia Africana
Melancholia Africana: The Indispensable Overcoming of the Black Condition is a book about possibility. It is about reciprocity—about becoming. But it is also about...
Malcolm X Was More Interesting Than “Who Killed Malcolm X?”
Who
killed President John F. Kennedy? Who killed civil rights icon Martin Luther
King, Jr.? These questions have inspired some profoundly captivating
conspiracies.
However,
Who Killed Malcolm X?—an...
Frederick Douglass and the Transformational Power of Courage in a Fearsome World
In organizing and
movement-building circles, we often talk honorifically about our “fearless”
leaders: people who are unflinching, who are not afraid of any fight and who
never...
Caribbean Philosophical Association’s 2020 Award Winners
The Caribbean Philosophical Association is pleased to announce the 2020 recipients of the association’s awards for contributions to philosophical thought, literature, and mentorship:
Nicolás Cristóbal...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...