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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...
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Black Issues in Philosophy: Black Women Philosophers Conference at the CUNY-Graduate Center

by Heather Muraviov and Taylor Tate The Black Women Philosophers Conference took place last month on March 15th and 16th, 2019 and was hosted by...
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Black Issues in Philosophy: Media Representations of Immigrants from African Countries in Italy

There is a nationwide fear of the amount of people that have been coming from African countries into Italy. This fear is caused by...
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Black Issues in Philosophy: An Interview with Native American Activist Jordan Marie Daniel

by Andrew Cain Jordan Marie Daniel is a Native-American activist intellectual and program and community specialist whose academic focus is Tribal Law and Policy. She...
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Black Issues in Philosophy: The Present Absence of Africana Thought in Juliet Hooker’s Theorizing...

by LaRose Parris Juliet Hooker’s Theorizing Race in the Americas presents an inventive hemispheric analysis of late-nineteenth- and early twentieth-century African American and Latin American...
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Black Issues in Philosophy: Stain Removal’s Metaethical and Metaphilosophical Implications

Reid Miller’s Stain Removal: Ethics and Race is a philosophical examination guided by the task of troubling ethics through an examination of its relation...
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Black Issues in Philosophy: The 2019 Caribbean Philosophical Awards Winners

The Caribbean Philosophical Association is pleased to announce the 2019 recipients of the association’s awards for contributions to philosophical thought, literature, and mentorship: The Frantz...