Black Issues in Philosophy

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...

At the Intersection of Philosophy and International Relations, Souffrant’s Global Development Ethics

Eddy Souffrant, Professor of Philosophy and Chair of Africana Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, stands among the leading professional philosophers...

Abolitionist Pedagogy in Introductory Philosophy Courses

To continue the ongoing struggle of transforming higher education beyond merely reproducing the world as it stands, I here outline my rationale and process...
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Why Black Women’s Affect?

For the proposal of my final paper for one of my classes, I decided I wanted to write about Black women’s affect, embodiment, and...
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Leading the Newest Wave of Feminism: An Interview with Author and Activist Cinzia Arruzza

With abortion rights under attack in the United States, activists all around the world are concerned about women’s bodily autonomy and social progress. The...
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Black Existence in “Torto Arado” em Dez Dobras

The collection of critical essays "Torto Arado” em Dez Dobras will be released in 2023 in Brazil by Mercado de Letras. The anthology,...
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The Reality of Carceral America: A Conversation with Activist Barbara Fair

Barbara Fair is a social justice activist and founding member of Stop Solitary Connecticut. The Stop Solitary CT campaign is aiming to eliminate the utilization...
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Mabogo More’s Sartre on Contingency

For anyone who struggles while reading Jean-Paul Sartre (including this reviewer), South African philosopher Mabogo Percy More’s recent book, Sartre On Contingency: Antiblack Racism...

Coffee and Communism

Marxism and communism are often seen in many countries as malevolent boogeymen that cast a shadow throughout the Euromodern world, topics we shouldn’t discuss....
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The Blacker the Madness: The Balmy Methodologies of La Marr Jurelle Bruce

“I shall be derelict. I leave methods to the botanists and the mathematicians. There is a point at which methods devour themselves.” Frantz Fanon, Black...