Black Issues in Philosophy

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In Defense of the CROWN Act

Material in this article reproduces previously published research by the author. This research appears in: Amir Jaima, “In Defense of the Crown Act,” Philosophia 51,...
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Self-Invention, Worldmaking, and the Struggle for Another Revolutionary Event: A Review Essay of Jean...

In my estimation, the beauty that lies in existentialist thought manifests itself as a truthful, bare encounter with reality, and with it, an appraisal—in...
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James Africanus Beale Horton: Racism and the Fate of Naturalism in Victorian Philosophical Anthropology

There has been a recent increase in interest in the place of race in the writings of modern canonical European philosophers (e.g., in Locke,...
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Meditations on Africatown, Part 2: On Cultivating Liberatory Fields of Vision

Part one of this post can be found here. I visited the Africatown Heritage House for the first time a short while ago. The new...
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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...
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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...
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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,...