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...
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....
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...
For Modernity: A Review of Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò’s Against Decolonisation
Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò’s Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously delivers a clearly-articulated and well-supported defense of its eponymous thesis. It should come as no surprise...
“Swing on, Swing On”: Blue Note Hope and JID’s Forever Story
Black American music has a long tradition of keeping hope alive. W.E.B. Du Bois highlighted the importance of the “sorrow song”—the “rhythmic cry of...
Dis-alienating Theory: On François Tosquelles, Frantz Fanon, and Political Theory by way of Camille...
Camille Robcis's Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France is a lively and timely intervention into a variety of fields. The book...
Meditations on Africatown, Part 1: Sensing Reality
Editor’s Note: What follows is the first in an intended series of reflections by the author on experiences in the undertaking of a research...
Loving Commitment to Another: A Reflection by way of Howard Thurman
Do we, as human beings, need love? In The Creative Encounter, Howard Thurman affirms that we do.
Thurman articulates this universal human need for love...
The Caribbean Philosophical Association’s 2023 Award Winners
The Caribbean Philosophical Association is pleased to announce the 2023 recipients of the association’s awards for contributions to philosophical thought, literature, mentorship, and best...