Drucilla Cornell, in Memoriam
The following is a revised reflection of a post on Drucilla Cornell for the Frantz Fanon Foundation. It is posted here because of the...
Constituting Belonging: On Kris Sealey’s Creolizing the Nation
Kris Sealey opens Creolizing the Nation, recent winner of the Caribbean Philosophical Association’s Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista Outstanding Book Award, by relating the circumstances...
Globalizing Political Theory and the Challenges of Making it Happen
The call to globalize and decolonize academia and to decenter European and North American political thought and philosophy within these fields is by now...
Phenomenological Communicologist Jacqueline Martinez, Vice President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association
Jacqueline M. Martinez was recently elected to be the Vice-President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association. This means, as of 2024, she will be the...
Sylvia Wynter and the Concept of the Homocene
What—or who—is responsible for the state of the planet? The “or who” suggests a distinction between two types of responsibility. One we may term...
Metabolic & Modal in White Reconstruction
By definition, security means the freedom from danger, fear, and anxiety.
—Safiya Bukhari, The War Before
Stephen closed his eyes to hear...
Revealing Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners
Margaret A. Burnham’s poignant, innovative, and meticulously researched book, By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners, brings to the fore an open American...
A Simple Argument for Why Science Should Be for the Oppressed
Co-Editor’s Note: I composed the following short essay for an asynchronous online summer course in Philosophy of Science. The course is centered around presenting...
Strong Black Nihilism and Existential Maturity: On Devon Johnson
Some books are so rich that it is difficult to articulate an entry point for discussion; any choice of a starting point seems to...
Navigating the Apocalypse
A variety of ancient religious and cultural texts warn us about an apocalypse whereby the world ends following some sort of disastrous event(s) incurred...