On Revolutionary History and the Freedom Project: A Review Essay of Julius Scott’s The...
Julius S. Scott’s The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution was rightly bestowed with the Frantz Fanon Outstanding Book...
A Reply to Paget Henry’s “Self, Language and Metaphysics: A Review of Teodros Kiros’s...
Paget Henry wrote a review of my book Self-Definition: A Philosophical Inquiry from the Global South and the Global North. I offer here some...
Ethics of Freedom, Politics for Decolonization: Thoughts on Devin Shaw’s Philosophy of Antifascism
Devin Zane Shaw’s Philosophy of Antifascism offers an account of the normative basis for militant or insurrectionary antifascist praxis, concluding with a reflection on...
On Antique Spoons: Chapters on Love, Loss and the Politics of Memory
At the release of the Vuma Levin Quintet’s acclaimed CD The Spectacle of An-Other in 2015, Sihle Mthembu had this to say in The...
Jean-Paul Sartre: Exalting Black Thought and Living Existentialism
For progressive readers, existential philosophy reaches its apogee when it serves as the theoretical foundation for progressive political commitments and engaged activism. Existential thought...
Changing Identities: Are Race and Gender Analogous?
Analogies don’t compare two identical things—if they did, they wouldn’t be analogies. Analogies compare things similar in certain important respects. Analogies can illuminate latent...
A Reflection on Juneteenth 2021
Juneteenth (also known as Emancipation Day)—the celebration of June 19, 1865, the day in which Texas complied with the Emancipation Proclamation—is now a national...
Uncertainty Can Be A Luxury: A Response to a Recent Issue of Race and...
Racism forces us to confront the limits of what we know about ourselves and others. The pockets of uncertainty into which it leads can...
Antiblackness and Philosophical Duplicity
The black woman philosopher Adrian Piper had an unfortunate run-in with Wilfred Van Orman Quine on her first day as a Harvard graduate student....
Reflections on the Erasure of Violence Against Sex Workers Pre- and Post-Atlanta
By Erica MacDonald
In the hours following the horrific murders at three Atlanta-area massage parlors on March 16, 2021, journalists and other commentators attempted to...