Black Issues in Philosophy: On Teaching Anna Julia Cooper’s “What Are We Worth” in...
By Thomas Meagher
Anna Julia Cooper begins her essay, “What Are We Worth?”—a chapter from her classic book A Voice from the South (1892), considered...
Women in Philosophy: The Work of the APA Graduate Student Council
By Zoë Johnson King
Graduate school in Philosophy can be hard, in many ways, for everyone. But some of the ways in which graduate school...
The Ugly Truth of Being a Black Professor in America
Editor’s Note: Some of the language used in this article is racially sensitive. The Blog of the APA is publishing it because we believe...
Women in Philosophy: Publishing Ethics in Philosophy
By Kris Sealey
I’m the lead PI on a Mellon grant to develop a code of ethics for publishing in philosophy. Our team came to...
Philosophy in the Contemporary World: The Double Consciousness of a Black Muslim American
I shudder to think what the backlash against the Muslim community would have been if Mark Anthony Conduitt, the Austin bomber and the domestic...
Black Issues in Philosophy: Interview of Alan Pelaez Lopez
By Brooks Kirchgassner
Alan Pelaez Lopez is a PhD student in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California Berkeley. Lopez’s preferred third-person...
Women in Philosophy: Southern Black Feminism in Philosophy
By Lindsey Stewart
When I mention to fellow conference participants in various philosophy circles that I work on Zora Neale Hurston, I often get a...
Black Issues in Philosophy: A Citadel of the Ideal
By Anthony Sean Neal
Faculties at Black colleges and universities or HBCU’s often used philosophical thought to respond to the problem(s) they found to...
Women in Philosophy: Notes from philoSOPHIA Conference 2018
By Jennifer Scuro
The academy is risk-averse.
Joy James, philoSOPHIA 2018 keynote speaker
It might be too ambitious of me to imagine that, for those of us who...
Questioning the Language of Service
During my tenure at St. Olaf and other colleges, there has always been a lot of earnest talk about “giving back,” “serving others,” “working...