The Lives that Matter in the Prevailing Social Order
George Floyd’s murder at the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department has ignited nationwide protests against police violence. Within these protests, the movement for...
#AgainstPoliceViolence
Editor's note: This special edition of Black Issues in Philosophy is being run to provide insight into the recent killing of George Floyd by...
What It’s Like to be an HBCU Faculty Member: Anika Simpson
The purpose of this APA Blog series, What It’s Like to be an HBCU Faculty Member, is to spotlight faculty members in our profession...
Dawn of Darkness
(Composed on 24 March 2020)
I know, I know,
It threatens the common gestures of human bonding
The handshake,
The hug
The shoulders we give each other to cry...
Frederick Douglass and the Transformational Power of Courage in a Fearsome World
In organizing and
movement-building circles, we often talk honorifically about our “fearless”
leaders: people who are unflinching, who are not afraid of any fight and who
never...
What It’s Like to be an HBCU Faculty Member: Brandon Hogan
The purpose of this APA Blog series, What It's Like to be an HBCU Faculty Member, is to spotlight faculty members in our profession...
Racism’s Guts? The Physiology of Oppression
by Shannon Sullivan
Can a person’s belief in racial hierarchy—for example, that white people are superior to Black people—be embodied in their gut? I wondered...
Racism As Self-Love
In his Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, Jean-Jacques Rousseau posits an important distinction between self-preservation (amour de soi) and self-love (amour-propre). As he...
Philosophical Methodologies of Critical Race Theory
by Richard A. Jones
Critical Race Theory (CRT), in its most influential form, was initiated at Harvard Law School by Derrick Bell’s early critique of...
Working Intersectionally to Abolish White Supremacy: An Interview with Alyosha Goldstein
by Luis J. Beltrán-Álvarez
Dr. Alyosha Goldstein is Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico. Goldstein dedicates his research to the study...