For/giving and Other Existential Challenges in Nathalie Etoke’s Melancholia Africana
by Lewis R. Gordon
The English translation of Nathalie Etoke’s Melancholia Africana comes to print this year through Rowman & Littlefield International’s Creolizing the Canon series.
To say that this...
Black Issues in Philosophy: Africana Philosophy and Depression
by Dana Francisco Miranda
The white world, the only honorable one, barred me from all participation. A man was expected to behave like a man....
Recently Published Book Spotlight: The Man-Not
Tommy J. Curry is a Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University. He is the author of The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the...
Black Issues in Philosophy: Africana Philosophy in France Today
by Norman Ajari
To think of the contemporary situation of Africana philosophy in France amounts to reflecting upon its institutional nonexistence and the historical reasons...
Black Issues in Philosophy: The Philosophical Project of Political Speech
by Derefe Kimarley Chevannes
No leader can successfully lead this race of ours without giving an interpretation of the awakened spirit of the New Negro,...
Black Issues in Philosophy: A Conversation on Sorry to Bother You
Steven Manicastri is a political theorist and labor organizer. Having recently viewed Sorry to Bother You and seeing its clear relevance to his own research...
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...
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...
Face Death: End Racism
“This stuff goes deep… But are we keeping quiet because we’re looking an enemy in the face, and it is us? We’re quiet because...
Black Issues in Philosophy: Does Race Trump Gender? Intersectionality and Charles Mills
The recent issue of Critical Philosophy of Race (Vol 5. Issue 1) features a mini symposium on the work of renowned philosopher Charles Mills...