...example. She argues that when philosopher Lewis Gordon argues that the title ought to be translated as “The Damned of the Earth” he “makes a critical contribution” to our understanding...
I recently had the good fortune of a live-streamed New York Public Library conversation with philosopher and journalist Barrett Holmes Pitner. The focus of our discussion was his book, The...
...response to his interlocutors, which included such philosophical thinkers as Hilary W. Putnam, James H. Cone, Iris Marion Young, Charles Mills, Lewis R. Gordon, Clevis Headley, Eduardo Mendieta, Nada Elia,...
...of Reason (2007) and Haiti and the Americas (2013). In addition to being an active member of many philosophical organizations, Dr. Headley was the cofounder (with Lewis Gordon and Paget...
...Social phenomena cannot be isolated to a single disciplinary apparatus (see Lewis Gordon’s robust discussion of disciplinary decadence). There is no denying that Scott is a historian, a very skilled...
...analysis calls to mind Lewis Gordon’s analysis of left-right dynamics wherein the left’s commitment to liberalism entails a fight for its opposition’s right to oppose it, but the right’s overarching...
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 Mail & Guardian: “Vuma Levin is...
...chattel slavery’s physical and legislative constraints and continued historical failures to address those wrongs. Contemporary Africana existential liberationist work in this tradition includes Lewis Gordon’s Existentia Africana, A. Shahid Stover’s...
...identification as both transgender and transracial. Although the shape transracial identity takes today may be different, contrary to popular opinion, transracialism is also not entirely novel. As scholars like Lewis...
Painting by Sula Gordon, with permission of the artist Juneteenth (also known as Emancipation Day)—the celebration of June 19, 1865, the day in which Texas complied with the Emancipation Proclamation—is...
