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44Context and Complaint: On Racial DisorientationGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 35 (1-2): 331-351. 2014.
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62Race, ethics, seduction, politics: On Shannon Sullivan's revealing whitenessJournal of Speculative Philosophy 21 (3). 2007.
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35Is It Sometime Yet?Contemporary Pragmatism 8 (2): 17-29. 2011.It has become fashionable to claim that Barack Obama is a philosophical pragmatist, committed to Deweyan convictions rather than to the vulgar practicalism of political expediency. This reading is meant to explain certain aspects of Mr. Obama's public life, and to demonstrate the coherence of his ethical vision. I'll suggest that the appeal of the reading has less to do with the evidence in its favor, which is equivocal at best, than with the deeper desires that it seems to satisfy
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39The Last King of Scotland or the Last N----r on Earth? The Ethics of Race on FilmContemporary Aesthetics. 2009.
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16On the Very Idea of a Philosophical Culture: Or, The American Evasion of PoliticsTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 52 (3): 366. 2016.It is an honor to comment on Carlin Romano’s fine and ambitious book. It is also something of a challenge, precisely because of Romano’s ambition. He has set himself the task of rebranding both the United States and philosophy. He has undertaken to compose and sell an image of the United States as a distinctly philosophical enterprise, and a picture of philosophy as something more democratic and diverse than the mostly white, mostly male, elite-aspirant academic discipline that most people assoc…Read more
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12Does Hip Hop Belong to Me? The Philosophy of Race and CultureIn D. Darby & T. Shelby (eds.), Hip Hop and Philosophy, Open Court. pp. 79--91. 2005.
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80What's the Use of Calling Du Bois a Pragmatist?Metaphilosophy 35 (1-2): 99-114. 2004.Was W. E. B. Du Bois a pragmatist? Does it matter? This essay argues that reading Du Bois as a pragmatist highlights aspects of his work and life that might otherwise go unnoticed, while also highlighting aspects of pragmatism that often go unappreciated. In addition, this double revelation may help restore to us some important resources for dealing with current social problems.
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