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16?Tienes Culo? How to Look at Vida GuerraIn Peg Brand Weiser (ed.), Beauty Unlimited, Indiana University Press. pp. 218-242. 2013.Vida Guerra is a Cuban model from northern New Jersey. She made her name in hiphop videos and in "gentlemen's magazines" but quickly became in intermediate supermodel, with her own calendars, making-of-the-calendar DVDs, official website, fan websites, television show, and controversy over a "leaked" nude photo. . . . Vida's popularity has caused one writer to suggest "You may now move over J-Lo, and make way for Vida;" in short, tiene culo, to borrow the Spanish slang that adorns one of her vir…Read more
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18Malcolm's Conk and Danto's Colors; or, Four Logical Petitions Concerning race, Beauty, and AestheticsIn Peg Zeglin Brand (ed.), Beauty Matters, Indiana University Press. pp. 57-64. 2000.In this essay I want to consider how Penola's (character in Toni Morrison's novel, The Bluest Eye) circumstance es motivate her petition--"asking for beauty"--and two others, after which I will offer my own petition concerning the practice of aesthetics.
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303Black Reconstruction in AestheticsDebates in Aesthetics 15 (2): 9-47. 2020.This essay uses the concept of reconstruction to make an argument and an intervention in relation to the practice and study of black aesthetics. The argument will have to do with the parochialism of John Dewey, the institutional inertia of professional philosophy, the aesthetic dimensions of the US politics of reconstruction, the centrality of reconstructionist politics to the black aesthetic tradition, and the staging of a reconstructionist argument in the film, Black Panther (Coogler 2018). Th…Read more
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4Towards a Decolonial Analytic Philosophy: Institutional Corruption and Epistemic CultureIn Pedro Tabensky & Sally Matthews (eds.), Being at Home: Race, Institutional Culture and Transformation at South African Higher Education Institutions, University of Kwazulu-natal Press. pp. 203-220. 2015.
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412. Moral PerfectionismIn Brandon M. Terry & Tommie Shelby (eds.), To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr, Harvard University Press. pp. 35-57. 2018.
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204Black aestheticsPhilosophy Compass 5 (1): 1-15. 2010.This article introduces the preoccupations and themes that define the study and practice of black aesthetics. It presents a provisional sketch of a field that has long been recognized in other humanities disciplines, but that is only now gaining wide notice in academic philosophy. This sketch emphasizes the aspects of the field that invite specifically philosophic scrutiny, while touching lightly on specific artworks, critical literatures and historical developments. Among the topics that receiv…Read more
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45Black is Beautiful: A Philosophy of Black AestheticsWiley-Blackwell. 2015.Those who know anything about black history and culture probably know that aesthetics has long been a central concern for black thinkers and activists. The Harlem Renaissance, the Negritude movement, the Black Arts Movement, and the discipline of Black British cultural studies all attest to the intimate connection between black politics and questions of style, beauty, expression, and art. And the participants in these and other movements have made art and offered analyses that wrestle with clear…Read more
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30The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Race (edited book)Routledge. 2017.For many decades, race and racism have been common areas of study in departments of sociology, history, political science, English, and anthropology. Much more recently, as the historical concept of race and racial categories have faced significant scientific and political challenges, philosophers have become more interested in these areas. This changing understanding of the ontology of race has invited inquiry from researchers in moral philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of scienc…Read more
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31The Philosophy of Race: Critical Concepts in Philosophy (edited book)Routledge. 2011.v. 1. Philosophy and the history of race, race in the history of philosophy -- v.2. Racial being and knowing -- v. 3. Race-ing beauty, goodness, and right -- v. 4. Intersections and positions.
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126Race: A Philosophical IntroductionPolity. 2003.Paul C. Taylor provides an accessible guide to a well-travelled but still-mysterious area of the contemporary social landscape. The result is the first philosophical introduction to the field of race theory and to a non-biological and situational notion of race. Provides the first philosophical introduction to the field of race theory. Outlines the main features and implications of race-thinking; asks questions such as: What is race-thinking? Don’t we know better than to talk about race now? Are…Read more
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113W.E.B. Du BoisPhilosophy Compass 5 (11): 904-915. 2010.This article introduces some of the key philosophical contributions of W. E. B. Du Bois. Du Bois studied with Santayana and William James (among others), but chose social science, social theory, journalism, and activism over academic philosophy. Despite this detour, the philosophic depth of his work has won the attention of scholars in fields such as history, English, post‐colonial theory, African‐American Studies, American philosophy, and Africana philosophy, and it has belatedly begun to attra…Read more
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287... So Black and Blue: Response to RudinowJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 53 (3): 313-316. 1995.
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10On ObamaRoutledge. 2014.On Obama examines some of the key philosophical questions that accompany the historic emergence of the 44th US president. The purpose of the book is to take seriously the once-common thought that Mr. Obama had ushered in a post-historical age. Three questions organize the argument of the book. Has the US become post-racial? Does Obama’s pragmatism show the way to a post-partisan approach to politics? And does the reining in of US power and ambitions signal the emergence of a post-imperial moment…Read more
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45Context and Complaint: On Racial DisorientationGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 35 (1-2): 331-351. 2014.
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63Race, ethics, seduction, politics: On Shannon Sullivan's revealing whitenessJournal of Speculative Philosophy 21 (3). 2007.
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37Is 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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17On 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: Rhyme 2 Reason, Open Court. pp. 79--91. 2005.
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84What'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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18Race problems, unknown publics, paralysis, and faithIn Shannon Sullivan & Nancy Tuana (eds.), Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance, State Univ of New York Pr. pp. 135--151. 2007.
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