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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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180Malcolm's conk and Danto's colors; or, four logical petitions concerning race, beauty, and aestheticsJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 57 (1): 16-20. 1999.
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33The Philosophy of Race. by Albert Atkin. Acumen, 2012, pp. 200, £15.99. ISBN-10: 1844655156 (review)Philosophy 89 (1): 166-171. 2014.
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Reconstructing Aesthetics: John Dewey, Expression Theory, and Cultural CriticismDissertation, Rutgers the State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick. 1997.Contemporary analytic aestheticians have little interest in the old paradigm of expression theory. They observe that expression theorists tend to locate the essence of art in the externalization of emotion, and they argue persuasively that this tendency is unfortunate. Then they consign expression theorists like Dewey; Collingwood, and Croce to the dustbin of history. This dismissive posture has become standard in aesthetics, for some good reasons. But at least in the case of Dewey, the reasons …Read more
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32Evading evasion, recovering recoveryJournal of Speculative Philosophy 25 (2): 174-183. 2011.In his contribution to Cheryl Misak's New Pragmatists volume, David Bakhurst considers the "prospect of a fruitful alliance between [ethical] particularism and pragmatism." 1 In an attempt to show that members of the two camps can "profit from critical engagement with each other's works" (124), he considers how pragmatists might help resolve three outstanding problems for ethical particularists. Unfortunately, his generosity outpaces his imagination, and he does not really find a great deal that…Read more
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Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |
African/Africana Philosophy |
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