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17Race problems, unknown publics, paralysis, and faithIn Shannon Sullivan Nancy Tuana (ed.), Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance, . pp. 135--151. 2007.
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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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13Malcolm'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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13?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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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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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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4Towards a Decolonial Analytic Philosophy: Institutional Corruption and Epistemic CultureIn Sally Matthews & Pedro Tabensky (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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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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Aesthetics |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |
African/Africana Philosophy |
Philosophy of Action |