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23Winner of the 2020 Josiah Royce Prize in American Idealist Thought presented by the Josiah Royce Society Another white Man’s Burden performs a case study of Josiah Royce’s philosophy of racial difference. In an effort to lay bare the ethnological racial heritage of American philosophy, Tommy J. Curry challenges the common notion that the cultural racism of the twentieth century was more progressive and less racist than the biological determinism of the 1800s. Like many white thinkers of his tim…Read more
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22I’m Too Real For YahRadical Philosophy Review 12 (1-2): 61-77. 2009.I am interested in looking at Krumpin’ through what I am calling the “politics of submergence.” If my world is chaotic, if my Blackness is my murderer, can I be expected to create beauty? Can my art be transformative? My paper argues that Krumpin’ is in fact transformative, not to the extent that it perpetuates hope, but maintains its social pessimism. In accepting both the conditions that have sustained the racial marginalization of African descended people, and the impotence of this marginaliz…Read more
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22Will the Real CRT Please Stand Up? The Dangers of Philosophical Contributions to CRTCrit: A Critical Legal Studies Journal 1-47. 2009.The recent pop culture iconography of the Critical Race Theory (CRT) label has attracted more devoted (white) fans than a 90s boy band. In philosophy, this trend is evidenced by the growing number of white feminists who extend their work in gender analogically to questions of race and identity. The trend is further evidenced by the unchecked use of the CRT label to describe (1) any work dealing with postcolonial authors like W.E.B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon or (2) the role postcolonial th…Read more
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18Winner of the 2020 Josiah Royce Prize in American Idealist Thought, presented by the Josiah Royce Society, for demonstrating the extent to which Josiah Royce’s ideas about race were motivated explicitly in terms of imperial conquest. Another white Man’s Burden performs a case study of Josiah Royce’s philosophy of racial difference. In an effort to lay bare the ethnological racial heritage of American philosophy, Tommy J. Curry challenges the common notion that the cultural racism of the twentiet…Read more
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17It’s Still Black in the DetailsRadical Philosophy Review 14 (2): 169-170. 2011.African-American/Africana philosophy has made a name for itself as a critical perspective on the inadequacies of European philosophical thought. While this polemical mode has certainly contributed to the questioning of and debates over the universalism of white philosophy, it has nonetheless left Africana philosophy dependent on these criticisms to justify its existence as “philosophical.” This practice has the effect of not only distracting Black philosophers from understanding the thought of t…Read more
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145 Illuminated in Black: Arturo Alfonso Schomburg’s Revolt against Colonial Historicization—An Anti-Colonial Reflection on the Philosophy of (Black) HistoryIn Jacoby Adeshei Carter & Hernando Arturo Estévez (eds.), Philosophizing the Americas, Fordham University Press. pp. 93-116. 2024.
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10The Philosophical Treatise of William H. Ferris: Selected Readings From the African Abroad or, His Evolution in Western CivilizationRowman & Littlefield International. 2016.With a full introduction and textual commentary, this volume introduces William H. Ferris’s The African Abroad, a treatise on racial idealism, Black ethnology, and the evolution of Blacks from Negro to Negrosaxon, presenting the first evidence of a Black American idealist and evolutionary thinker in philosophy.
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9Revealing Whiteness (review)Newsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 34 (105): 43-47. 2006.
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8W.E.B. DuBois on Asia (review)Newsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 36 (107): 53-57. 2008.
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5American feminism’s anti-Black racism is often presented as a failure of white feminists to integrate Black women into their movement. This historiographic approach presumes that feminism was a progressive movement that merely suffered from blind spots in its approach to women’s rights due to the biases of some white women. Unlike previous research which has pointed out the individual racism of suffragettes and mid-twentieth-century feminists, this chapter argues for an understanding of the theo…Read more
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2He Never Mattered: Poor Black Males and the Dark Logic of Intersectional InvisibilityIn Michael Cholbi, Brandon Hogan, Alex Madva & Benjamin S. Yost (eds.), The Movement for Black Lives: Philosophical Perspectives, Oxford University Press, Usa. pp. 59-89. 2021.
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1Black Radical Nationalist Theory and Afrofuturism 2.0In Renaldo Anderson & Tommy J. Curry (eds.), Critical Black Futures: Speculative Theories and Explorations, . pp. 119-138. 2021.
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1‘You make me wanna holler and throw up both my hands!’: campus culture, Black misandric microaggressions, and racial battle fatigueInternational Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 9 (29): 1189-1209. 2016.
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1If U Don't Know—Now U Know?In Benjamin Hale (ed.), Philosophy Looks at Chess, Open Court Press. pp. 137. 2008.
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1"Shut Your Mouth when You're Talking to Me: Silencing the Idealist School of Critical Race Theory through a Culturalogic Turn in JurisprudenceGeorgetown Law Journal of Modern Critical Race Studies 1 (3): 1-38. 2011.
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1On the Perils of Race Neutrality and Anti-Blackness: Philosophy as an Irreconcilable Obstacle to ThoughtAmerican Journal of Economics and Sociology 3 (77): 657-687. 2018.
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1Thinking through the silence: theorizing the rape of Jewish males during the Holocaust through survivor testimoniesHolocaust Studies 1 (1): 1-27. 2020.Over the last several decades there has been an attempt to gender genocide by focusing on sexual as well as lethal violence during the Holocaust. While there has been tremendous consideration of women's experience of rape and sexual abuse during the Holocaust, the rape of men had not been previously engaged as a matter of study or archival investigation. This article is the first to study the rape of Jewish men and boys during the Holocaust through survivor testimonies and theorize the implicati…Read more
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1Back to the Woodshop: Black Education, Imperial Pedagogy, and Post-Racial Mythology under the Reign of ObamaTeacher's College Record 14 (117): 27-52. 2015.
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Conditioned for Death: Analysing Black Mortalities from Covid-19 and Police Killings in the United States as a Syndemic InteractionComparative American Studies An International Journal 17 (3-4): 257-270. 2021.The Covid-19 pandemic has been analysed as a distinct from, but concurrent with, more typical racist events, such as police killings in the United States. This article argues that one can conceptualise these two events as inter-related and synergistically enhanced. Anti-Black racism is a dynamic that utilises different social inequalities and violent events to manage the Black population within the United States. This article suggests that theorists would benefit from a syndemic analysis of dise…Read more
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University of EdinburghDepartment of PhilosophyPersonal Chair of Africana Philosophy & Black Male Studies
Bridge, Kent, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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African/Africana Philosophy |
Philosophy of Law |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Philosophical Traditions |
Social Sciences |
Gender Studies |
Cultural Studies |
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Philosophical Traditions |
Social Sciences |
Gender Studies |
Cultural Studies |
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