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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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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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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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420The Fortune of Wells: Ida B. Wells-Barnett's Use of T. Thomas Fortune's Philosophy of Social Agitation as a Prolegomenon to Militant Civil Rights ActivismTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 48 (4): 456-482. 2012.Jesus Christ may be regarded as the chief spirit of agitation and innovation. He himself declared, “I come not to bring peace, but a sword.” One cannot delve seriously into the centuries of activism and scholarship against racism, Jim Crowism, and the terrorism of lynching without encountering the legacies of Timothy Thomas Fortune and Ida B. Wells-Barnett. Black scholars from the 19th century to the present have been inspired by the sociological and economic works of Fortune and Wells. Scholars…Read more
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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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146The release of Kanye West’s Yeezus was indelibly marked by the provocation of his hit song entitled “New Slaves,” which introduced a pessimistic terminology to capture the paradoxical condition whereby Black freedom from enslavement only resulted in the capturing of Black people psychically in the neo-liberal entanglements of poverty, servitude, and corporatism. His analysis, not unlike currently en vogue theories of Afro-pessimism or Critical Race Theory’s realist lens, maintains that despite a…Read more
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102George Floyd Jr as a Philosophical ProblemThe Harvard Review of Philosophy 28 171-191. 2021.The trial of Derek Chauvin, the man who murdered Mr. George Floyd Jr on May 25, 2020, has become a national spectacle. For many Black Americans, it is merely another rehearsal of the injustice that befalls Black men in the United States when they are targeted by police violence. Mr. Floyd was murdered in broad daylight by Chauvin, yet it is Mr. Floyd’s character and temperament that is being depicted as threatening to Chauvin and the reason for his murder. Throughout the discipline of philosophy…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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54Hayti Was the Measure: Anti-Black Racism and the Echoes of Empire in Josiah Royce’s Philosophy of LoyaltyThe Pluralist 16 (2): 73-97. 2021.In 1814, Baron de Vastey wrote in The Colonial System Unveiled: “When Europeans came to the new world, their first steps were accompanied by crimes on a grand scale, massacres, the destruction of empires, the obliteration of entire nations from the ranks of the living”. Jean Louis Vastey was a Black Haytien man born in 1781, who assumed the role of an administrator in Hayti after Jean-Jacques Dessalines freed the island from European rule. The Haytien Revolution, which was fought from 1791 to 18…Read more
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52Penning Dissent: The Methodological and Historiographic Motivations behind the Writing of Another white Man’s BurdenThe Pluralist 16 (2): 10-21. 2021.Over the last decade, my interest in Josiah Royce has been motivated by a question: What is the relationship between historical and verifiable facts and philosophical interpretation or theory? This question is of tremendous consequence in philosophy since the discipline requires no empirical or archival evidence to substantiate the arguments that are made for or against a “specific philosopher” or thinker beyond the impression the philosopher and other philosophers have made about the “specific …Read more
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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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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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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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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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123II—Must There Be an Empirical Basis for the Theorization of Racialized Subjects in Race-Gender Theory?Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 121 (1): 21-44. 2021.This article argues that non-ideal theory fails to deliver on its promise of providing a more accurate account of the real world by which philosophers can address problems of racism, sexual violence, and poverty. Because non-ideal theory relies on abstractions of groups which are idealized as causes for social phenomena, non-idealists imagine that categories like race or gender predict how groups behave in the real world. This article maintains that non-idealist abstractions often result in inac…Read more
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182The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black ManhoodTemple University Press. 2017.Tommy J. Curry’s provocative book The Man-Not is a justification for Black Male Studies and won the 2018 American Book Award. He posits that we should conceptualize the Black male as a victim, oppressed by his sex. The Man-Not, therefore, is a corrective of sorts, offering a concept of Black males that could challenge the existing accounts of Black men and boys desiring the power of white men who oppress them that has been proliferated throughout academic research across disciplines. Curry argue…Read more
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2781Intersectionality has utilized various feminist theories that continue subculture of violence thinking about Black men and boys. While intersectional feminists often claim that intersectionality leads to a clearer social analysis of power and hierarchies throughout society and within groups, the categories and claims of intersectionality fail to distinguish themselves from previously racist theories that sought to explain race, class, and gender, based on subcultural values. This article is the …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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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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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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43It’s for the Kids: The Sociological Significance of W.E.B. Du Bois’ The Brownies’ Books and Their Philosophical Relevance for our Understanding of Gender in the Ethnological AgeGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 36 (1): 27-57. 2015.
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University of EdinburghDepartment of PhilosophyPersonal Chair of Africana Philosophy & Black Male Studies
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