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11A Forum on Creolizing Social and Political TheoryPhilosophy and Global Affairs 1 (2): 267-275. 2021.The author discusses Jane Anna Gordon’s proposal, in the 2006 international meeting of the Caribbean Philosophical Association, of creolizing theory. He summarizes the research it generated, including Gordon’s monograph on creolizing political theory, and the set of articles in this forum on creolizing social and political identities and theory.
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11Making Science Reasonable: Peter Caws on Science Both Human and 'Natural'Janus Head: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Literature, Continental Philosophy, Phenomenological Psychology, and the Arts 5 (1): 14-38. 2002.
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10Geopolitics and Decolonization: Perspectives From the Global South (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield International. 2017.This volume presents timely commentaries on issues relating to Africa and Latin America, demonstrating the value of intercultural dialogue amongst voices from the Global South on decoloniality, cultural rights and politics.
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10A Girl in Black, a Woman in the African DiasporaPhilosophy and Global Affairs 3 (2): 359-372. 2023.This memoriam essay begins with a reflection on the author’s relationship to Drucilla Cornell, the famed activist, revolutionary legal theorist, social and political philosopher, playwright, and biographer. It then proceeds to examine her contributions to Africana existential revolutionary thought and the Caribbean-inspired project of shifting the geography of reason.
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9Africana insightThe Philosophers' Magazine 47 47-51. 2009.A mistaken view of Africana philosophy is that it is parasitic on Western philosophy, and that it is so in a way that limits its legitimacy as an area of thought. This misconception is often alluded to, although not intended, in the phrase “philosophy and the black experience” or “philosophy and the Africana experience”.
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9Existentia Africana: Understanding Africana Existential ThoughtRoutledge. 2000.First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
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9Remembering George Lamming (1927–2022), with Thoughts on In the Castle of My SkinPhilosophy and Global Affairs 3 (1): 46-59. 2023.The first part of this memoriam essay focuses on the author’s relationship with the famed Bajan intellectual George Lamming during his years at Brown University. The second part explores Lamming’s most famous work, In the Castle of My Skin (1953), which offers important tropes in Black existential thought that are synchronous with Frantz Fanon’s Peau noir, masques blancs (1952), but with a more detailed exploration of the concept of political complicity through Lamming’s portrait of the phenomen…Read more
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9L'existence noire dans la philosophie de la cultureDiogène 236 (3): 130-144. 2012.This article examines an Africana philosophy of culture of black existence through, after offering a critique of a theodicy of textuality and social reality, exploration of the construction of “problem people,” of people whose existence, marked by blackness, has been treated as a challenge to reason and the search for knowledge in the modern world. As Africana philosophy raises concerns of philosophical anthropology, philosophy of freedom, and a metacritique of reason, it offers, as well, a case…Read more
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8Fanon's approach to phenomenology and psychoanalysisSouthern Journal of Philosophy. forthcoming.This article distinguishes thought on phenomenology and psychoanalysis versus doing phenomenology and psychoanalysis and argues that while Fanon was primarily concerned with the latter, his thought also offers contributions to the former. They include methodological critique and an interrogation into the human sciences that includes a psychoanalytical decolonial critical reflection on science linked to open possibilities of human conditions.
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8Critical reflections on three popular tropes in the study of whitenessIn George Yancy (ed.), What White Looks Like: African-American Philosophers on the Whiteness Question, Routledge. 2004.
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7Obligations Across Generations: A Consideration in the Understanding of Community FormationIn Philip Alperson (ed.), Diversity and Community, Blackwell. 2004-01-01.
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7Revolutionary Hope: Essays in Honor of William L. Mcbride (edited book)Lexington Books. 2013.Over the course of the last four decades, William Leon McBride has distinguished himself as one of the most esteemed and accomplished philosophers of his generation. This volume—which celebrates the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday—includes contributions from colleagues, friends, and formers students and pays tribute to McBride’s considerable achievements as a teacher, mentor, and scholar
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4Black existentialismIn Alan D. Schrift (ed.), The History of Continental Philosophy, University of Chicago Press. pp. 4--199. 2010.
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4Grown folks' business: The problem of maturity in hip hopIn D. Darby & T. Shelby (eds.), Hip Hop and Philosophy, Open Court. pp. 2--105. 2005.
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2Making Science Reasonable: Peter Caws on Science both Human and “Natural”Janus Head 5 (1): 14-38. 2002.
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1Philosophy in Multiple VoicesRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2007.The scope of Philosophy in Multiple Voices provides the reader with eight philosophical streams of thought-African-American, Afro-Caribbean, Asian-American, Feminist, Latin-American, Lesbian, Native-American and Queer-that introduce readers to alternative, complex philosophical questions concerning gendered, sexed, racial and ethnic identities, canon formation, and meta-philosophy. The overriding theme of the text is that philosophy is pluralistic in voice, rich in diversity, and ought to valori…Read more
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1Thinking Through The Americas TodayIn George Yancy (ed.), Reframing the Practice of Philosophy: Bodies of Color, Bodies of Knowledge, State University of New York Press. pp. 271-291. 2012.
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African-american existential philosophyIn Tommy Lee Lott & John P. Pittman (eds.), A Companion to African-American Philosophy, Blackwell. 2003.
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Sartre and Black ExistentialismIn Jonathan Judaken (ed.), Race After Sartre: Antiracism, Africana Existentialism, Postcolonialism, State University of New York Press. pp. 157-171. 2008.
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Spoils of War: Women of Color, Cultures, and Revolutions (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1997.In Spoils of War, a diverse group of distinguished contributors suggest that acts of aggression resulting from the racism and sexism inherent in social institutions can be viewed as a sort of "war," experienced daily by women of color
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Justice otherwise: thoughts on UbuntuIn Leonhard Praeg & Siphokazi Magadla (eds.), Ubuntu: curating the archive, University of Kwazulu-natal Press. 2014.
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Tragic Dimensions of Our Neocolonial ‘Postcolonial’ WorldIn Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze (ed.), Postcolonial African Philosophy: A Critical Reader, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 241251. 1997.
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University of ConnecticutDepartment of PhilosophyHead and Professor of Philosophy and Global Affairs
Areas of Specialization
Philosophical Traditions |
Value Theory |
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Areas of Interest
Philosophical Traditions |
Value Theory |
Metaphysics and Epistemology |