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Recent Research Activities
The Invention of Race: Black Culture and the
Politics of Representation
(Blackwell, 1999). Editor, African-American
Philosophy: Selected Co-editor with Robert Bernasconi, The Idea of Race (Hackett,
2000). Co-editor with Julie K. Ward, Philosophers on Race: Critical Essays
(Blackwell , 2002). Co-editor with John Pittman, A Companion to African-American
Philosophy (Blackwell, 2003). Guest editor Special Issue: Race and Social Theory, Nineteenth-Century Contexts 22.2 (Spring
2000). Articles “African Retentions” in Tommy L. Lott and John P.
Pittman, eds., A Companion to
African-American Philosophy (Blackwell, 2003), 168-89. “Alain Leroy Locke: African American Cultural Historian”
in Chris Murray, ed., Key Writers on Art:
The Twentieth Century (Routledge, 2002), pp. 192-99. “Patriarchy and Slavery in Hobbes’s Political Philosophy”
in Julie K. Ward and Tommy L. Lott, eds., Philosophers on Race: Critical Essays
(Blackwell, 2002), 63-80. “The 1960s Avant-Garde Movement in Jazz” Social Identities 7.2 (Spring 2001):
165-177. “Du
Bois’s Anthropological Notion of Race” in Robert Bernasconi, ed. Race (Blackwell, 2001), 59-83. “Du
Bois and Locke on the Scientific Study of the Negro” Special Issue, Sociology Hesitant: Thinking with Du
Bois, boundary 2 27.3 (Fall 2000):
135-152. “Kara Walker Speaks: A Public Conversation on Racism,
Art, and Politics” in Black Renaissance
Noire 3.1 (Fall 2000): 69-91. "Documenting Social Issues: Black Journal 1968-70" in
Janet Cutler and Phyllis R. Klotman, eds., Struggles for Representation: African
American Documentary, Film and Video (Indiana University Press, 1999),
71-98. Book Reviews Paul Taylor, Race:
A Philosophical Introduction (Polity Press, 2003) in Choice, (February,
2004). Clarence Shole Johnson, Cornel West and Philosophy: The Quest for
Social Justice (Routledge, 2003) in Choice 41.2 (October,
2003). Ross Harrison,
Hobbes, Locke, and Confusion’s Masterpiece (Cambridge University Press,
2003) in Choice, 41.1 (September,
2003). Robert E. Birt, ed., The Quest for Community and Identity:
Critical Essays in Africana Social Philosophy (Rowman & Littlefield,
2002) in Choice 39 (Sept. 2002). Andrew Levine, Engaging Political Philosophy: From Hobbes
to Rawls (Blackwell, 2002) in Choice 39.10 (June
2002). Jacob U. Gordon, Black Leadership For Social Change
( Phil Zuckerman, ed., Du Bois On Religion (AltaMira 2000) in
Choice 38.10 (June,
2001). Ivan Karp and D.A. Masolo, eds., African Philosophy As Cultural Inquiry
( Paget Henry, Caliban’s Reason (Routledge 2000) in Choice 38.4 (December,
2000). 20th World Congress of Philosophy: Paideia Project On-line. in Choice 37 Supplement
(2000). Charles W. Mills,
Blackness Visible: Essays On Philosophy and Race (Cornell 1998) in Choice 36.10 (June,
1999). P.
H. Coetzee and A. P. J. Roux, eds., The
African Philosophy Reader (Routledge, 1998) in Choice 37.1 (September,
1999). Samuel O. Imbo, An
Introduction To African Philosophy (Rowman & Littlefield, 1998) in Choice 36.6 (February,
1999). In
progress “The Influence of Spencer’s Social Darwinism on Du Bois’s
Concept of Race” in Penelope Deutscher’s forthcoming anthology on evolutionary
theory. “Racial Pride and Panethnic Identity” in David Kim, ed.,
Passions and the Color
Line. By What Means Soever: Conquest and Voluntary
Action in Hobbes’s Political Theory. Independent Black Cinema: Slow Fade to
White. Colloquia “Cornel West and the “Cosmopolitan and Diaspora Identity in the Films of
Manthia Diawara and Joe Brewster” Black
American Cinema Re-considered: The Contemporary Scene, “How to Socially Construct a Black ‘Model Minority’” Afro-Asian Politics: Converging Histories
and Current Prospects, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA,
“The Influence of Social Darwinism on Du Bois’s Concept
of Race” Kaplan Center for the Humanities Lecture Series, Gender, Evolution and the Transhuman,
Northwestern University, Evanston, Il, “Can racial identity be transcended?” Keynote Speaker, Symposium: The Ideology of Race,
Department of Black Studies, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA,
“The Wrongness of Slavery” Conference: The Moral Legacy of Slavery:
Repairing Injustice, Department of Philosophy, Bowling Green State
University, Bowling Green, OH, “The Construction of Race: Fantasies about the Body” The American Dilemma Revisited:
Psychoanalysis, Social Policy, and the Socio-Cultural Meaning of Race,
“The Politics of Panethnic Identities” Department of
Philosophy, “Latino Panethnic Identity”Passions of the Color Line Conference,
“Asian-American Panethnic Identity,” American
Philosophical Association, Pacific Meeting, “Alain Locke’s Oxford Dissertation on Value,” American
Philosophical Association, Pacific Meeting, “The Legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois Today,” The Niebyl-Proctor
Marxist Library, “Patriarchy and Slavery in Hobbes’s Political
Philosophy,” Rutgers University Summer Institute for Minority Undergraduates,
New Brunswick, NJ, “Patriarchy and Racism,” African American Studies
Department, “The Philosophical Significance of the Writings of
Hortense Spillers,” A “National Treasury
of Rhetorical Wealth”: A Symposium on the Work of Hortense Spillers, Center
for the Study of Black Literature and Culture, “Du
Bois’s Anthropological Notion of Race,” African-American Studies, University of
Conversation with Kara Walker, Dialogue on Art Series, “Alain
Locke’s Theory of African-American Culture,” “Moral Implications of the Distinction between Slavery
and Servitude,” Conference: Association for Practical and Professional Ethics,
Commentator Panel on Anna Julia Cooper, American Philosophical
Association, Central Division Meeting, Panel on State Violence and Genocide, American
Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting, Panel on John Locke’s Theory of Property, American
Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting, Panel on Hobbes’s Political Theory, American
Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting, Panel on Affirmative Action with John Perry and Kenneth
Taylor, Philosophy Department, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, Paul Taylor and Charles Mills, Author Meets Critics:
Tommy L. Lott, The Invention of Race,
American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meeting, Jorge Garcia, “Racial and Ethnic Identity: Some Problems”
Conference on Passions of the Color Line:
Emotion and Power in Racial Construction, Other
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