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Articles in Philosophy & Religion tagged with Race

Lewis Gordon, Nathalie Etoke

Lewis Gordon and Nathalie Etoke discuss the space for freedom opened up by Black existentialist thought.

Cornel West, Panashe Chigumadzi

When Desmond Tutu reconciled African theology and Black theology.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
Racial redress should be modeled on the global anticolonial tradition of worldbuilding.

A recording of a virtual roundtable to honor the life and work of Charles W. Mills.

Minkah Makalani
As more of Robinson’s books come back into print, reading them with Black Marxism can enrich our understanding of racial capitalism and offer additional tools for fighting our political impasse.
Robin D. G. Kelley

The threat of fascism has grown before our eyes. Black Marxism helps us to fight it with greater clarity, with a more expansive conception of the task before us, and with ever more questions.

Colleen Murphy
We cannot simply put the past behind us. The framework of transitional justice offers a promising path forward.
Luvell Anderson
The Krugs and Dolezals dominate the headlines, but they are distractions from the fraud that imperils us all: believing oneself to be white.
Dee Payton, Robin Dembroff
Unlike gender inequality, racial inequality primarily accumulates across generations. Transracial identification undermines collective reckoning with that injustice.
Judith Butler, Brandon M. Terry

Judith Butler talks with Brandon M. Terry about MLK, the grievability of black lives, and how to defend nonviolence today. 

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