Articles in Philosophy & Religion tagged with Race

Lewis Gordon, Nathalie Etoke

What Does It Mean to Be Free?

In the Black existentialist tradition, freedom lies in the constant struggle for liberation.

Cornel West, Panashe Chigumadzi

Black Spirit, Black Struggle

When Desmond Tutu reconciled African theology and Black theology.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

The Fight for Reparations Cannot Ignore Climate Change

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

In Pursuit of Racial Justice: The Life and Thought of Charles W. Mills

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

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

The Captive Photograph

Images seized from enslaved people are not private property to be owned, but ancestors to be cared for.

Minkah Makalani

Cedric Robinson and the Origins of Race

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

Why Black Marxism, Why Now?

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

How Nations Heal

We cannot simply put the past behind us. The framework of transitional justice offers a promising path forward.

Luvell Anderson

Whiteness Is the Greatest Racial Fraud

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

Why We Shouldn’t Compare Transracial to Transgender Identity

Unlike gender inequality, racial inequality primarily accumulates across generations. Transracial identification undermines collective reckoning with that injustice.

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