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Philosophies: Selected Readings, from Jupiter Hammon to Eugene C. Holmes (Upper
Montclair, NJ: Montclair State College Press, 1970).
- Leonard Harris, ed., Philosophy Born of Struggle: Anthology of Afro- American Philosophy
from 1917, 2nd ed. (Dubuque, IA: Kendall/ Hunt, 2000).
- Philosophical Forum 9, nos. 2– 3 (Winter– Spring 1977– 78), special double issue, ed. Jesse
McDade and Carl Lesnor, “Philosophy and the Black Experience”; Philosophical Forum
24, nos. 1– 3 (Fall– Spring 1992– 93), special triple issue, ed. John Pittman, “African-
American Perspectives and Philosophical Traditions”; John Pittman, ed., African-
American Perspectives and Philosophical Traditions (New York: Routledge, 1996). As
Lucius Outlaw has pointed out, the late Marx Wartofsky, editor of the journal, deserves
considerable credit for this generous opening of his pages to African American phi-
losophers, something very few if any other white editors of the time would have been
prepared to do.
- Cornel West, Prophesy Deliverance! An Afro- American Revolutionary Christianity, 20th anni-
versary ed., with a new preface (Philadelphia: Westminster John Knox Press, 2002; orig.
ed. 1982); Bernard R. Boxill, Blacks and Social Justice, rev. ed. (Lanham, MD: Rowman &
Littlefield, 1992; orig. ed. 1984).
- Lewis R. Gordon, An Introduction to Africana Philosophy (New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2008); Derrick Darby, Rights, Race, and Recognition
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009); Thomas McCarthy, Race, Empire,
and the Idea of Human Development (New York: Cambridge University Press,
2009); Christopher J. Lebron, The Color of Our Shame: Race and Justice in Our Time
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2013); Tommie Shelby, We Who Are Dark: The
Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press, 2005); Robert Gooding- Williams, In the Shadow of Du Bois: Afro- Modern
Political Thought in America (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009);
Leonard Harris and Charles Molesworth, Alain L. Locke: The Biography of a Philosopher
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008).
- See, for example, Lucius T. Outlaw Jr., “What Is Africana Philosophy?” in George Yancy,
ed., Philosophy in Multiple Voices (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007).
- Outlaw, “What Is Africana Philosophy?”
- Harris, Philosophy Born of Struggle, 2nd ed., p. 345. The letter, under the heading “‘Believe
It or Not’ or the Ku Klux Klan and American Philosophy Exposed,” originally appeared in
the APA Proceedings and Addresses 68, no. 5 (May 1995): 133– 37. It is reprinted in Harris,
Philosophy Born of Struggle, 2nd ed.
- Harris, “ ‘Believe It or Not’ ” (in Philosophy Born of Struggle), p. 346.
- Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York University website.
- Shelby, We Who Are Dark.
- Tina Fernandes Botts et al., “What Is the State of Blacks in Philosophy?” Critical Philosophy
of Race 2, no. 2 (2014): 224– 42.
- Indeed, there is some reason to think that the number of tenured black professors may
actually diminish in the coming years. Liam Kofi Bright, one of the co- authors of the
“What Is the State of Blacks in Philosophy?” article (above), suggests that— based, ceteris
paribus, on the current numbers in the pipeline and the current attrition rate— the most
likely prognosis is for a future reduction in numbers (personal communication).
- In the original appearance of this chapter, I had included Souleymane Bachir Diagne
as being at Columbia. However Diagne is in the Department of French and Romance
Philology, with only a secondary appointment in Philosophy.
- Because his website made no mention of race, I had in my original chapter excluded
Hardimon from the list of black philosophers currently working on race. However,
Hardimon has informed me that the website information was dated, and that he is in fact
doing a book on race.
- Kwame Anthony Appiah, Lines of Descent: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014).
- Admittedly, another route would be to get a PhD in a related area of philosophy and then
simply educate oneself through one’s own reading— as indeed older figures in the field
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