Fellows

Race: A Philosophical Introduction (Philosophy Today)

Black Is Beautiful: A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics (under contract, Blackwell)

"While Democracy Sleeps" (lead author, with contributions from Eddie S. Glaude, Stephanie Robinson, and Ronald S. Sullivan), (New Haven: The Jamestown Project at Yale, 2005).  while democracy sleeps 350.40 Kb

"Appiah's Way: Blackness, Blood, and the Politics of Liberal Philosophy," The Symposium on Gender and Race in Philosophy, Vol. 1, no. 1 (May 2005).

"Three Questions about Race, Racism, and Reparations: Commentary on Corlett," Journal of Social Philosophy, 36:4, 559-67 (Winter 2005)

"What's the Use of Calling Du Bois a Pragmatist?" Metaphilosophy 35: 1-2 (January 2004)

"Appiah's Uncompleted Argument: Du Bois and the Reality of Race," Social Theory and Practice 26:1, 103-28 (Spring 2000)

"Malcolm's Conk and Danto's Colors, or: Four Logical Petitions Concerning Race, Beauty, and Aesthetics" Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 57:1, 16-20 (Winter 1999); reprinted in Beauty Matters, Peg Brand, ed. (Indiana University Press, 2000); and in African American Literary Theory, Winston Napier, ed. (New York University Press, 2000)

"Funky White Boys and Honorary Soul Sisters" Michigan Quarterly Review 36:2, 320-35 (1997); reprinted in Signs Of Life In the U.S.A.: Readings On Popular Culture For Writers, 3^rd ed., Sonia Maasik and Jack Solomon, eds. (Bedford-St. Martin's, 2000)  funkyandhonorary 81.62 Kb

Events and Press

"How to be a racialist - and when," Fourth Annual Conference of the Africa Genome Education Institute, Somerset West,South Africa (March 2006 - invited)

"Race Problems and Unknowing Publics," conference on The Ethics and Epistemologies of Ignorance, Pennsylvania State University (March 2004 - invited)

Commentary on J. Angelo Corlett's Race, Racism, and Reparations, annual meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division (December 2004 - invited)

"Melancholy, Reprieve, and Moving Pictures," Forty-Third Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (October 2004 - invited)

Panelist, forum on felon disenfranchisement, Eleventh Annual Rebellious Lawyers Conference, Yale Law School (February 2004 - invited)

"Ellowen Deeowen: Satanic Verses and the Vocation of Thinking," 2002 Loemker Conference, Emory University (September 2002 - invited)

Commentary on Tommy Lott's The Invention of Race, annual meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Central Division (April 2002 - invited)

Respondent, colloquium on Michael Root's "Does Race Travel," annual meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division (February 2002 - invited)

"Pragmatism and African-American Philosophy," annual meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Central Division (May 2001 - invited)

Commentary on Richard Shusterman's Pragmatist Aesthetics, annual meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division (April 2001 - invited)