Elizabeth Catlett, Pensive Figure, 1968
This is our seventh and last installment for Black History Month (hence BHM 7). We end the BHM series today largely because, to date, it appears to have generated comparatively little interest (which is both puzzling and, for me at least, depressing).
Today’s post is for the literature—mostly books—on “Africana” and “African American” philosophy as well as “philosophy and racism.” As there may be no definitive and clear boundaries between philosophers and intellectuals in specific instances apart from the professional guild to which the former belong, one should consult the material earlier posted on “Blacks and the Left” to find a number of formidable black intellectuals, some of whom possess, I would argue, a pronounced philosophical temperament.
I will be on a blogging hiatus for roughly a week (i.e., until next month).
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