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Africana Philosophy Professor🇿🇲🇿🇲

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2 years
Can finally share the TEDx talk “Black Males Deserve More Than a Death Dealing World.”#BlackMaleStudies.
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Excited to finally get my copy of this important book!!! Hope this text gets a lot engagement because Bayo is one of one!!!!! Book is available on Amazon!!
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RT @Phil_Lewis_: Must read: The Guardian spoke to nine children whose parents were members of the Black Panther Party — and explored how th….
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RT @MudandMayo: Mark your calenders: I'm conducting a FREE 3 week online seminar on Thursdays at 730pm EST. March 13, 20, and 27th. We'l….
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RT @MudandMayo: Would anyone be interested in a free, facilitated (be me) online seminar getting deep into Soledad Brother? .
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that should be studied on its own terms in Philosophy.
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to Black Political Organizing and the creation of Black Institutions freedman and slaves used to challenge slavery. In this essay I build on DuBois’ timeline to argue that there is a distinct tradition in early modern world of resisting slavery by enslaved Africans.
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🚨New Pub Alret🚨 This essay builds on my dissertation and work I meant to publish while on my Pos-Doc😅. Dubois (1907) in Economic Co-operation Among Negro Americans drew a timeline from 1500-1900 showing how insurrections by enslaved Africans in the early modern world led
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6 months
It is a bold endeavor to delineate Black epistemology as a new sub-disciplinary focus in contemporary Africana or Black Philosophy.” Cant wait to read this when it drops!
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6 months
Super excited for my brother Bayo and his upcoming book that is available for preorder. “This book engages in a rigorous historical study of Black intellectual history to highlight the knowledge systems created by Black people in the last 150 to 200 years.
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Super excited to start off the year with an invited talk at the American Philosophy Association Symposium on Early Modern Black Philosophers. More importantly get to do the symposium with my brother Bayo who has a new book coming on in June on Black Epistemologies!
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Of $2,850 for housing and travel. Deadline is March 5 2025z.
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7 months
Ill be teaching a session focusing on Ottobah Cugoano’s Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery and Pompee Vastey’s The Colonial System Unveiled. Open to faculty and advanced graduate students. Participants will receive a stipend.
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7 months
Excited to be a visiting faculty with this project.
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8 months
RT @eihtbeezy: My recent publication is now available to the public. If you're interested in the intellectual history and evolution of Blac….
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RT @Phil_Lewis_: Widespread reports of racist text messages sent to Black Americans saying, "you have been selected to pick cotton at the n….
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Incredibly grateful to have gotten to spend time with these incredible gentlemen and scholars. Looking forward to the continued work to done in Black Male Studies.
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Excited to host these three scholars next week as part of the Black Male Studies class im teaching this semester!
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1 year
Excited to share my latest article. The article argues in part that despite the universality of human rights Black males are excluded from being seen as a vulnerable group worthy of protection in human rights protocols on arbitrary killings by police.
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