History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China

HAP 74 - Black Star - Marcus Garvey

Marcus Garvey leads a powerful movement, inspires racial pride, and feuds with other thinkers like Du Bois.

HAP 73 - Vanessa Wills on Africana Marxism

Vanessa Wills speaks  to us about Marx and his Africana legacy, with a special focus on black women Marxists.

HAP 72 - In A Class of Their Own - Early African American Socialism

Around the time of World War One, Hubert Harrison, A. Philip Randolph, and other black socialists argue that racial oppression is caused by capitalism.

HAP 71 - In Blyden’s Wake - West African Intellectuals of the Early Twentieth Century

West African intellectuals like J.E. Casely-Hayford and Mojola Agbebi build upon Edward Blyden’s ideas at the dawn of the twentieth century.

HAP 70 - Tommy Curry on the Early 20th Century

We chat with Tommy Curry about African-American thought between the turn of the century and the Harlem Renaissance.

HAP 69 - The Best We Have - The American Negro Academy

The ANA unites leading African American scholars of the early 20th century, including W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Laurence Dunbar, William Ferris, Archibald Grimké, and Kelly Miller.

HAP 68 - The Problem of the Color Line - Introducing the Twentieth Century

By exploring the work and activities of W.E.B. Du Bois around the turn of the twentieth century, we introduce some of the themes of our coverage of that century.

HAP 67 - Chike Jeffers on Slavery and Diasporic Philosophy

Co-host Chike joins Peter to look back at series 2 and ahead to series 3.

HAP 66 - Lifting the Veil - Introducing W.E.B. Du Bois

W.E.B. Du Bois emerges as a historian, sociologist, and innovative philosophical thinker in the 1890s, and introduces his famous idea of "double consciousness."

HAP 65 - Separate Fingers, One Hand - Booker T. Washington

Was Booker T. Washington’s “accomodationist” approach to race relations a failure to stand up to injustice or a cunning strategy for incremental change?