History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China

HAP 79 - Leonard Harris on Alain Locke

Leonard Harris explains how Locke's value theory was the basis for his aesthetics and theories of democracy and race. 

HAP 78 - Freedom Through Art - Alain Locke

The aesthetics of Alain Locke and its basis in his theory of value judgments.

HAP 77 - A Race Capital - The Harlem Renaissance

The artistic flowering of the 1920s known as the Harlem Renaissance raises important questions about identity and the purpose of art.

HAP 76 - Michael Dawson on Garvey and Black Nationalism

An interview with Michael Dawson, who explains Marcus Garvey's black nationalism and how this and other political ideologies, like socialism and liberalism, have fared from the time of Garvey down to the present day.

HAP 75 - Now I Have a Rival - The Two Amy Garveys

Marcus Garvey’s two wives, Amy Ashwood Garvey and Amy Jacques Garvey, establish themselves as activists in their own right and bring feminism into the Pan-African movement.

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.