History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China

HAP 138 - Taking it Out of Neutral - Critical Race Theory

A movement of legal scholars diagnoses the limitations of merely “formal” measures against discrimination, a point they connect to issues like affirmative action, democratic process, and intersectionality.

HAP 137 - Asante Sana - Molefi Asante’s Afrocentricity

What inspired Asante's controversial philosophy of Afrocentricity, and its relationship to religion, nationalism, and feminism.

HAP 136 - Civilization Reclaimed - African-Centered Thought

How writers like George G.M. James, John Henrik Clarke, Cheikh Anta Diop, Yosef ben-Jochannan, and Chancellor Williams prepared the way for the Afrocentricity of Molefi Asante and captured the imaginations of hip hop artists and intellectuals like Ta-Nehisi Coates.

HAP 135 - Mastering Ceremonies - Sylvia Wynter

Sylvia Wynter offers a bold and provocative assessment of the role of the humanities in understanding humankind.

HAP 134 - The Marx Brothers - Cedric J. Robinson

Cedric J. Robinson reflects on the power and limitations of Marxism while charting the past and prospects of black radical thought.

HAP 133 - John Drabinski on Edouard Glissant

The author of an important book on Glissant joins us to talk about his approach to this major Caribbean thinker.

HAP 132 - French Creolizing - Edouard Glissant and the Creolité Movement

Poet, novelist, playwright and philosopher Edouard Glissant, his theory of "creolization", and the Creolists who were influence by him. 

HAP 131 - Mixed Messages - Black British Cultural Studies

Stuart Hall pioneers “cultural studies,” offering tools for analysis of films, television, fiction and music that were put to use by followers like Paul Gilroy and Hazel Carby.

HAP 130 - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o on... Himself!

The great Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o joins us to speak about his career, his influences, and the power and politics of language.

HAP 129 - Afrophone Home - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

How one of Kenya's greatest writers came to argue that African literature should be written in African languages.