History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China

HAP 111 - A Kwanzaa Story - Maulana Karenga

The controversial career of the Pan-Africanist philosopher Maulana Karenga, inventor of the holiday Kwanzaa.

HAP 110 - Politics with Bloodshed - the Black Panthers

The philosophical underpinnings of a “vanguard of revolution” led by Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale, and Eldridge Cleaver: the Black Panther Party.

HAP 109 - Say It Loud - Black Power

How the controversial slogan “black power,” used by activists like Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown, relates to ideas of militancy, separatism, and the power of language.

HAP 108 - Or Does It Explode? - Lorraine Hansberry

The underestimated radicalism of Lorraine Hansberry, author of the famous play "A Raisin in the Sun".

HAP 107 - Lewis Gordon on Frantz Fanon

We're joined by a leading Fanon expert to talk about a range of themes in his work: Negritude, psychiatry, and violence.

HAP 106 - Combat Literature - Franz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth

Fanon’s incendiary final work explores the violent process of decolonization.

HAP 105 - Meeting the Gaze - Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin White Masks

Frantz Fanon combines existentialist philosophy and psychiatry to diagnose the condition of the colonialized target of racism.

HAP 104 - In Unity Lies Strength - Kwame Nkrumah

The first leader of independent Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah, writes against neocolonialism and in favor of socialism and Pan-Africanism.

HAP 103 - A Federal Case - Nnamdi Azikiwe and Obafemi Awolowo

Two Nigerian activists lead the struggle for independence, and clash over the competing values of national unity and ethnic diversity.

HAP 102 - From Cuba with Love - Juan Rene Betancourt

The Cuban activist and author Juan Rene Betancourt urges racial solidarity and reckons with the revolution under Castro and the island’s turn towards Communism.