History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China

HAP 114 - Teacher Taught Me - Julius Nyerere

The first leader of independent Tanzania grounds his socialist ideas in traditional African values.

HAP 113 - A Fighting God - Black Theology

After Albert Cleage and James Cone propose a liberatory interpretation of Christianity, William R. Jones wonders whether God is a white racist. We also follow Black Theology among “Womanist” authors and in South Africa.

HAP 112 - Poems That Kill - the Black Arts Movement

African American literature of the late 1960s reflects the Black Power movement, in the works of such authors as Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, Haki Madhubuti, Larry Neal, and Sonia Sanchez.

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.