History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China

HAP 91 - Massa Day Done - Oliver Cox and Eric Williams

Two Trinidadian political thinkers: sociologist Oliver Cox analyzes the nature of racial prejudice, and historian Eric Williams connects capitalism to slavery.

HAP 90 - Move Fast and Break Things - C.L.R. James

The Trinidadian historian and cultural critic C.L.R. James applies Marxist analysis to the Haitian Revolution, American cinema, and Shakespeare.

HAP 89 - Separate but Unequal - E. Franklin Frazier

Sociologist E. Franklin Frazier critiques the Harlem Renaissance and the “black bourgeoisie” for failing to embrace values that will empower black Americans.

HAP 88 - The Surreal Deal - Aimé and Suzanne Césaire

Negritude thinkers Aimé and Suzanne Césaire embrace surrealism and reflect on the relationships between poetry, knowledge, and identity.

HAP 87 - Call It Intuition - Leopold Senghor

Leopold Senghor compares different ways of knowing while developing his theory of Negritude and combining the roles of poet and politician.  

HAP 86 - French Connection - The Negritude Movement

Our first look at the emergence of the Negritude movement in Paris in the 1930s, with a focus on the early leadership of the Nardal sisters and Leon Damas.

HAP 85 - Liam Kofi Bright on Du Bois‘ Philosophy of Science

Guest Liam Kofi Bright discusses Du Bois' ideal of value-free science and the place of science within his wider thought.

HAP 84 - Live Long and Protest - W.E.B. Du Bois, 1920-1963

Du Bois moves to the left, and revisits and refines older positions during the latter half of his very long life.

HAP 83 - Songs of the People - Paul Robeson and the Negro Spiritual

The career of the multi-talented activist and performer Paul Robeson, and the place of the Negro spiritual in the Harlem Renaissance.

HAP 82 - The Florida Project - Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston’s interest in Africana folklore feeds into her great novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.