History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China

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.

HAP 81 - Making History - Carter G. Woodson

Pioneering historian Carter G. Woodson argues for a new approach to education and economic uplift.

HAP 80 - Scholarly Contributions - African American Professional Philosophers

From the latter half of the nineteenth century to the 1970s, African Americans only rarely obtain jobs as philosophy professors but bring distinctive perspectives to the profession.

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.