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  • Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising

    Edited by Robert Gooding-Williams ...
    Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising keeps the public debate alive by exploring the connections between the Rodney King incidents and the ordinary workings of cultural, political, and economic power in contemporary America. Its recurrent theme is the continuing, complicated significance of race in American society. Contributors: Houston A. Baker, Jr.; Judith Butler; Sumi K. Cho; Kimberle ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Democracy and Beauty

    The Political Aesthetics of W. E. B. Du Bois

    by Robert Gooding-Williams ...
    Series series Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
    Honorable Mention, 2026 Hugh L. Silverman Book Prize in Philosophy and Literature, Association for Philosophy and LiteratureWhat is beauty, and what is its political function? In what ways might it help undermine white supremacy and cultivate a more democratic political culture? Democracy and Beauty shines a light on W. E. B. Du Bois’s attempts to answer these questions during the decade ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • In the Shadow of Du Bois

    Afro-Modern Political Thought in America

    by Robert Gooding-Williams ...
    The Souls of Black Folk is Du Bois’s outstanding contribution to modern political theory. It is his still influential answer to the question, “What kind of politics should African Americans conduct to counter white supremacy?” Here, in a major addition to American studies and the first book-length philosophical treatment of Du Bois’s thought, Robert Gooding-Williams examines the conceptual ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Look, a Negro!

    Philosophical Essays on Race, Culture, and Politics

    by Robert Gooding-Williams ...
    In Look, a Negro!, political theorist Robert Gooding-Williams imaginatively and impressively unpacks fundamental questions around race and racism. Inspired by Frantz Fanon's famous description of the profound effect of being singled out by a white child with the words Look, a Negro!, his book is an insightful, rich and unusually wide-ranging work of social criticism.These essays engage themes that ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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  • Achieving Our Humanity

    The Idea of the Postracial Future

    by Emmanuel C. Eze ...
    Achieving Our Humanity explores a postracial future through a philosophical analysis of the social, cultural, economic and political experiences of race in the past and what this might mean for our present and, most importantly, our future. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Critique of Black Reason

    by Achille Mbembe ...
    Translated by Laurent Dubois ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    In Critique of Black Reason eminent critic Achille Mbembe offers a capacious genealogy of the category of Blackness—from the Atlantic slave trade to the present—to critically reevaluate history, racism, and the future of humanity. Mbembe teases out the intellectual consequences of the reality that Europe is no longer the world's center of gravity while mapping the relations among colonialism, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Existentia Africana

    Understanding Africana Existential Thought

    by Lewis R. Gordon ...
    Series series Africana Thought
    The intellectual history of the last quarter of this century has been marked by the growing influence of Africana thought--an area of philosophy that focuses on issues raised by the struggle over ideas in African cultures and their hybrid forms in Europe, the Americas, and the Caribbean. Existentia Africana is an engaging and highly readable introduction to the field of Africana philosophy and ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Gender and the Politics of History

    by Joan Wallach Scott ...
    Series series Gender and Culture Series
    This landmark work from a renowned feminist historian is a foundational demonstration of the uses of gender as a conceptual tool for cultural and historical analysis. Joan Wallach Scott offers a trenchant critique of the compartmentalization of women’s history, arguing that political and social categories are always fundamentally shaped by gender and that questions of gender are essential to ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • X—The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought

    by Nahum Dimitri Chandler ...
    Series series American Philosophy
    The acclaimed scholar and author of Beyond This Narrow Now presents a provocative new reading of W.E.B. Du Bois with far-reaching implications.X—The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought offers an original account of matters African American, and by implication the African diaspora in general, as an object of discourse and knowledge. It likewise challenges the conception of analogous ... Read more

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  • Against Epistemic Apartheid

    W.E.B. Du Bois and the Disciplinary Decadence of Sociology

    by Reiland Rabaka ...
    In this intellectual history-making volume, multiple award-winning W. E. B. Du Bois scholar Reiland Rabaka offers the first book-length treatment of Du Bois's seminal sociological discourse: from Du Bois as inventor of the sociology of race to Du Bois as the first sociologist of American religion; from Du Bois as a pioneer of urban and rural sociology to Du Bois as innovator of the sociology of ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • "Beyond This Narrow Now"

    Or, Delimitations, of W. E. B. Du Bois

    by Nahum Dimitri Chandler ...
    In “Beyond This Narrow Now” Nahum Dimitri Chandler shows that the premises of W. E. B. Du Bois's thinking at the turn of the twentieth century stand as fundamental references for the whole itinerary of his thought. Opening with a distinct approach to the legacy of Du Bois, Chandler proceeds through a series of close readings of Du Bois's early essays, previously unpublished or seldom studied, with ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Toward an African Future—Of the Limit of World

    by Nahum Dimitri Chandler ...
    Series series SUNY series, Literature...in Theory
    Examines the thought of W. E. B. Du Bois, with attention to its potential for reorienting present-day critical theory and political philosophy.Widely known for his probing analysis of W. E. B. Du Bois's early work, in this book Nahum Dimitri Chandler references writing from across the whole of Du Bois's long career, while bringing sharp focus on two later texts issued in the immediate aftermath of ... Read more

    $32.99 USD