| The Society for the Study of Africana Philosophy (SSAP), based in New York City, has been a forum for the discussion of philosophical ideas for over thirty years. SSAP was established to provide a network of support for young African American philosophers and other intellectuals in the academy, to bring together alternative voices to de-center the predominant 'Eurocentric' focus of and lack of diversity in most academic philosophy departments, and to provide a place for lay intellectuals to exchange ideas with professional academics in an informal setting.
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| Alfred E. Prettyman, Host |
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Next Meeting
When: May 18, 2008, 1:30 P.M.
Where: 215 W. 98th Street, No. 12B (Apt. of Al Prettyman)
Presenter: Prof. Larry Blum (University of Massachusetts, Boston)
"RACE, CLASS, AND IMMIGRATION: A NORMATIVE FRAMEWORK FOR EQUALITY"
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| Dr. Leonard Harris, William Patterson |
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| Dr. Howard McGary, Rutgers |
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| Dr. Jorge Garcia, Boston College |
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| Some of our members: (Standing) Danjumma Modupe, Leo Downes, Paul Hardy, David Woods, Judith Green, and Howard McGary. (Seated) David E. McClean, Bill Lawson and Frank Kirkland. Photo, courtesy of Al Prettyman.
A Sample of Members' Work |
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| Cornel West, Author of Race Matters; The American Evasion of Philosophy and Other Works was one of the Society's Founding Members. Click Image for Video, "The Heart of Cornel West" |
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| Prof. Lucius Outlaw of Vanderbilt University, author of On Race and Philosophy, broke ground with his work in Africana Philosophy |
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| Member Greg Moses's Revolution of Conscience explores King's philosophical thought in fresh ways. |
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| Edited by SSAP Member Bill Lawson, and Don Koch, with contributions by Al Prettyman, Judith Green and David McClean |
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| In Race and Social Justice, Dr. Howard McGary, long-time SSAP member, takes on, with deft moral analysis, such issues as affirmative action and reparations in this groundbreaking work. |
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| Professors Frank Kirkland and Bill Lawson edit a collection of essays that probe more deeply into the philosophical temperament of one of the greatest civil and human rights leaders in American history. |
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| Anna Stubblefield - Ethics Along the Color Line |
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| David E. McClean (Former SSAP President) |
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| David's Recent and Related Writing, and Works in Progress
"The Theological Uses of Rortian Ironism"
in The Journal of Speculative Philosophy (Forthcoming in 2008)
Identity Creep: The Ethics of Identity and the Obligation of Recognition (Forthcoming in 2008, in the four volume anthology, Diversity in Mind and Action (ed. Jean Lau Chin)
Should We Conserve the Notion of Race?
in the anthology, Pragmatism and the Problem of Race (Indiana University Press, 2004)
Review of In the Company of Black Men - The African Influence on African American Culture in New York City, by Craig Steven Wilder
in Philosophia Africana (March 2003)
Review of The Ethics of Identity, by Kwame Anthony Appiah
in Philosophia Africana (August 2006))
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| In Deep Democracy, Judith Green argues for a much more comprehensive notion of democratic practice, and for a new transformative philosophy that entails experimental approaches to the problems of economic and social injustice. |
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| Judith Green (Fordham University) |
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| Philosophia Africana is one of the leading peer-reviewed journals helping to shape and articulate africana philosophy. Members of SSAP serve on its editorial board. |
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