Black Existence in “Torto Arado” em Dez Dobraz

The collection of critical essays “Torto Arado” em Dez Dobras [“Torto Arado” in Ten Folds] will be released in 2023 in Brazil by Mercado de Letras. The anthology, organized by Francisco Neto Pereira Pinto, Rosemere Ferreira da Silva, Naiane Vieira dos Reis Silva, and Luiza Helena Oliveira da Silva, is divided into four sections entitled: […]

Dis-alienating Theory: On François Tosquelles, Frantz Fanon, and Political Theory by way of Camille Robcis’s Disalienation

Camille Robcis’s Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France is a lively and timely intervention into a variety of fields. The book takes its name from the concept of disalienation about which Frantz Fanon wrote his original medical dissertation that was rejected by his committee and later published as Black Skin, White Masks […]

Meditations on Africatown, Part 1: Sensing Reality

Editor’s Note: What follows is the first in an intended series of reflections by the author on experiences in the undertaking of a research program undertaken in Africatown, Alabama, as detailed below. My first trip to Africatown, Alabama, came in mid-March, 2022. This was my first time ever traveling to there; up to that moment, […]

Loving Commitment to Another: A Reflection by way of Howard Thurman

Do we, as human beings, need love? In The Creative Encounter, Howard Thurman affirms that we do. Thurman articulates this universal human need for love in terms of the development of personality. Thurman quotes the 1951 report A Healthy Personality for Every Child, which states that the “human being does not have a personality; he […]

Drucilla Cornell, in Memoriam

The following is a revised reflection of a post on Drucilla Cornell for the Frantz Fanon Foundation. It is posted here because of the importance of Drucilla Cornell in the history of Africana and Feminist Philosophy. I awoke one morning in mid-December 2022 to Thelonious Monk’s performance of Duke Ellington’s “I Didn’t Know About You.” […]