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

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HAP 89 - Separate but Unequal - E. Franklin Frazier

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

HAP 88 - The Surreal Deal - Aimé and Suzanne Césaire

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

HAP 87 - Call It Intuition - Leopold Senghor

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 86 - French Connection - The Negritude Movement

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

HAP 82 - The Florida Project - Zora Neale Hurston

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

HAP 81 - Making History - Carter G. Woodson

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 80 - Scholarly Contributions - African American Professional Philosophers

Leonard Harris explains how Locke's value theory was the basis for his aesthetics and theories of democracy and race. 

HAP 79 - Leonard Harris on Alain Locke

The aesthetics of Alain Locke and its basis in his theory of value judgments.

HAP 78 - Freedom Through Art - Alain Locke

The artistic flowering of the 1920s known as the Harlem Renaissance raises important questions about identity and the purpose of art.

HAP 77 - A Race Capital - The Harlem Renaissance

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 76 - Michael Dawson on Garvey and Black Nationalism

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.

HAP 75 - Now I Have a Rival - The Two Amy Garveys

Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, and Chike Jeffers present the philosophical traditions of India, Africa, and the African Diaspora. Further reading and info at www.historyofphilosophy.net.

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