History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.