History of Indian and Africana Philosophy

By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers

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Peter Adamson and Jonardon Ganeri (Professors of Philosophy at LMU Munich and NYU) present the philosophical traditions of India. Website: www.historyofphilosophy.net.

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HAP 76 - Michael Dawson on ...

05.16.2021

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.

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05.16.2021 HAP 76 - Michael Dawson on Garvey and Black Nationalism 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.
05.02.2021 HAP 75 - Now I Have a Rival - The Two Amy Garveys 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.
04.18.2021 HAP 74 - Black Star - Marcus Garvey Marcus Garvey leads a powerful movement, inspires racial pride, and feuds with other thinkers like Du Bois.
04.04.2021 HAP 73 - Vanessa Wills on Africana Marxism Vanessa Wills speaks to us about Marx and his Africana legacy, with a special focus on black women Marxists.
03.21.2021 HAP 72 - In A Class of Their Own - Early African American Socialism Around the time of World War One, Hubert Harrison, A. Philip Randolph, and other black socialists argue that racial oppression is caused by capitalism.
03.07.2021 HAP 71 - In Blyden’s Wake - West African Intellectuals of the Early Twentieth Century West African intellectuals like J.E. Casely-Hayford and Mojola Agbebi build upon Edward Blyden’s ideas at the dawn of the twentieth century.
02.21.2021 HAP 70 - Tommy Curry on the Early 20th Century We chat with Tommy Curry about African-American thought between the turn of the century and the Harlem Renaissance.
02.07.2021 HAP 69 - The Best We Have - The American Negro Academy The ANA unites leading African American scholars of the early 20th century, including W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Laurence Dunbar, William Ferris, Archibald Grimké, and Kelly Miller.
01.24.2021 HAP 68 - The Problem of the Color Line - Introducing the Twentieth Century By exploring the work and activities of W.E.B. Du Bois around the turn of the twentieth century, we introduce some of the themes of our coverage of that century.
01.10.2021 HAP 67 - Chike Jeffers on Slavery and Diasporic Philosophy Co-host Chike joins Peter to look back at series 2 and ahead to series 3.
12.27.2020 HAP 66 - Lifting the Veil - Introducing W.E.B. Du Bois W.E.B. Du Bois emerges as a historian, sociologist, and innovative philosophical thinker in the 1890s, and introduces his famous idea of "double consciousness."
12.13.2020 HAP 65 - Separate Fingers, One Hand - Booker T. Washington Was Booker T. Washington’s “accomodationist” approach to race relations a failure to stand up to injustice or a cunning strategy for incremental change?
11.29.2020 HAP 64 - God is a Negro - Henry McNeal Turner A late 19th-century churchman tries to explain how slavery fit into God’s plan, and decide whether the future for African-Americans lies in Africa or America.
11.15.2020 HAP 63 - Brittney Cooper on Black Women Activists Brittney Cooper on activists connected to the National Association of Colored Women, including Fannie Barrier Williams, Mary Church Terrell, and Ida B. Wells.
11.01.2020 HAP 62 - American Barbarism - Ida B. Wells Ida B. Wells, her tireless crusade against lynching, and her analysis of the underlying purpose of racial violence.
10.18.2020 HAP 61 - When and Where I Enter - Anna Julia Cooper Anna Julia Cooper’s "A Voice from the South", an unprecedented contribution to black feminist theory.
10.04.2020 HAP 60 - Though Late, It Is Liberty- Abolitionism in Brazil Abolitionists Luiz Gama and Joaquim Nabuco, and the great novelist Machado de Assis, react to the injustices of slaveholding in Brazil.
09.20.2020 HAP 59 - Frowning at Froudacious Fabrications - J.J. Thomas and F.A. Durham John Jacob Thomas argues for self-government in the English colonies of the Caribbean but his fellow Trinidadian Frederick Alexander Durham recommends repatriation to Africa instead.
09.06.2020 HAP 58 - A Common Circle - Anténor Firmin Haitian anthropologist Anténor Firmin debunks racist pseudo-science and argues that inequalities among humans are caused by social, not biological, factors.
07.19.2020 HAP 57 - Race First, Then Party - T. Thomas Fortune T. Thomas Fortune uses newspaper editorials to put forth a theory of civil rights and set out a plan of political action for protecting them.
07.05.2020 HAP 56 - African Personality - Edward Blyden Edward Blyden gains appreciation for Islam in West Africa and gradually moves from political nationalism to cultural nationalism.
06.21.2020 HAP 55 - Planting the Seeds - James Africanus Beale Horton Africanus Horton looks toward a future of self-government for West Africa beyond slavery and colonialism.
06.07.2020 HAP 54 - Wilson Moses on the Roots of Black Nationalism Wilson Moses speaks to us about his research into early black notionalism, as represented by Crummell, Douglass, and others.
05.24.2020 HAP 53 - Pilgrim’s Progress - Alexander Crummell Alexander Crummell moves from pan-Africanism to reform of African American culture, identifying progressive “civilization” as a means of liberation.
05.10.2020 HAP 52 - Great White North - Emigration to Canada Mary Ann Shadd and Samuel Ringgold Ward reflect on what Canada can offer African Americans, differing on the problem of racism.
04.26.2020 HAP 51 - I Read Men and Nations - Sojourner Truth and Frances Harper The moral crusades of Sojourner Truth and Frances Harper, activists against racial and gender oppression.
04.12.2020 HAP 50 - Nation Within a Nation - Martin Delany He is called a “father of black nationalism,” but Martin Delany also promoted integration in American society. Can the apparent tension be resolved?
03.29.2020 HAP 49 - Let Your Motto Be Resistance - Henry Highland Garnet Henry Highland Garnet encourages, or actually demands, that enslaved Americans throw off their chains and debates Douglass over how best to resist slavery.
03.15.2020 HAP 48 - Happy Holidays - Two Speeches by Frederick Douglass In two speeches marking holidays, Frederick Douglass champions the idea of world citizenship, the power of appeals to conscience to bring change, and the role of violence.
03.01.2020 HAP 47 - Written by Himself - the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass' journey from slave to leading figure of 19th century American thought.
02.16.2020 HAP 46 - Melvin Rogers on 19th Century Political Thought Melvin Rogers joins us to discuss Hosea Walker, Maria Stewart, and Hosea Easton.
02.02.2020 HAP 45 - Unnatural Causes - Hosea Easton’s Treatise Hosea Easton’s Treatise provides an overlooked but fascinating theory of race and racism.
01.19.2020 HAP 44 - Religion and Pure Principles - Maria W. Stewart Maria W. Stewart’s public addresses bring the concerns of African American women into the struggle against racial prejudice.
01.05.2020 HAP 43 - Kill or Be Killed - David Walker’s Appeal David Walker defends violent resistance and encourages self-improvement in his incendiary and influential Appeal.
12.22.2019 HAP 42 - James Sidbury on African Identity An interview with James Sidbury about the emergence of a self-conscious African identity in the diaspora.
12.08.2019 HAP 41 - Should I Stay or Should I Go? - The Colonization Controversy Questions of political autonomy and group identity in the emigration movement led by Paul Cuffe, Daniel Coker, John Russwurm and others.
11.24.2019 HAP 40 - American Africans - Early Black Institutions in the US Building black institutions in early American history, with Prince Hall and the Masons in Boston, and Richard Allen and the Methodists in Philadelphia.
11.10.2019 HAP 39 - Doris Garraway on the Haitian Revolution An interview with Doris Garraway on the background, intellectual basis, and legacy of the Haitian Revolution.
10.27.2019 HAP 38 - My Haitian Pen - Baron de Vastey The Baron de Vastey unveils the horror of colonialism as a system and defends the monarchy of King Christophe in the tense early years of Haiti’s independence.
10.13.2019 HAP 37 - Liberty, Equality, Humanity - The Haitian Revolution In an age of revolutions and revolutionary ideas, the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804 stands out as the most radical of them all.
09.29.2019 HAP 36 - Sons of Africa - Quobna Ottobah Cugoano and Olaudah Equiano Quobna Ottobah Cugoano and Olaudah Equiano advance the goals of the abolitionist movement through a groundbreaking political treatise and an influential autobiography.
09.15.2019 HAP 35 - Letters from the Heart - Ignatius Sancho and Benjamin Banneker Ignatius Sancho and Benjamin Banneker make their mark on the history of Africana thought through letters that reflect on the power of sentiment.
09.01.2019 HAP 34 - New England Patriot - Lemuel Haynes Preacher and Revolutionary War soldier Lemuel Haynes argues that the principles of the American Revolution demand the abolition of slavery.
07.21.2019 HAP 33 - Young, Gifted, and Black - Phillis Wheatley Phillis Wheatley astonishes colonial Americans with her exquisite and precocious poetry and reflects on the liberating power of the imagination.
07.07.2019 HAP 32 - Talking Book - Early Africana Writing in English 18th century black authors touch on philosophical themes in autobiographical narratives, poetry, and other literary genres.
06.23.2019 HAP 31 - Justin Smith on Amo and Race in Early Modern Philosophy Justin E.H. Smith joins us to discuss Anton Wilhelm Amo against the background of ideas about race in early modern philosophy, including Leibniz.
06.09.2019 HAP 30 - Dualist Personality - Anton Wilhelm Amo Anton Wilhelm Amo, brought to Germany from his native Ghana, defends a rigorous dualism of mind and body. Was this philosophy connected to his African origins?
05.26.2019 HAP 29 - Out of Africa - Slavery and the Diaspora An introduction to Africana philosophical thought as it emerged from the modern experience of slavery and colonization by Europeans.
05.12.2019 HAP 28 - Chike Jeffers on Precolonial African Philosophy Co-host Chike Jeffers and Peter chat about the themes and questions raised by the podcast so far.
04.28.2019 HAP 27 - Beyond the Reaction - The Continuing Relevance of Precolonial Traditions As the twentieth century draws to a close, the critique of ethnophilosophy gives way to approaches that continue to privilege the study of precolonial traditions.

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