Center for Race, Philosophy and Social Justice

The Center for Race, Philosophy, and Social Justice promotes normatively inflected social and political thought geared to thinking through the demands of racial justice in the United States in the aftermath of Jim Crow and the election of our nation’s first Black president.   Housed in IRAAS, the Center sponsors interdisciplinary initiatives that, while chiefly driven by the scholarship of philosophers and social and political theorists, regularly engages the broadest available range of empirical, social scientific and interpretive, historical-cultural inquiry.  CRPS builds on Manning Marable’s legacy by maintaining a focus on the contributions that African American Studies has made and will continue to make to the articulation of a racial justice agenda.   In 2015-2016, CRPS will sponsor a philosophy and race lecture series, and several workshops focusing on the history of Afro-Modern political thought.  Speakers will include Tommie Shelby, Desmond Jagmohan, Lawrence Blum, Christopher Lebron, Robin James, and Gayatri Spivak.

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