History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China

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**History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China**

Peter Adamson teams up with Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers, and Karyn Lai to represent the philosophical traditions of ancient India, Africa and the African diaspora, and classical China. Website: www.historyofphilosophy.net.

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HAP 114 - Teacher Taught Me - Julius Nyerere Dec 25, 2022

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The first leader of independent Tanzania grounds his socialist ideas in traditional African values.

HAP 113 - A Fighting God - Black Theology Dec 11, 2022

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After Albert Cleage and James Cone propose a liberatory interpretation of Christianity, William R. Jones wonders whether God is a white racist. We also follow Black Theology among “Womanist” authors and in South Africa.

HAP 112 - Poems That Kill - the Black Arts Movement Nov 27, 2022

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African American literature of the late 1960s reflects the Black Power movement, in the works of such authors as Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, Haki Madhubuti, Larry Neal, and Sonia Sanchez.

HAP 111 - A Kwanzaa Story - Maulana Karenga Nov 13, 2022

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The controversial career of the Pan-Africanist philosopher Maulana Karenga, inventor of the holiday Kwanzaa.

HAP 110 - Politics with Bloodshed - the Black Panthers Oct 30, 2022

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The philosophical underpinnings of a “vanguard of revolution” led by Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale, and Eldridge Cleaver: the Black Panther Party.

HAP 109 - Say It Loud - Black Power Oct 16, 2022

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How the controversial slogan “black power,” used by activists like Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown, relates to ideas of militancy, separatism, and the power of language.

HAP 108 - Or Does It Explode? - Lorraine Hansberry Oct 02, 2022

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The underestimated radicalism of Lorraine Hansberry, author of the famous play "A Raisin in the Sun".

HAP 107 - Lewis Gordon on Frantz Fanon Sep 18, 2022

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We're joined by a leading Fanon expert to talk about a range of themes in his work: Negritude, psychiatry, and violence.

HAP 106 - Combat Literature - Franz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth Sep 04, 2022

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Fanon’s incendiary final work explores the violent process of decolonization.

HAP 105 - Meeting the Gaze - Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin White Masks Jul 24, 2022

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Frantz Fanon combines existentialist philosophy and psychiatry to diagnose the condition of the colonialized target of racism.

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