
January 13, 2017
3:30 pm
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5:00 pm
Mershon Center for International Security Studies
The Mershon Center for International Security Studies presents
Tommie Shelby
"Prisons of the Forgotten: King on Ghettos and Economic Justice"
Tommie Shelby received his B.A. from Florida A & M University (1990) and Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh (1998). Prior to coming to Harvard in 2000, he taught philosophy at Ohio State University (1996-2000). His main areas of research and teaching are Africana philosophy, social and political philosophy, philosophy of race, and social theory.
He is the author of We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity (Harvard, 2005) and co-editor (with Derrick Darby) of Hip Hop and Philosophy: Rhyme 2 Reason (Open Court, 2005).
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