ETHICS EVENTS: Tommie Shelby, "Prisons of the Forgotten: King on Ghettos and Economic Justice"

Tommie Shelby
January 13, 2017
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Mershon Center for International Security Studies

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2017-01-13 15:30:00 2017-01-13 17:00:00 ETHICS EVENTS: Tommie Shelby, "Prisons of the Forgotten: King on Ghettos and Economic Justice" 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). For more information and to register for this event, please visit the Mershon Center's event page. Mershon Center for International Security Studies America/New_York public

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).
 
For more information and to register for this event, please visit the Mershon Center's event page.