Decolonizing Intersectionality
Dear Critical Thinker,
Decolonizing the Intersection
Our Board Member Tommy J. Curry discusses decolonizing intersectionality in two wonderful conversations. We invite you to listen and learn.
Dr. Curry's book, The Man-Not, is on the Men's Health Top 10 must-read list.
Decolonizing Intersectionality with Dr. Tommy J. Curry
The Edinburgh Race Lectures: Decolonizing the Intersection – 12 August 2020
Tommy J. Curry joined the Philosophy Department at the University of Edinburgh in the Fall of 2019. His research interests are in Africana Philosophy and the Black Radical Tradition. His areas of specialization are: 19th century ethnology, Critical Race Theory, Social Political Theory, and Black Male Studies. He is the author of The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood (Temple University Press 2017), which won the 2018 American Book Award. He is the author of Another white Man’s Burden: Josiah Royce’s Quest for a Philosophy of Racial Empire (SUNY Press 2018), and has re-published the forgotten philosophical works of William Ferris as The Philosophical Treatise of William H. Ferris: Selected Readings from The African Abroad or, His Evolution in Western Civilization (Rowman & Littlefield 2016). He is also the editor of the first book series dedicated to the study of Black males entitled Black Male Studies: A Series Exploring the Paradoxes of Racially Subjugated Males on Temple University Press. Dr. Curry is currently co-editing (with Daw-nay Evans) the forthcoming anthology Contemporary African American Philosophy: Where Do We Go from Here on Bloomsbury Publishing (2019). His research has been recognized by Diverse as placing him among the Top 15 Emerging Scholars in the United States in 2018, and his public intellectual work earned him the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy’s Alain Locke Award in 2017. He is a past recipient of the USC Shoah Foundation and A.I. and Manet Schepps Foundation Teaching Fellowship (2017), and the past president of Philosophy Born of Struggle, one of the oldest Black philosophy organizations in the United States.
"When Yahya Abdul-Mateen II was growing up, he remembers his father was constantly reading. From newspapers and health books to the Bible and the Koran, his reading materials were among his most trusted sources of information about the world around him. Recently, the actor—who also played Dr. Manhattan in HBO's Watchmen—set out to acquire a reading list of his own. "I asked a friend of mine, one of my fraternity brothers from Berkeley who’s now a professor of African-American studies at Harvard, to give me a list of books that I should be reading right now," Abdul-Mateen writes."
Dr. Tommy Curry's book, The Man-Not, is included in Abdul-Mateen's list, which you can find here.