We Who Are Dark

The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity

Tommie Shelby

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ISBN 9780674025714

Publication Date: 09/15/2007

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336 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

Belknap Press

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Tommie Shelby is Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy at Harvard University. In addition to Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform, he is the author of We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity and coeditor, with Brandon M. Terry, of To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

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