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We Who Are Dark

The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity

Tommie Shelby

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ISBN 9780674025714

Publication Date: 09/15/2007

336 pages

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

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Tommie Shelby is Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy at Harvard University.

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At The Point, read an interview with Tommie Shelby about considering Martin Luther King, Jr., “in the way we would thinkers like Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, John Dewey—as interested in fundamental moral principles, what aspects of society deserve our allegiance and which do not”
In the Boston Globe, read Professor Shelby’s call to honor MLK’s legacy by eradicating economic inequality
In the Harvard Gazette, read Shelby’s reflections on Dr. King’s life, death, and legacy for the nation at the time of his assassination fifty years ago—and now
At ABC Religion & Ethics, read Shelby’s comparison of Dr. King’s and President Barack Obama’s approaches to racial justice
Listen to a conversation with Shelby about his work on race and justice on the University of Pittsburgh Humanities Center podcast, Being Human
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