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  Jane Anna Gordon, Associate Director
 




Jane Anna Gordon teaches in the Department of Political Science at Temple University, where she also is Associate Director of the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought and the Center for Afro-Jewish Studies. She is the author of Why They Couldn’t Wait: A Critique of the Black-Jewish Conflict Over Community Control in Ocean-Hill Brownsville, 1967–1971 (Routledge, 2001), which was listed by The Gotham Gazette as one of the four best books recently published on Civil Rights, and editor of “Radical Philosophies of Education,” a special issue of Radical Philosophy Review. She also is co-editor of A Companion to African-American Studies (Blackwell’s, 2006) and Not Only the Master’s Tools (Paradigm Publishers, 2005). Her current work focuses on problems of legitimacy in democratic societies.
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Books in print by Professor Gordon

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Why They Couldn’t Wait: A Critique of the Black–Jewish Conflict over Community Control in Ocean Hill–Brownsville (1967–1971).  New York: Routledge Falmer, 2001. 192 pages.

2 Not Only the Master’s Tools: African-American Studies in Theory and Practice, edited with an introduction by Lewis R. Gordon and Jane Anna Gordon. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2006.  xiii+ 321 pp.

3 A Companion to African-American Studies, edited with an introduction by Lewis R. Gordon and Jane Anna Gordon.  Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, January 2006.  xxxv + 668 pp.

4 with Lewis R. Gordon, Of Divine Warning: Reading Disaster in the Modern Age.  Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2009.  X+176 pp. 

A Companion to African-American Studies was named NetLibrary eBook of the Month for February 2007! Click here to read more.



Articles by Professor Gordon1 “Special Symposium on Radical Education: Introduction,” Radical Philosophy Review 5, nos. 1–2 (2002–2003):  96–100.
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2 “Double Consciousness and the Problem of Legitimacy in Political Thought.”  In Not Only the Master’s Tools, pp. 205–225.3 “Challenges Posed to Social-Scientific Method by the Study of Race.”   In A Companion to African-American Studies, pp. 279–304.
Forthcoming Work1 “Post-continental Dimensions of Potentiated Double Consciousness,” Duke University Dossiers on Caribbean and Latin-American Thought, edited by Nelson Maldonado-Torres, forthcoming 2006.

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2 “The Gift of Double Consciousness:  Some Obstacles to Grasping the Contributions of the Colonized.”  In Posctolonialism and Political Theory, edited by Nalini Persram. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, forthcoming 2006, 32 ms pp.

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