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Lewis R. Gordon is Director of the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought. He also is Director of the Center for Afro-Jewish Studies and a Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy at Temple University and President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association. Professor Gordon has written many works in race theory, Africana philosophy, postcolonial phenomenology, philosophy of existence, social and political philosophy, film and literature, philosophy of education, philosophy of human sciences, and a variety of topics in the public interest. Before joining Temple, he taught at Brown University for eight years, during which the program in Afro-American Studies became the Department of Africana Studies under his leadership as chairperson. He also taught at Purdue University and Yale University, and he is Ongoing Visiting Professor of Government and Philosophy at the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica. Professor Gordon has presented lectures internationally, and has been a recipient of numerous awards and distinguished fellowships. |
Books in print by Professor Gordon
1 Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism. Amherst, NY: Humanity/Prometheus Books, 1999. Originally Published in Atlantic Highlands, NJ, by Humanities International Press, January 1995. xiv+222 pp.
2 Fanon and the Crisis of European Man: An Essay on Philosophy and the Human Sciences. New York: Routledge, September 1995. xiii+137 pp.
3 Fanon: A Critical Reader, ed. with an introduction and translations by Lewis R. Gordon, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, and Renée T. White, and a foreword by Leonard Harris and Carolyn Johnson, and an afterword by Joy Ann James. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, July 1996. xxi +345 pp.
4 Existence in Black: An Anthology of Black Existential Philosophy, ed. with an introduction by Lewis R. Gordon. New York: Routledge, January 1997. xviii+328 pp.
5 Her Majesty’s Other Children: Sketches of Racism from a Neocolonial Age, with a foreword by Renée T. White. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, September 1997. xvii+282 pp. Winner of the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award for the Study of Human Rights in North America.
6 Existentia Africana: Understanding Africana Existential Thought. New York: Routledge, April 2000. xii + 228 pp.
7 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.
8 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.
9 Disciplinary Decadence: Living Thought in Trying Times. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2006. x + 173 pp. Serbian trans. (at press)—Belgrade: Hedone Publishers.
10 An Introduction to Africana Philosophy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Articles by Lewis Gordon
1 “Fanon dans la pensée politique africaine récente,” Penser aujourd'hui à partir de Frantz Fanon, Actes du colloque Fanon, Éditions en ligne, CSPRP - Université Paris, 7, Février 2008.
2 "George Lamming the Existentialist," The
Center for Africana Studies Working Papers Series,
Johns Hopkins University, WP006, 2007.
3 "The Problem of Maturity in Hip Hop," The Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 27:367-389, 2005.
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"Through the Zone of Nonbeing: A Reading of Black Skin, White Masks in Celebration of Fanon's Eightieth Birthday,"
CLR James Journal, Volume 11, Number 1, Summer 2005.
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5 Foreward to In Every Tongue: The Racial & Ethnic Diversity of the Jewish People. San Francisco: Institute for Jewish & Community Research, 2005.
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Book Chapters
1 "Problematic People and Epistemic Decolonization: Toward the Postcolonial in Africana Political Thought", in
Postcolonialism and Political Theory, ed. with an intro. by Nalini Persram. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, forthcoming.
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2 “Sartre and Black Existentialism", in Race after Sartre, ed. by Jonathan Judaken. Albany, NY: State University of New York
Press, forthcoming.
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Forthcoming work
1 On the Afro-Jewish Question. Forthcoming, 2008.
Interviews with Professor Gordon
A Philosophical Account of Africana Studies: An Interview with Lewis Gordon, by Linda Martin Alcoff
Entries on Professor Gordon
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, on Lewis Gordon
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