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The Unflinching Philosophy of Audre Lorde.... coming in 2027 Postdoc at Free University Berlin www.calebward.xyz Life is impermanent and so are reposts.
The Unflinching Philosophy of Audre Lorde.... coming in 2027 Postdoc at Free University Berlin www.calebward.xyz Life is impermanent and so are reposts.
![Week 1 Introduction and syllabus discussion
In-class reading and discussion: Mari Evans, “Vive Noir!” (poem, 1970)
Unit One—What are you pretending not to know today, Sweetheart?
Week 2 Theme: Academic philosophy—Part of the problem or part of the solution?
Primary Readings:
[1] Toni Cade Bambara, “The Education of a Storyteller” (1996) in Deep Sightings and Rescue Missions, 246–255. **Note: Read this text early in the week and talk about it to at least one person you know from outside the seminar.**
[2] Kristie Dotson, “How Is This Paper Philosophy?” Comparative Philosophy 3, no. 1 (2012): 3–29
Secondary Reading: Axelle Karera, “Black Feminist Philosophy and the Politics of Refusal” (2021), in The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Philosophy, ed. Hall and Ásta, 109–119; V. Denise James, “A Black Feminist Philosopher: Is That Possible?” Hypatia 29, no. 1 (2014): 189–195
Week 3 Theme: Freedom and resistance
Primary Readings:
[1] Angela Davis, “Lectures on Liberation” (1969), 107–134
[2] Angela Davis, “Reflections on the Black Woman’s Role in the Community of Slaves,” The Black Scholar 12, no. 6 (1971): 2–15
Secondary Reading: Edward O’Byrn, “Reading Angela Davis Beyond the Critique of Sartre,” Sartre Studies International 28, no. 2 (2022): 17–41
Week 4 Theme: Knowledge and epistemic oppression
Primary Readings:
[1] Patricia Hill Collins, from Black Feminist Thought, revised edition (1990/2000): “Black Feminist Epistemology,” 251–271
[2] Kristie Dotson, “Inheriting Patricia Hill Collins’s Black Feminist Epistemology,” Ethnic and Racial Studies 38, no. 13 (2015): 2322–2328
Secondary Reading: Kristie Dotson, “Conceptualizing Epistemic Oppression,” Social Epistemology (2014): 115–138](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xjvlqohvsl4nfi5d2wz3banx/bafkreihe4g24jryp542yjfmjbfkxktuzfafmtkxswfvelrzfjcsm2nf5te)
