Free speech event organised by Edinburgh University rector will bring together academics and experts to discuss how to stop cancel culture

This workshop brings together scholars from different disciplines to explore the concept of dehumanization and its significance in social, political, and historical contexts. Through a series of talks...

ABSTRACT In The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood, Tommy J. Curry called for the creation of a new field, Black Male Studies, which would engage a genre study of Black male death and dying. A variety of scholars have answered this call, cultivating new research on...

A critical look at the history, prevalence, and politicization of domestic violence in the Black community.

To what extent should theoretical approaches to understanding the world offered up by the humanities sensitive to empirical evidence? And how might the humanities be different if its scholars took the demands of evidence more seriously? The emergence of Black Male Studies provides one lens through which to look at these questions. The following guest post has two parts. The first is written by Timothy Golden, a philosopher at Whitman College and former attorney. The second is by Tommy J. Curry, a philosopher at the University of Edinburgh. “Black men are dehumanized by a humanities-based academic lethargy that theorizes them to their detriment,” writes Dr. Golden, who explains how the law has begun to take the insights of Black Male Studies seriously, while at the hands of some of his colleagues he is “dehumanized by the humanities.” It needn’t be that way. As Dr. Curry writes, “Philosophers have much to contribute… by engaging in the messiness of the real world”—the kind of messiness that may not fit with certain neater theoretical pictures of the world. Such contributions may be towards a better understanding of humans and our relations with each other, but also to “criminal justice cases and the decision-making processes of judges and juries alike,” as he shows with a recent example in which “he became the first ever black philosopher to have their testimony pass the Daubert Standard, the strict criteria US courts use to determine whether evidence presented is of a rigorous, peer-reviewed and verifiable quality.” When Philosophy Enters the Criminal Court: Black Male Studies as Expert Testimony by Timothy Golden & Tommy J. Curry Part 1: Expert Testimony & Expert Dehumanization by Timothy Golden Rarely, if ever, are academic philosophers sources of expert testimony in criminal trials. Tommy J. Curry has changed that. The founder of the philosophical subfield of Black Male Studies (BMS), Curry posits that Black men are dehumanized by a humanities-based academic lethargy that theorizes them to their detriment. Consider being dehumanized by the humanities! Such theorizations, Curry argues, occlude the vulnerability and victimization of Black men, insofar as humanities-based academic theories portray them as embodiments of “patriarchal” oppression both within the Black community and beyond. I’ve experienced that dehumanization first-hand, as I relate.. The post When Philosophy Enters the Criminal Court: Black Male Studies as Expert Testimony (guest post) first appeared on Daily Nous.

ABSTRACT In the absence of an honest and rigorous research program to understand the conditions of Black males, negative stereotypes and pernicious caricatures persist. The relatively new field of Black Male Studies introduces a lens through which to evaluate past and present characterizations...

ABSTRACT This article introduces Black Male Studies as a distinct empirically grounded field of inquiry developed to explain the systematic dehumanization, sexualization, and lethal targeting of Black men and boys within Western societies and racialized males more generally. Departing from...

ABSTRACT Black Male Studies has emerged as a new field of study that aims to correct contemporary theories of Black men and boys and provide a new conceptual grounding for future research into the sexual vulnerability of racialized male populations within Western patriarchal societies. This...

Despite resistance from states who had role in chattel slavery, many feel this is an idea whose time has come

Idris Robinson, a tenure-track assistant professor of philosophy at Texas State University, is suing several university officials for violating his constitutional rights after they told him he would h...

To what extent should theoretical approaches to understanding the world offered up by the humanities sensitive to empirical evidence? And how might the humanities be different if its scholars took the...

Many see populism with its focus on immigration and nationalism as not only politically dangerous but morally wrong. This reflects the universalist morality of the main Western moral frameworks. But c...

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Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Dr. Suilin Lavelle, reflects on recent PPLS activities aimed at building awareness of research from non-Western traditions.

To what extent should theoretical approaches to understanding the world offered up by the humanities sensitive to empirical evidence? And how might the humanities be different if its scholars took the...

A seminar presented by Prof. Tommy J. Curry (University of Edinburgh) as part of the SOAS History Seminar Series

Dr Tony Baugh completed his doctoral studies in January.

Prof. Tommy J Curry (University of Edinbrugh) wil speak on the ethnological and psycho-analytic demonization of the Black Male.