[Salon] Tommy Curry: How anti-Black racism is weakening our democracies

When
02/02/2024
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
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Full Circle House, 89 Ch. de Vleurgat, 1050 Ixelles
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How anti-Black racism is weakening our democracies

A salon with Tommy Curry

Ideas / Fri 2nd Feb / 6.30 - 8:30 pm

Doors open at 6.30pm.
Speaker will start at 7pm.

Philosophy professor Tommy Curry argues that anti-black racism and xenophobia are on the rise in post-colonial societies and questions what it means for democratic modern societies.

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ABOUT

Tommy J. Curry is an African American scholar, author and professor of philosophy. As of 2019 , he holds a Personal Chair in Africana philosophy and Black male studies at the University of Edinburgh. In 2018, he won an American Book Award for The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood.

GOOD READS

The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood (2017), Another white Man’s Burden: Josiah Royce’s Quest for a Philosophy of Racial Empire (2018), William H. Ferris: Selected Readings from The African Abroad or, His Evolution in Western Civilization ((2016).