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Philosophy of Race, Past and Present
The fourth episode of Dialogos, a Harker Philosophy Club Podcast. Officers Quentin Clark, Sophia Gottfried, and Akshay Manglik discuss how philosophies of race have evolved since the founding of the US. They cover debates between black intellectuals, abolitionism vs. reformism, modern philosophies of race, and more in this episode of the Dialogos podcast. Produced by Akshay Manglik.
Full synopsis of topics discussed (w/ timestamps):
-racism in Western philosophy (0:30)
-antebellum abolitionism (3:09)
-Washington-DuBois debates (6:48)
-phenomenology of Blackness (12:08)
-MLK-Malcolm X debates (13:35)
-present-day debates between abolition and reform (18:45)
-virtue signaling/optical allyship (26:53)
-modern leftist philosophies and their impacts on protests (29:24)
-reflection on past podcasts and race (40:38)
James Baldwin speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnh0pxOTvh8
Ta-Nehisi Coates Letter to His Son: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/07/tanehisi-coates-between-the-world-and-me/397619/
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