PHIL 461 African-American Philosophy

This course is a study of various topics and major classical and contemporary figures in African American philosophical thought. Topics may include methodology in African American philosophy, Black aesthetics, philosophy of history, Black existentialism, Critical Race Theory, Black social and political thought and liberalism, philosophy and American chattel slavery, philosophy of law, and philosophy of religion. Major figures may include Maria Stewart, Ida B. Wells, Frederick Douglass, William H. Ferris, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Tommy J. Curry. Bill E. Lawson, Cornel West, Eddie Glaude, James H. Cone, Delores S. Williams, J. Kameron Carter, and George Yancy. 

Credits

4

Prerequisite

PHIL 204 (Essentials of Critical Reasoning) or PHIL 205 (Introduction to Philosophy)

Distribution

History and Philosophy