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Hashtagging Solidarity

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson #BlackLivesMatter, Democracy, Human Rights, Philosophy, Politics, Public Philosophy, Race and Racism, RMWMTMBM Archive 0 Comments

The printing press, the telephone, the automobile, the airplane: each in their own way radically shrunk the world, diminished the power of mere distance to maintain our strangeness to one another.  Yet, arguably, no human innovation has served as a greater tool for transcending Nature’s most seemingly impregnable boundaries, space and time, than the World…

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What Public Philosophy LOOKS Like

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson #BlackLivesMatter, Memphis, Philosophy, Politics, Public Philosophy, Race and Racism, RMWMTMBM Archive 0 Comments

A pen (or keyboard) has, for millennia, been both the preferred and most essential tool of a philosopher, but I consider my camera to be a very close second as a 21stC philosopher.  Since completing the American Values Project in 2012, I’ve come to understand my camera as another weapon in the struggle against ignorance and,…

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The Ferguson Lesson: Another Way To “Take Up Arms”

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson #BlackLivesMatter, Codifying Civility and Collegiality, Democracy, Ferguson, Philosophy, Politics, Race and Racism, RMWMTMBM Archive, Weak Humanism 0 Comments

As someone who has spent the better part of her career researching, analyzing and teaching not only about the structure and nature of oppressive power regimes, but also better and worse ways to resist or transform such regimes, I’ve nevertheless been unable to settle in my own mind, to my own satisfaction, my position with…

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Ferguson Syllabus for Philosophers

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson #BlackLivesMatter, Codifying Civility and Collegiality, Ferguson, Open Source Pedagogy, Philosophy, Politics, Race and Racism, RMWMTMBM Archive, Teaching 0 Comments

Many of you have probably seen the excellent “Ferguson Syllabus” created by Sociologists for Justice, which has been circulated widely over the last several days and which provides a collection of research articles used to inform the arguments and positions represented in their Statement on Ferguson.  I strongly encourage you to keep circulating that document, and…

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American Apartheid

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson #BlackLivesMatter, Codifying Civility and Collegiality, Ferguson, Human Rights, Politics, Race and Racism, RMWMTMBM Archive 0 Comments

For they know they are not animals. And at the very moment when they discover their humanity, they begin to sharpen their weapons to secure its victory. –Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth America has always been and remains an apartheid state.  The latter part of that sad but increasingly undeniable fact was made apparent last night in…

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