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Tommie Shelby

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Tommie Shelby is the Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University, where he has taught since 2000. He is the author of The Idea of Prison Abolition (2022), Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform (2016), and We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity (2005). He is the coeditor of To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. (2018) and of Hip Hop and Philosophy: Rhyme 2 Reason (2005). His writings take up questions of racial, economic, and criminal justice and examine the history of black political thought. His articles have appeared in such journals as Philosophy & Public Affairs, Ethics, Political Theory, Critical Inquiry, Du Bois Review, Journal of Social Philosophy, Social Theory and Practice, Critical Philosophy of Race, and Daedalus.
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