Fear of Black Consciousness / Lewis Gordon

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🗓️ 31 January 2023

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Dr. Lewis Gordon, department head and professor of philosophy at the University of Connecticut, discusses his most recent book titled, Fear of Black Consciousness. This episode also features this week in Rotten History and new responses to the Question from Hell! Lewis Gordon is a philosopher at the University of Connecticut who works in the areas of Africana philosophy, existentialism, phenomenology, social and political theory, postcolonial thought, theories of race and racism, philosophies of liberation, aesthetics, philosophy of education, and philosophy of religion. He has written particularly extensively on Africana and black existentialism, postcolonial phenomenology, race and racism, and on the works and thought of W. E. B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon. Find Fear of Black Consciousness at: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374159023/fearofblackconsciousness Manufacturing dissent since 1996: https://thisishell.com/pages/support

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0:00.0	The Make it back! This is hell.
0:31.0	hell. This is hell and we.
0:35.0	The future ain't what it used to be.
0:40.0	This is hell and we once imagined a future where racism, misogyny, hatred in all its forms,
0:50.4	including fascism, were on the decline, we're on the run.
0:55.0	Instead we find ourselves 23 years into the 21st century and it seems like any and every
1:01.9	form of hate you can possibly imagine is on the upswing.
1:06.0	There's a huge uptick in fascism and hatred.
1:10.0	Some states are actually making it illegal to teach real actual US history, making it
1:15.6	a lot to teach unfounded myths, fairy tales about the United States, all in the name of
1:21.5	enforcing centuries of white superiority while grooming children
1:24.9	to consider people of color and especially black people inferior.
1:29.6	What these supremacist fear most is any challenge to their believed superiority and their view of
1:34.7	black racial inferiority. What they fear more than anything as today's guest
1:40.2	argues is black consciousness in a few minutes will speak with
1:44.3	philosopher political thinker musician he's a drummer Louis Gordon author of
1:49.5	fear of black consciousness Louis is a professor of philosophy and department head at the University of Connecticut.
1:55.5	He is editor of the American Philosophical Association blog series Black Issues in Philosophy,
2:02.0	as well as the book series Global Critical Caribbean
2:05.8	Thought and the Journal Philosophy and Global Affairs both he edited both with
2:12.0	Jane Anna Gordon.
2:14.0	He is also the founder of the Center for Afro-Jewish Studies,
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