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    Tommie Shelby is an American philosopher who has served as the Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy at Harvard University since 2013. He received his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh and has authored several books on Africana philosophy, social and political philosophy, and the philosophy of social science. Some of his most notable works include We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity and Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform.

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    Tommie Shelby is an American philosopher who has served as the Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy at Harvard University since 2013. He received his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh and has authored several books on Africana philosophy, social and political philosophy, and the philosophy of social science. Some of his most notable works include We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity and Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform.

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    Tommie Shelby

    Tommie Shelby (born 1967) is an American philosopher. Since


    Tommie Shelby
    2013, he has served as the Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African
    and African American Studies and of Philosophy at Harvard
    University, where he is the current chair of the Department of
    African and African American Studies. He is particularly known
    for his work in Africana philosophy, social and political
    philosophy, social theory (especially Marxist theory), and the
    philosophy of social science.

    Education and career


    Shelby was the eldest of six children.[1] He was a self-described
    "jock" in high school, competing in basketball and track.[1] He
    earned his B.A. in philosophy from Florida A&M University in
    1990 and his Ph.D. in philosophy with a certificate in cultural
    Shelby at the Edmond J. Safra
    studies from the University of Pittsburgh in 1998.[1][2] His
    dissertation, Marxism and the Critique of Moral Ideology, was Center for Ethics in 2020
    directed by David Gauthier. Born 1967 (age 55–56)
    Nationality American
    Before moving to Harvard University as an assistant professor in
    2000, he was an assistant professor of philosophy at Ohio State Alma mater University of
    University from 1998 to 2000.[1][3] He was the John L. Loeb Pittsburgh
    Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard from 2004 to
    Era 21st-century
    2007. Shelby is the second black scholar to be tenured in the
    philosophy department at Harvard. The first was Kwame Anthony philosophy
    Appiah, now a professor at New York University. Region Western philosophy
    School Africana philosophy
    Shelby served as an editor of Transition Magazine and of the Du
    Bois Review. In 2015, he was elected to the Pulitzer Prize Board.[4] Institutions Harvard University
    He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Ohio State University
    2019.[5]
    Website tommieshelby.com (h
    ttp://tommieshelby.co
    Research areas and publications m)

    Shelby is the author of We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity (Harvard
    University Press, 2005).[2] The book discusses the history of black political thought from Martin Delany to
    Malcolm X and extrapolates a new theory for black political solidarity consistent with liberal values of
    individual liberty, social equality, and cultural tolerance. Orlando Patterson described the book as
    "contest[ing] the movement's central claims at a level of sociophilosophical sophistication that one rarely
    encounters."[6] Bill Lawson, in his review of Shelby's book in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews,
    described it as a "provocative and insightful book." He continued, "Professor Shelby has done a great
    service to both philosophical and historical academic studies... What makes this book worth reading beyond
    the scholarship and its scholarly insights is Professor Shelby's attempt to move Black Nationalism into the
    post-civil rights era."[7]
    Shelby is also the co-editor of Hip-Hop and Philosophy: Rhyme 2 Reason with Derrick Darby.[1][2] In his
    review of the book, Tommy J. Curry said that it is "...a great work that inhabits the tension between the
    sterile thought of the academy and the rich lives of many young urban Americans."[8] Shelby also co-edited
    Transition 99 with Henry Louis Gates Jr., K. Anthony Appiah and F. Abiola Irele, and is the author of the
    entry on Black Nationalism in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online.

    His second monograph, Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform, was published by the Belknap Press
    of Harvard University Press in 2016.[9][10] His third book, The Idea of Prison Abolition, was published by
    Princeton University Press in 2022.[11]

    Shelby is the son-in-law of Harvard philosopher Thomas Scanlon.[12]

    See also
    Africana philosophy
    African American philosophers

    References
    1. Phillip, Abby D. (2008-11-19). "Living to Learn" (https://web.archive.org/web/2018030403194
    4/http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2008/11/19/living-to-learn-harvards-african-and/). The
    Harvard Crimson. Archived from the original (http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2008/11/19/li
    ving-to-learn-harvards-african-and/) on 2018-03-04.
    2. "Tommie Shelby" (https://web.archive.org/web/20180304033242/https://philosophy.fas.harva
    rd.edu/people/tommie-shelby). Harvard University Department of Philosophy. Archived from
    the original (https://philosophy.fas.harvard.edu/people/tommie-shelby) on 2018-03-04.
    3. CV in pdf format (http://www.tommieshelby.com/cv.html), Tommie Shelby website.
    4. "Neil Brown of Tampa Bay Times and Tommie Shelby of Harvard University are elected to
    Pulitzer Prize Board" (http://www.pulitzer.org/news/neil-brown-tampa-bay-times-and-tommie-
    shelby-harvard-university-are-elected-pulitzer-prize-board), The Pulitzer Prizes, October 29,
    2015.
    5. "New 2019 Academy Members Announced" (https://www.amacad.org/news/2019-members-
    announcement).
    6. Patterson, Orlando (January 8, 2006). "Being and Blackness". New York Times.
    7. Lawson, Bill (June 4, 2006). "We Who Are Dark (Review)". Notre Dame Philosophical
    Reviews.
    8. Curry, Tommy J. (2006). "Review of Hip Hop and Philosophy: Rhyme 2 Reason". Kinesis. 33
    (2).
    9. Ryerson, James (2016-11-18). "Race in America After the Great Migration" (https://www.nyti
    mes.com/2016/11/20/books/review/race-in-america-after-the-great-migration.html). The New
    York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 (https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0362-4331). Retrieved
    2018-03-04.
    10. Semuels, Alana (2016-11-22). "Rethinking America's 'Dark Ghettos' " (https://www.theatlanti
    c.com/business/archive/2016/11/rethinking-americas-dark-ghettos/508400/). The Atlantic.
    Retrieved 2018-03-04.
    11. The Idea of Prison Abolition (https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691229751/th
    e-idea-of-prison-abolition). 2022-11-15. ISBN 978-0-691-22975-1.
    12. Waslh, Colleen (2008-11-06). "Looking at race, racism through a philosophical lens" (https://
    web.archive.org/web/20180304033649/https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2008/11/looki
    ng-at-race-racism-through-a-philosophical-lens/). Harvard Gazette. Archived from the original
    (https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2008/11/looking-at-race-racism-through-a-philosophi
    cal-lens/) on 2018-03-04.

    External links
    Faculty page at Harvard.edu (http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~phildept/shelby.html)
    We Who Are Dark on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/0674019369)
    'Living to Learn', (http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=525448#)The Harvard
    Crimson profiles Professor Shelby, November 19, 2008

    Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tommie_Shelby&oldid=1133356435"

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