A Burgos
Biographic Data
| ID | 38305 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Burgos |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Burgos |
| SIGNATURE | BURGOS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bucknell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6793-4591 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Political Philosophy of the Young Lords Party in advance
This paper provides a philosophical interpretation of the New York Young Lords Party by asking, what are the load-bearing elements of their worldview that, through their causal efficacy, demand to be understood as central to the meaning of political phenomena according to the group? I take two paths to answer to the question. First, the agent of revolution, whose identity takes multiple forms as central commitments shift. Second, sites of contest…
Neither race nor ethnicity
The social identity affordance view
This article proposes that social identities are best understood as a kind of affordance, a “social identity affordance.” Social identity affordances are possibilities for action and interaction between persons, within a social niche, based on perceived and self‐perceived social group identification. First, the view presented captures and articulates the basic structure of social identities. Second, it explains the multifaceted interplay of such …
Antiracism and Black Self-Defense in the Face of (Juridical) Catastrophe
In this paper we analyze the relationship between antiracism and black self-defense. We draw a distinction between liberal and political black self-defense and argue that antiracism can at most sanction a juridical and individualistic notion of self-defense rather than a communal one. We argue that any and all theoretical conceptions of contestation, resistance, or revolution need to seriously grapple with the necessity of theorizing black self-d…
Legitimacy, resistance and the stakes of politics
This essay argues for the conceptual connection of legitimacy, resistance and ‘the people’ within liberal theories of public justification by making two primary claims: that legitimacy and resistance are mutually constitutive of one another and that together legitimacy and resistance are constitutive of an aspirational conception of ‘the people’. These claims revolve around the idea that the legitimacy of democratic regimes necessarily entails th…
Power in/and the University
The following conversation examines the role of the university in our present moment and examines the necessity of anti-colonial praxis in the academy. The dialogue takes as its starting point the long history of white, heteropatriarchal capitalist supremacy that has oriented the institutional production of knowledge and considers its present permutations in such practices as diversity initiatives in teaching and hiring. The discussants in turn r…
Internal Colonialism and Democracy
This essay examines the relationship between African American internal colonialism and democracy, highlighting the complexities of democracy that make it both susceptible to oppressive violence at home and abroad, as well as a potential resource for emancipation and equality. I understand “internal colonialism” here to encompass various terms used by African Americans beginning in the 1830s, including semi-colonialism, domestic colonialism, and a…
Jacques Rancière and Critical Theory
Overview of the special issue on Jacques Ranciere and Critical Theory, along with some additional thoughts
Wait until Next Year
Wait until next year” is a familiar expression heard in sporting circles as fans, journalists, athletes, and front-office personnel reflect on the state of their team(s), diagnose what went right and wrong, formulate a new plan of action, and forecast their teams’ hopes for the next season. Amy Bass has done sports history scholars a valuable service in noting important trends within the growing literature on sport being produced by journalists a…
Out of Left Field
The literature on black baseball has traditionally focused on the likes of Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, and James “Cool Papa” Bell, among other Negro league players, whose on-field excellence stood as the strongest argument against organized baseball’s color line. Less told is the story of black baseball’s entrepreneurs (the historian Neil Lanctot’s compelling Negro League Baseball [2004] is a notable exception). Rebecca T. Alpert’s Out of Left Fi…
Latino History
In her 2006 Organization of American Historians (oah) presidential address, Vicki Ruiz invoked José Martí's landmark 1891 essay “Nuestra América” in calling for a more comprehensive, transhemispheric vision of the U.S. past, one that understands “Latino history as United States history.” For more than four decades, scholars have written about U.S. Latina and Latino experiences, often under the rubric of Mexican American or Chicano, Puerto Rican, …
Latino History
In her 2006 Organization of American Historians (oah) presidential address, Vicki Ruiz invoked José Martí's landmark 1891 essay “Nuestra América” in calling for a more comprehensive, transhemispheric vision of the U.S. past, one that understands “Latino history as United States history.” For more than four decades, scholars have written about U.S. Latina and Latino experiences, often under the rubric of Mexican American or Chicano, Puerto Rican, …
Latino History
In her 2006 Organization of American Historians (oah) presidential address, Vicki Ruiz invoked José Martí's landmark 1891 essay “Nuestra América” in calling for a more comprehensive, transhemispheric vision of the U.S. past, one that understands “Latino history as United States history.” For more than four decades, scholars have written about U.S. Latina and Latino experiences, often under the rubric of Mexican American or Chicano, Puerto Rican, …
Out of Left Field
The literature on black baseball has traditionally focused on the likes of Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, and James “Cool Papa” Bell, among other Negro league players, whose on-field excellence stood as the strongest argument against organized baseball’s color line. Less told is the story of black baseball’s entrepreneurs (the historian Neil Lanctot’s compelling Negro League Baseball [2004] is a notable exception). Rebecca T. Alpert’s Out of Left Fi…
Wait until Next Year
Wait until next year” is a familiar expression heard in sporting circles as fans, journalists, athletes, and front-office personnel reflect on the state of their team(s), diagnose what went right and wrong, formulate a new plan of action, and forecast their teams’ hopes for the next season. Amy Bass has done sports history scholars a valuable service in noting important trends within the growing literature on sport being produced by journalists a…
Jacques Rancière and Critical Theory
Overview of the special issue on Jacques Ranciere and Critical Theory, along with some additional thoughts
Power in/and the University
The following conversation examines the role of the university in our present moment and examines the necessity of anti-colonial praxis in the academy. The dialogue takes as its starting point the long history of white, heteropatriarchal capitalist supremacy that has oriented the institutional production of knowledge and considers its present permutations in such practices as diversity initiatives in teaching and hiring. The discussants in turn r…
Internal Colonialism and Democracy
This essay examines the relationship between African American internal colonialism and democracy, highlighting the complexities of democracy that make it both susceptible to oppressive violence at home and abroad, as well as a potential resource for emancipation and equality. I understand “internal colonialism” here to encompass various terms used by African Americans beginning in the 1830s, including semi-colonialism, domestic colonialism, and a…
Neither race nor ethnicity
The social identity affordance view
This article proposes that social identities are best understood as a kind of affordance, a “social identity affordance.” Social identity affordances are possibilities for action and interaction between persons, within a social niche, based on perceived and self‐perceived social group identification. First, the view presented captures and articulates the basic structure of social identities. Second, it explains the multifaceted interplay of such …
Antiracism and Black Self-Defense in the Face of (Juridical) Catastrophe
In this paper we analyze the relationship between antiracism and black self-defense. We draw a distinction between liberal and political black self-defense and argue that antiracism can at most sanction a juridical and individualistic notion of self-defense rather than a communal one. We argue that any and all theoretical conceptions of contestation, resistance, or revolution need to seriously grapple with the necessity of theorizing black self-d…
Legitimacy, resistance and the stakes of politics
This essay argues for the conceptual connection of legitimacy, resistance and ‘the people’ within liberal theories of public justification by making two primary claims: that legitimacy and resistance are mutually constitutive of one another and that together legitimacy and resistance are constitutive of an aspirational conception of ‘the people’. These claims revolve around the idea that the legitimacy of democratic regimes necessarily entails th…
The Political Philosophy of the Young Lords Party in advance
This paper provides a philosophical interpretation of the New York Young Lords Party by asking, what are the load-bearing elements of their worldview that, through their causal efficacy, demand to be understood as central to the meaning of political phenomena according to the group? I take two paths to answer to the question. First, the agent of revolution, whose identity takes multiple forms as central commitments shift. Second, sites of contest…
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Race, History, and American Society (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works)