Chike Jeffers
Biographic Data
| ID | 486439 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chike Jeffers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chike |
| FAMILY NAME | Jeffers |
| SIGNATURE | JEFFERS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dalhousie University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Kymlicka and the Uniqueness of Black Folks
I respond to Kymlicka's SAP lecture by placing his discussion of black people in the lecture in the larger context of his wrestling over the course of his career with the uniqueness of black people, especially in North America
Thoughts on the structure of the history of Africana philosophy
This article seeks to comment insightfully on the way things hang together as we try to chart the history of Africana philosophy. It does so through reflections on the History of Africana Philosophy podcast, part of Peter Adamson's larger series, the History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps . The article is divided into three sections, corresponding to the three parts of the podcast. Important to the first section is a reply to recent criticism by …
Varieties of Black Individualism
What Counts as a Collective Gift? Culture and Value in Du Bois’ The Gift of Black Folk
In The Conservation of Races , Du Bois advocates that African Americans hold on to their distinctiveness as members of the black race because this enables them to participate in a cosmopolitan process of cultural exchange in which different races collectively advance human civilization by means of different contributions. Kwame Anthony Appiah and Tommie Shelby have criticized the position that Du Bois expresses in that essay as a problematic form…
Introduction to Charles Mills's “The Wretched of Middle‐Earth
An introduction to the posthumously published essay by Charles Mills, “The Wretched of Middle‐Earth: An Orkish Manifesto.”
What Is Race?
What is race? This is a question that has haunted human interaction and vexed scholars. In this book, four race theorists debate how best to answer it, applying philosophical tools and principles of social justice to cutting-edge findings from the biological and social sciences. Each of the authors presents a distinct view of race. Sally Haslanger argues that race is a sociopolitical reality. Chike Jeffers maintains that race is not only politica…
Black Multiculturalism
What Is Race
Du Bois, Appiah, and Outlaw on Racial Identity
W. E. B. Du Bois’s “The Conservation of Races” has greatly shaped contemporary philosophy of race, and one of the ways in which it has this effect is through the debate between Kwame Anthony Appiah and Lucius Outlaw. Du Bois, Appiah, and Outlaw all offer important perspectives on the value of racial identity. Appiah’s article helped stimulate debates about the nature and existence of race that remain central to philosophy of race today. The “Appi…
Lines of Descent
One of the most brilliant and interesting thinkers in our contemporary moment trying to better understand one of the most brilliant and interesting thinkers in all of modern history—that would be a dramatic but not unreasonable way to describe and evoke the significance of Lines of Descent, Kwame Anthony Appiah's latest book. It is about W. E. B. Du Bois and it is an effort to partially chart the development of this transformative figure's though…
Recent Work on Negritude
Review of recent works on the Negritude movement, with critical remarks and interventions
The Ethics and Politics of Cultural Preservation
Appiah's Cosmopolitanism
This article critically evaluates the cosmopolitan writings of K wame A nthony A ppiah, investigating especially the extent to which he challenges or fails to challenge the problem of E urocentrism in cosmopolitan discourse. I begin by discussing the way A ppiah's construction of his cosmopolitan vision attempts to address criticisms of cosmopolitanism as unable to accommodate the partiality that is an inescapable aspect of human relationships. I…
Do We Need African Canadian Philosophy
I ask whether we need African Canadian philosophy and attempt to provide an answer by considering a series of other questions that can be understood as alternative versions of the initial question. I ask (1) whether we need African Canadian philosophers; (2) whether we need philosophy focused on the African Canadian experience; (3) whether we already have African Canadian philosophy; (4) whether anybody of any background can do African Canadian p…
A Westian Vision of the Role of Black Philosophy
The role of black philosophy? I believe Bro. Cornel West pointed us down the right path. In 1977 he wrote: “Afro-American philosophy is the interpretation of AfroAmerican history, highlighting the cultural heritage and political struggles, which provides desirable norms that should regulate responses to particular challenges presently confronting Afro-Americans.”1 Where he spoke of “Afro-American philosophy,” I would speak of Africana philosophy,…
The Cultural Theory of Race
I argue that, despite all the attention philosophers have given W. E. B. Du Bois's essay "The Conservation of Races," they have missed some of his distinctions between ways of thinking about what race is. Recognizing this leads us to note an ambiguity in the claim that race is a social construction: the ambiguity between a focus on politics or culture. I claim that, although there are problems with Du Bois's cultural account of race, it contains …
Should Race Matter? Unusual Answers to the Usual Questions
David Boonin, author of A Defense of Abortion (2002) and The Problem of Punishment (2008) and coeditor of the textbook What's Wrong? Applied Ethicists and Their Critics (2004), is a prominent figure in contemporary applied ethics. His newest book offers us an interesting opportunity to reflect on how work in applied ethics fits into the philosophical study of race. Boonin tackles five issues—reparations for slavery, affirmative action, hate speec…
Kwasi Wiredu et la question du nationalisme culturel
The Cultural Theory of Race
I argue that, despite all the attention philosophers have given W. E. B. Du Bois's essay "The Conservation of Races," they have missed some of his distinctions between ways of thinking about what race is. Recognizing this leads us to note an ambiguity in the claim that race is a social construction: the ambiguity between a focus on politics or culture. I claim that, although there are problems with Du Bois's cultural account of race, it contains …
Do We Need African Canadian Philosophy
I ask whether we need African Canadian philosophy and attempt to provide an answer by considering a series of other questions that can be understood as alternative versions of the initial question. I ask (1) whether we need African Canadian philosophers; (2) whether we need philosophy focused on the African Canadian experience; (3) whether we already have African Canadian philosophy; (4) whether anybody of any background can do African Canadian p…
Varieties of Black Individualism
Kwasi Wiredu et la question du nationalisme culturel
Appiah's Cosmopolitanism
This article critically evaluates the cosmopolitan writings of K wame A nthony A ppiah, investigating especially the extent to which he challenges or fails to challenge the problem of E urocentrism in cosmopolitan discourse. I begin by discussing the way A ppiah's construction of his cosmopolitan vision attempts to address criticisms of cosmopolitanism as unable to accommodate the partiality that is an inescapable aspect of human relationships. I…
Do We Need African Canadian Philosophy
I ask whether we need African Canadian philosophy and attempt to provide an answer by considering a series of other questions that can be understood as alternative versions of the initial question. I ask (1) whether we need African Canadian philosophers; (2) whether we need philosophy focused on the African Canadian experience; (3) whether we already have African Canadian philosophy; (4) whether anybody of any background can do African Canadian p…
A Westian Vision of the Role of Black Philosophy
The role of black philosophy? I believe Bro. Cornel West pointed us down the right path. In 1977 he wrote: “Afro-American philosophy is the interpretation of AfroAmerican history, highlighting the cultural heritage and political struggles, which provides desirable norms that should regulate responses to particular challenges presently confronting Afro-Americans.”1 Where he spoke of “Afro-American philosophy,” I would speak of Africana philosophy,…
The Cultural Theory of Race
I argue that, despite all the attention philosophers have given W. E. B. Du Bois's essay "The Conservation of Races," they have missed some of his distinctions between ways of thinking about what race is. Recognizing this leads us to note an ambiguity in the claim that race is a social construction: the ambiguity between a focus on politics or culture. I claim that, although there are problems with Du Bois's cultural account of race, it contains …
Should Race Matter? Unusual Answers to the Usual Questions
David Boonin, author of A Defense of Abortion (2002) and The Problem of Punishment (2008) and coeditor of the textbook What's Wrong? Applied Ethicists and Their Critics (2004), is a prominent figure in contemporary applied ethics. His newest book offers us an interesting opportunity to reflect on how work in applied ethics fits into the philosophical study of race. Boonin tackles five issues—reparations for slavery, affirmative action, hate speec…
The Ethics and Politics of Cultural Preservation
Lines of Descent
One of the most brilliant and interesting thinkers in our contemporary moment trying to better understand one of the most brilliant and interesting thinkers in all of modern history—that would be a dramatic but not unreasonable way to describe and evoke the significance of Lines of Descent, Kwame Anthony Appiah's latest book. It is about W. E. B. Du Bois and it is an effort to partially chart the development of this transformative figure's though…
Recent Work on Negritude
Review of recent works on the Negritude movement, with critical remarks and interventions
Du Bois, Appiah, and Outlaw on Racial Identity
W. E. B. Du Bois’s “The Conservation of Races” has greatly shaped contemporary philosophy of race, and one of the ways in which it has this effect is through the debate between Kwame Anthony Appiah and Lucius Outlaw. Du Bois, Appiah, and Outlaw all offer important perspectives on the value of racial identity. Appiah’s article helped stimulate debates about the nature and existence of race that remain central to philosophy of race today. The “Appi…
What Is Race?
What is race? This is a question that has haunted human interaction and vexed scholars. In this book, four race theorists debate how best to answer it, applying philosophical tools and principles of social justice to cutting-edge findings from the biological and social sciences. Each of the authors presents a distinct view of race. Sally Haslanger argues that race is a sociopolitical reality. Chike Jeffers maintains that race is not only politica…
Black Multiculturalism
What Is Race
Introduction to Charles Mills's “The Wretched of Middle‐Earth
An introduction to the posthumously published essay by Charles Mills, “The Wretched of Middle‐Earth: An Orkish Manifesto.”
What Counts as a Collective Gift? Culture and Value in Du Bois’ The Gift of Black Folk
In The Conservation of Races , Du Bois advocates that African Americans hold on to their distinctiveness as members of the black race because this enables them to participate in a cosmopolitan process of cultural exchange in which different races collectively advance human civilization by means of different contributions. Kwame Anthony Appiah and Tommie Shelby have criticized the position that Du Bois expresses in that essay as a problematic form…
Thoughts on the structure of the history of Africana philosophy
This article seeks to comment insightfully on the way things hang together as we try to chart the history of Africana philosophy. It does so through reflections on the History of Africana Philosophy podcast, part of Peter Adamson's larger series, the History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps . The article is divided into three sections, corresponding to the three parts of the podcast. Important to the first section is a reply to recent criticism by …
Varieties of Black Individualism
Kymlicka and the Uniqueness of Black Folks
I respond to Kymlicka's SAP lecture by placing his discussion of black people in the lecture in the larger context of his wrestling over the course of his career with the uniqueness of black people, especially in North America
Sociology (12 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Race, History, and American Society (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (3 works)