IF 0.2 4区哲学

Souls Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1080/10999949.2021.2003627

M. Presswood

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“The Blood of Innocent Children”: Race, Respectability, and “True” Victimhood in the 1985 MOVE Police Bombing 《无辜儿童之血》:1985年MOVE警察爆炸案中的种族、尊严和“真实”受害者身份

IF 0.2 4区哲学

Souls Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1080/10999949.2021.2003630

Melissa N. Stein

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To See the Earth before the End of the Antiblack World 看看反黑世界结束前的地球

IF 0.2 4区哲学

Souls Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1080/10999949.2021.2003622

J. Howard

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Political Economy and the Tradition of Radical Black Study 政治经济学与激进黑人研究传统

IF 0.2 4区哲学

Souls Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/10999949.2020.1804805

A. Rice

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Afrocentrism Revisited: Africa in the Philosophy of Black Nationalism 非洲中心主义重访:黑人民族主义哲学中的非洲

IF 0.2 4区哲学

Souls Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/10999949.2019.1711566

S. Balakrishnan

引用次数: 3

“A Greater Truth than Any Other Truth You Know”: A Conversation with Professor Sylvia Wynter on Origin Stories “一个比你知道的任何其他真相都更伟大的真相”:与西尔维娅·温特教授关于起源故事的对话

IF 0.2 4区哲学

Souls Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/10999949.2020.1811592

S. Wynter, Joshua Bennett, J. Givens

引用次数: 2

“A Moment of Protest Becomes a Curricular Object” “抗议时刻成为课程对象”

IF 0.2 4区哲学

Souls Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/10999949.2020.1822725

H. Spillers

引用次数: 1

Personal Reflections on the Road to Black Awakening in Capitalist America 资本主义美国黑人觉醒之路的个人思考

IF 0.2 4区哲学

Souls Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/10999949.2020.1822724

R. Allen

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Troubling Dignity, Seeking Truth: Black Feminist Vision and the Thought-World of Black Photography in the Nineteenth Century 困扰尊严，寻求真理:19世纪黑人女性主义视野与黑人摄影的思想世界

IF 0.2 4区哲学

Souls Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/10999949.2020.1804804

Jovonna Jones

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Whence Disinheritance Holds: On Ida B. Wells and America’s “Unwritten Law” 剥夺继承权从何而来:艾达·b·威尔斯与美国“不成文法”

IF 0.2 4区哲学

Souls Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/10999949.2019.1712128

Linette Park

引用次数: 3

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