Chike Jeffers
Associate Professor; Honours Advisor; Cross-Appointed with Law, Justice and Society; Cross-Appointed with Canadian Studies, and International Development Studies. Canada Research Chair (Tier 2), in Africana Philosophy
Email: chike.jeffers@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-3547
Mailing Address:
Room 3136, Marion McCain Building
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Research Topics:ĢAV
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- Africana Philosophy
- Philosophy of Race
- Social and Political Philosophy
- Ethics
Education
- Ph.D in Philosophy (2010) Northwestern University;Dissertation: The Black Gift:Cultural Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Africana Philosophy
- B.A. Honours in Philosophy (w/minor in Film Studies) (2004) York University
Selected Publications
Books:
What is Race? Four Philosophical Views, co-written with Joshua Glasgow, Sally Haslanger, and Quayshawn Spencer (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019)
Edited Books:
Listening to Ourselves: A Multilingual Anthology of African Philosophy (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2013).
Articles:
- "Anna Julia Cooper and the Black Gift Thesis," History of Philosophy Quarterly 33 (January 2016):79-97
- "The Ethics and Politics of Cultural Preservation," The Journal of Value Inquiry 49 (March 2015): 205-220
- “Appiah’s Cosmopolitanism,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy 51 (December 2013):488-510.
- "A Westian Vision of the Role of Black Philosophy," The Black Scholar 43 (Winter 2013):24-31.
- “Embodying Justice in Ancient Egypt: The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant as a Classic of Political Philosophy,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 21 (May 2013): 421-442.
- “The Cultural Theory of Race: Yet Another Look at Du Bois’s “The Conservation of Races,”” Ethics 123 (April 2013): 403-426.
- “Do We Need African Canadian Philosophy?” Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review/Revue canadienne de philosophie 51 (December 2012): 643-666.
Book Chapters:
- "Rights, Race, and the Beginnings of Modern Africana Philosophy," in Paul C. Taylor, Linda Martin Alcoff and Luvell Anderson (eds.), The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Race (New York: Routledge, 2017) 127-139.
- "Du Bois, Appiah, and Outlaw on Racial Identity," in Naomi Zack (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Race, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), 204-213.
- W.E.B. Du Bois' "Whither Now and Why," in Eric Schliesser (ed.), Ten Neglected Classics of Philosophy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017) 222-254
- “Should Black Kids Avoid Wearing Hoodies?” in George Yancy and Janine Jones (eds.), Pursuing Trayvon Martin: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Manifestations of Racial Dynamics (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2012), 129-140.