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According to Wikipedia, Lewis Ricardo Gordon is an American philosopher at the University of Connecticut who works in the areas of Africana philosophy, existentialism, phenomenology, social and political theory, postcolonial thought, theories of race and racism, philosophies of liberation, aesthetics, philosophy of education, and philosophy of religion. He has written particularly extensively on Africana and black existentialism, postcolonial phenomenology, race and racism, and on the works and thought of W. E. B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon. His most recent book is titled: Fear of Black Consciousness.

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Published Papers

Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism (1995) (202)
Existentia Africana: Understanding Africana Existential Thought (2000) (189)
Fanon and the Crisis of European Man: An Essay on Philosophy and the Human Sciences (1995) (143)
An Introduction to Africana Philosophy (2008) (122)
What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought (2015) (107)
Disciplinary Decadence: Living Thought in Trying Times (2006) (102)
Her Majesty's Other Children: Sketches of Racism from a Neocolonial Age (1997) (102)
Existence in Black : An Anthology of Black Existential Philosophy (1996) (92)
Through the Zone of Nonbeing A Reading of Black Skin, White Masks in Celebration of Fanon's Eightieth Birthday (2005) (75)
Fanon: A Critical Reader (1996) (74)
Not Only the Master's Tools: African American Studies in Theory and Practice (2005) (54)
Shifting the geography of reason in an age of disciplinary decadence (2011) (50)
50 Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology (2019) (49)
What Fanon Said (2020) (40)
Disciplinary decadence and the decolonisation of knowledge (2014) (39)
Theory in Black: Teleological Suspensions in Philosophy of Culture (2010) (38)
Through the Hellish Zone of Nonbeing: Thinking through Fanon, Disaster, and the Damned of the Earth (2007) (37)
A companion to African-American studies (2005) (30)
Race, Theodicy, and the Normative Emancipatory Challenges of Blackness (2013) (25)
Of divine warning : reading disaster in the modern age (2009) (22)
Du Bois's Humanistic Philosophy of Human Sciences (2000) (22)
Critical ‘Mixed Race'? (1995) (21)
Existential dynamics of theorizing black invisibility (1997) (20)
Sartre and Fanon on Embodied Bad Faith (2010) (19)
The Problem of Maturity in Hip Hop (2005) (17)
Critical Reﬂections on Three Popular Tropes in the Study of Whiteness (2004) (14)
Sartrean Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism (1995) (14)
Fanon and Development: A Philosophical Look (2005) (14)
African-American Philosophy: Theory, Politics, and Pedagogy (1998) (12)
Black Aesthetics, Black Value (2018) (10)
Philosophy in Multiple Voices (2007) (9)
A Phenomenology of Biko’s Black Consciousness (2008) (9)
Black Existence in Philosophy of Culture 1 (2012) (8)
Not Always Enslaved, Yet Not Quite Free: Philosophical Challenges from the Underside of the New World (2008) (8)
Rarely Kosher: Studying Jews of Color in North America (2016) (7)
On the Temporality of Indigenous Identity (2013) (7)
Thinking through Rejections and Defenses of Transracialism (2018) (7)
Global Anti-Semitism in World-Historical Perspective: An Introduction (2009) (7)
Freedom, Justice, and Decolonization (2020) (6)
Africana Thought and African Diasporic Studies (2000) (6)
Reasoning in Black: Africana Philosophy Under the Weight of Misguided Reason (2012) (6)
When I Was There, It Was Not: On secretions once lost in the night (2007) (6)
A Political Companion to W. E. B. Du Bois (2018) (5)
African‐American Existential Philosophy (2007) (5)
Spoils of War: Women of Color, Cultures, and Revolutions (1997) (4)
Of Divine Warning: Disaster in a Modern Age (2009) (4)
Disciplining as a Human Science (2018) (4)
A Questioning Body of Laughter and Tears: Reading Black Skin, White Masks through the Cat and Mouse of Reason and a Misguided Theodicy (2002) (4)
Decolonizing Philosophy (2019) (4)
Race and racism: a symposium (1995) (4)
Phenomenology and Race (2017) (4)
Thoughts on two recent decades of studying race and racism (2018) (4)
Frantz Fanon, Fifty Years On: A Memorial Roundtable (2013) (3)
The Caribbean Philosophical Association (2011) (3)
Manifesto of Transdisciplinarity. Not to become slaves of the knowledge of others (2011) (3)
Requiem on a Life Well Lived: In Memory of Fanon (2011) (3)
African Philosophy's Search for Identity: Existential Considerations of a Recent Effort (1997) (3)
Race and ethics in International Relations (2020) (3)
Thoughts on Dussel's "Anti-Cartesian Meditations" (2013) (2)
Franz Boas in Africana Philosophy (2018) (2)
Journeys in Caribbean Thought: The Paget Henry Reader (2016) (2)
Pan‐Africanism and African‐American Liberation in a Postmodern World: A Review Essay (1999) (2)
Race & Racism in the Last Quarter of '95: The OJ & Post-OJ Trial & The Million Man March—A Symposium (1995) (2)
On the Borders of Anonymity and Superfluous Invisibility (2000) (2)
Africana Philosophy and Philosophy in Black (2013) (2)
Thoughts on Afropessimism (2020) (2)
Sartre, Jean-Paul (1905–80) (2014) (2)
Obligations Across Generations: A Consideration in the Understanding of Community Formation (2008) (2)
Toward the Decolonization of Normative Life (2020) (2)
Revolutionary Hope: Essays in Honor of William L. Mcbride (2013) (2)
Polycarp A. Ikuenobe, Philosophical Perspectives on Communalism and Morality in African Traditions Reviewed by (2007) (1)
Identity and Liberation: An Existential Phenomenological Approach (2000) (1)
On Philosophy, in Africana Philosophy (2020) (1)
Frantz Fanon’s Psychology of Black Consciousness (2018) (1)
On Pateman and Mills's Contract and Domination (2009) (1)
Cynthia Willet, Maternal Ethics and Other Slave Moralities (1998) (1)
A Philosophical Account of Africana Studies: An Interview with Lewis Gordon (2003) (1)
FANON and the Crisis of European Man (2020) (1)
Black Skins Masked: Finding Fanon in Isaac Julien's Frantz Fanon: “Black Skin, White Masks” (1996) (1)
Through the Twilight Zone of Nonbeing (2009) (1)
Meta-ethical and Liberatory Dimensions of Tragedy: A Schutzean Portrait (1998) (1)
A Phenomenology of Biko's Black Consciousness (2021) (1)
George Lamming the Existentialist (2008) (1)
On the Monstrous Threat of Reasoned Black Desire (2014) (1)
Geopolitics and Decolonization: Perspectives From the Global South (2017) (1)
Disaster, Ruin, and Permanent Catastrophe (2016) (1)
Reply to My Critics (2008) (1)
An Africana Philosophical Reading of Du Bois’s Political Thought (2018) (1)
Thinking through Some Themes of Race and More (2018) (1)
On Michael Monahan’s The Creolizing Subject: Race, Reason, and the Politics of Purity (2012) (0)
11 and Fanon on Embodied Bad Faith (2010) (0)
Making Science Reasonable: Peter Caws on Science both Human and “Natural” (2020) (0)
REPLY Response to Contributors (2011) (0)
United States (1998) (0)
An Introduction to Africana Philosophy: Preface (2008) (0)
From the President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association (2017) (0)
Falguni A. Sheth: Toward a political philosophy of race (2011) (0)
Chapter 2. Franz Boas in Africana Philosophy (2018) (0)
An Introduction to Africana Philosophy: Classic eighteenth- and nineteenth-century foundations (2008) (0)
Thomas C. Anderson , Sartre's Two Ethics: From Authenticity to Integral Humanity . Reviewed by (1995) (0)
Creolizing political theory in conversation (2018) (0)
An Introduction to Africana Philosophy: Guide to further reading (2008) (0)
Charles Wm. Ephraim's The Pathology of Eurocentrism (2011) (0)
Fanon as Critique of European Man (2020) (0)
Introduction: Forum on Creolizing Theory (2017) (0)
Review of Bruce Kuklick’s Black Philosopher, White Academy (2013) (0)
Wilson Harris: The New Age in the Mythic Past (1999) (0)
On the Market Colonization of the Virtual Public Sphere (2020) (0)
The Dialectics of Transformation in Africa Elias K. Bongmba (2007) (0)
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Teleological Suspensions for the Sake of Political Life (2018) (0)
Sheep and Goats (2014) (0)
“Fanon on cadavers, madness, and the damned” (2022) (0)
Racism, Colonialism, and Anonymity: Social Theory and Embodied Agency (2020) (0)
Fanon at seventy (2011) (0)
Book Review: Spencer, R. (1999). Spurious Issues: Race and Multiracial Identity Politics in the United States (2008) (0)
"Quand je suis lá, elle n'y est pas": On Reasoning in Black and the Anxiety of Collapse in Philosophy and the Human Sciences (2011) (0)
Frantz Fanon, Fifty Years On (2013) (0)
Some Thoughts on Decolonisation, Decoloniality, Racism, and Challenges of Citizenship in Communities of Learning (2020) (0)
An Introduction to Africana Philosophy: Africana philosophy as a modern philosophy (2008) (0)
Rockin' It in Blue: A Black Existential Essay on Jimi Hendrix (2017) (0)
An Introduction to Africana Philosophy: African philosophy (2008) (0)
Tragic Revolutionary Violence and Philosophical Anthropology (2020) (0)
Some Pitfalls of Contemporary Caribbean Consciousness: Thinking Through the Americas Today (2008) (0)
Fanon as a Critic of « Methodological Fetishism » (2014) (0)
On Naomi Zack's "The Ethics and Mores of Race" (2012) (0)
Roundtable discussion and Q&A with Armond White, Francesca Royster, Lewis Gordon and Daniel McNeil (2013) (0)
In Every Tongue (2020) (0)
A Forum on Creolizing Social and Political Theory in advance (2021) (0)
An Introduction to Africana Philosophy: Afro-Caribbean philosophy (2008) (0)
Introduction (2021) (0)
From the President of the CaribbeanPhilosophical Association (2005) (0)
Symposium in Honor of James Hal Cone (1938–2018) (2019) (0)
Thinking through the Web … in Black (2013) (0)
Shifting the Geography of Reason in Black and Africana Studies (2020) (0)
To Undiscipline Knowledge (2021) (0)
Race in the Dialectics of Culture (2020) (0)
Fanon's Continued Relevance (2020) (0)
Afro-Jewish ethics? (2017) (0)
The Old Order Is Dying, but a New One Cannot Be Born: Exploring new social and political terrains in trying times (2019) (0)
An Introduction to Africana Philosophy: Introduction: Africana philosophy in context (2008) (0)
The Problem of History in African American Theology (2014) (0)
Three pillars of African-American philosophy (2008) (0)
Interview with Professor Lewis Gordon (2016) (0)
Existential Phenomenology and History (2020) (0)
Introduction: Disciplinary Decadence (2015) (0)
Fanon and the Decolonization of Philosophy (2010) (0)
The Politics of Richard Wright: Perspectives on Resistance (2018) (0)
The Problem(s) of Theory and Theory Production in Africana Studies (2006) (0)
Jewish Diversity (2021) (0)
When Reason Is in a Bad Mood: A Fanonian Philosophical Portrait (2011) (0)
Problematic People and Epistemic Decolonization (2019) (0)
Three Recent Texts in Africana Philosophy : Overcoming Disciplinary Decadence (2016) (0)
Wright’s Afromodern Search for Political Freedom (2018) (0)
Response to Contributors (2011) (0)
Emancipatory Challenges of Blackness (2020) (0)
Existential Borders of Anonymity and Superfluous Invisibility (2013) (0)
Teleological Suspensions for Political Life (2020) (0)
An Introduction to Africana Philosophy: Africana philosophical movements in the United States and Britain (2008) (0)
Introduction: Creolizing critical pedagogy and political theories of education (2018) (0)
Sartre’s influence in Black existentialism (2020) (0)
Afterword: Living Fanon (2011) (0)
Thinking Art in a Decolonial Way (2021) (0)
When Monsters No Longer Speak (2016) (0)
Race in Film (2019) (0)
ASCP Program v4 (2017) (0)

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