Writer | Professor | Philosopher | Theologian
FORTHCOMING BOOKS
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The Black Marxist Feminism of bell hooks (Palgrave Macmillan, Under Contract)
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bell hooks (Routledge, Under Contract)
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The Marxist Foundations of the Oppositional Gaze (Palgrave Macmillan, Under Contract)
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Heidegger's Pedagogies of God (Wipf and Stock, Forthcoming, Under Contract)
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Logos and Time: Rhetoric, Heidegger and Rahner (Wipf and Stock, Forthcoming, Under Contract)
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BOOKS
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The Philosophy of Christology: From the Bultmannians to Derrida, 1951-2002 (Wipf and Stock, 2022)
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Existential Theology: An Introduction (Wipf and Stock, 2020)
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A Theologian’s Guide to Heidegger (Wipf and Stock, 2019)
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Heideggerian Theologies: The Pathmarks of John Macquarrie, Rudolf Bultmann, Paul Tillich, and Karl Rahner (Wipf and Stock, 2018)
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PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES/CHAPTERS
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“Site(s), Sight(s), and Memory: The Anxiety of Morrison’s Influence on bell hooks.” South Central Review 41, no. 1 (Spring 2024): 81-99.
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“‘To Enact a Postmodernism of Resistance’: The Transgressive Thought of bell hooks and the Interdisciplinarity of White-Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy.” USAbroad: Journal of American History and Politics 6, 2023
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“‘The One Who Decides on the Exception’: The Sovereign and Sovereignty in Slavoj Žižek’s Political Theology after Carl Schmitt and Giorgio Agamben.” International Journal of Žižek Studies 15(1), 2021
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“The Existential Demands of Race: Dialogues in Theological Anthropology.” Journal of African American Studies 24(2), 2020
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“‘Right Step (Albeit in the Wrong Direction)’: Žižek on Heidegger’s Nazism and the Domestication of Nietzsche.” International Journal of Žižek Studies 14(1), 2020
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“Dialectics and Hegelian Negation in Slavoj Žižek’s Enjoy Your Symptom: Fighting the Fantasies of Trauma, Identity, Authority, and Phallophany.” International Journal of Žižek Studies 13(2), 2019
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“Between Activism, Religiosity, and the Public Sphere: The Intellectual Insurgency of bell hooks.” Journal of African-American Studies 23(3), 2019
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“The Meaning of the Epistemological Situation: Reading Douglass Rushkoff’s Program or Be Programmed with Slavoj Žižek’s A Pervert’s Guide to Ideology.” International Journal of Žižek Studies 12(3), 2018
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BOOK CHAPTERS
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"‘To Be on Fire for Justice’: James Cone’s Legacy and Cornel West’s Prophetic Commitments to Liberational-Theological Social Justice.” Routledge Companion to Literature and Social Justice. Ed. Masood Ashraf Raja and Nick T. C. Lu (Routledge, Forthcoming November 2023)
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“A Short History of Liberation Theology: From Latin America to the United States, India, and Palestine: 1968-1989.” Routledge Companion to Literature and Social Justice. Ed. Masood Ashraf Raja and Nick T. C. Lu (Routledge, Forthcoming November 2023)
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“Social Justice: A Philosophical Introduction,” with Nick T. C. Lu. Routledge Companion to Literature and Social Justice. Ed. Masood Ashraf Raja and Nick T. C. Lu (Routledge, Forthcoming November 2023)
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“Hooks, Bell (1952-2021).” Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Ed. George Ritzer and Chris Rojek (Wiley-Blackwell, October 2022): 1-4
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“The Question of the Meaning of Ágalma: Between Hermeneutics, Topology and Unconcealment - Commentary on Sessions IX and X.” Reading Jacques Lacan’s Seminar VIII: On Transference. Eds. Jonathan Dickstein and Gautam B. Thakur (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020): 99-119
“Heidegger and The Outsider, Savage Holiday, and The Long Dream.” Critical Insights: Richard Wright. Ed. Kimberly Drake. (Grey House/EBSCO, 2019): 56-71
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ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
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“Adam Clayton Powell” in African American Activism and Political Engagement: An Encyclopedia of Empowerment. Ed. Angela Jones (Bloomsbury Academic, June 2023)
“The Black Star Line” in African American Activism and Political Engagement: An Encyclopedia of Empowerment. Ed. Angela Jones (Bloomsbury Academic, June 2023)
“Fair Housing Act of 1968” in African American Activism and Political Engagement: An Encyclopedia of Empowerment. Ed. Angela Jones (Bloomsbury Academic, June 2023)
“Negritude” in African American Activism and Political Engagement: An Encyclopedia of Empowerment. Ed. Angela Jones (Bloomsbury Academic, June 2023)
“Compromise of 1877” in African American Activism and Political Engagement: An Encyclopedia of Empowerment. Ed. Angela Jones (Bloomsbury Academic, June 2023)
“Alexander Crummell” in African American Activism and Political Engagement: An Encyclopedia of Empowerment. Ed. Angela Jones (Bloomsbury Academic, June 2023)
“Economic Justice” in African American Activism and Political Engagement: An Encyclopedia of Empowerment. Ed. Angela Jones (Bloomsbury Academic, June 2023)
“The Chicago Defender” in African American Activism and Political Engagement: An Encyclopedia of Empowerment. Ed. Angela Jones (Bloomsbury Academic, June 2023)
“Negro World” in African American Activism and Political Engagement: An Encyclopedia of Empowerment. Ed. Angela Jones (Bloomsbury Academic, June 2023)
“Reparations” in African American Activism and Political Engagement: An Encyclopedia of Empowerment. Ed. Angela Jones (Bloomsbury Academic, June 2023)
“Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)” in African American Activism and Political Engagement: An Encyclopedia of Empowerment. Ed. Angela Jones (Bloomsbury Academic, June 2023)
“John Brown” in African American Activism and Political Engagement: An Encyclopedia of Empowerment. Ed. Angela Jones (Bloomsbury Academic, June 2023)
“Martin Luther King Jr.” in African American Activism and Political Engagement: An Encyclopedia of Empowerment. Ed. Angela Jones (Bloomsbury Academic, June 2023)
“Coretta Scott King” in African American Activism and Political Engagement: An Encyclopedia of Empowerment. Ed. Angela Jones (Bloomsbury Academic, June 2023)
“Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.” in African American Activism and Political Engagement: An Encyclopedia of Empowerment. Ed. Angela Jones (Bloomsbury Academic, June 2023)
“The Black Family” in African American Activism and Political Engagement: An Encyclopedia of Empowerment. Ed. Angela Jones (Bloomsbury Academic, June 2023)
“Black Education in Antebellum North” in Race and Ethnicity in the United States: From Pre-contact to the Present: Volume 2: Independence to 1900. Ed. Russell Lawson (ABC-Clio/Greenwood, October 2019): 27-29
“American Baptist Church and Slavery” in Race and Ethnicity in the United States: From Pre-contact to the Present: Volume 2: Independence to 1900. Ed. Russell Lawson (ABC-Clio/Greenwood, October 2019): 5-8
“Christianity in the Antebellum South” in Race and Ethnicity in the United States: From Pre-contact to the Present: Volume 2: Independence to 1900. Ed. Russell Lawson (ABC-Clio/Greenwood, October 2019): 45-48
“The Whig Party and Race, Class, Ethnicity” in Race and Ethnicity in the United States: From Pre-contact to the Present: Volume 2: Independence to 1900. Ed. Russell Lawson (ABC-Clio/Greenwood, October 2019): 212-215
“The Democratic Party in the Antebellum Era and Race, Class, Ethnicity” in Race and Ethnicity in the United States: From Pre-contact to the Present: Volume 2: Independence to 1900. Ed. Russell Lawson (ABC-Clio/Greenwood, October 2019): 59-63
“Lincoln, Class, Race, and Slavery” in Race and Ethnicity in the United States: From Pre-contact to the Present: Volume 2: Independence to 1900. Ed. Russell Lawson (ABC-Clio/Greenwood, October 2019): 128-131
“The Republican Party and Race, Class, Ethnicity” in Race and Ethnicity in the United States: From Pre-contact to the Present: Volume 2: Independence to 1900. Ed. Russell Lawson (ABC-Clio/Greenwood, October 2019): 174-176
“Radical Republicans” in Race and Ethnicity in the United States: From Pre-contact to the Present: Volume 3: The Progressive Era through the Civil Rights Movement. Ed. Russell Lawson (ABC-Clio/Greenwood, October 2019): 171-174
“The Democratic Party in the South” in Race and Ethnicity in the United States: From Pre-contact to the Present: Volume 3: The Progressive Era through the Civil Rights Movement. Ed. Russell Lawson (ABC-Clio/Greenwood, October 2019): 57-59
“Lincoln and Reconstruction” in Race and Ethnicity in the United States: From Pre-contact to the Present: Volume 3: The Progressive Era through the Civil Rights Movement. Ed. Russell Lawson (ABC-Clio/Greenwood, October 2019): 125-128
“Booker T. Washington and the Atlantic Movement” in Race and Ethnicity in the United States: From Pre-contact to the Present: Volume 3: The Progressive Era through the Civil Rights Movement. Ed. Russell Lawson (ABC-Clio/Greenwood, October 2019): 249-252
“Decline of Harlem Renaissance” in Race and Ethnicity in the United States: From Pre-contact to the Present: Volume 3: The Progressive Era through the Civil Rights Movement. Ed. Russell Lawson (ABC-Clio/Greenwood, October 2019): 97-98
“World War I and the Black Experience” in Race and Ethnicity in the United States: From Pre-contact to the Present: Volume 3: The Progressive Era through the Civil Rights Movement. Ed. Russell Lawson (ABC-Clio/Greenwood, October 2019): 261-264
“Diversity in Higher Education” in Race and Ethnicity in the United States: From Pre-contact to the Present: Volume 4: Post Civil Rights to the Present. Ed. Russell Lawson (ABC-Clio/Greenwood, October 2019): 113-115
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OTHER BOOKS
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Systems of Onto-theology: Toward a Heideggerian Method (Pathmarks, 2018)
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The Effectiveness of Classroom Seating Arrangements: A Study of Students and Teachers (Pathmarks, 2018)
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