#  Tommie Shelby 

Chair of the Department of African and African American Studies

Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy

 

 

 



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Tommie Shelby received his B.A. from Florida A & M University (1990) and Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh (1998). Prior to coming to Harvard in 2000, he taught philosophy at Ohio State University (1996-2000). He is the author of *Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform* (Belknap, 2016) and *We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity* (Belknap, 2005) and coeditor (with Derrick Darby) of *Hip Hop and Philosophy: Rhyme 2 Reason* (Open Court, 2005).

 

 

 





 

 

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