Prof. Tommy J. Curry

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‘The real issue is change’: Edinburgh University’s first Black philosophy professor on racism and reform Prof Tommy J Curry reflects on leading the institute’s slavery review – and why it must lead to meaningful action

‘The real issue is change’: @proftjcurry.bsky.social - Edinburgh’s first Black philosophy professor, on racism and reform

'How do you create leagues of Black thinkers and clinicians and doctors and engineers and artists that fill the gap of what were lost...' 👇

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‘The real issue is change’: Edinburgh University’s first Black philosophy professor on racism and reform Prof Tommy J Curry reflects on leading the institute’s slavery review – and why it must lead to meaningful action

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“Scotland has a moral debt to pay by sustaining an ideology that helped to exploit, kill and dominate racialised people for centuries... the University of Edinburgh was at the forefront at that time of creating and proliferating those theories” - Prof Tommy J Curry

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Thank you. It was an extensive research endeavor.

WCU Assistant Professor’s Innovative Book on Black Epistemology Coming This Summer West Chester University Assistant Professor of Philosophy Dr. Adebayo Oluwaymi is set to release his much-anticipated book, Foundations of Black Epistemology: Knowledge Discourse in Africana Philosoph...

Congratulations to Dr. Adebayo Oluwayomi on the publication of his groundbreaking text.

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YouTube video by Wellness Collective Dr Curry on Misandry and Black Men and Boys Q&A

Anti-Black misandry has negative health consequences for Black men and boys. The dehumanization of Black males is linked to depression and suicide ideation, and is not reversible by markers of social mobility as is often the case in other groups.

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Off the hooks: Black male sexual vulnerability and feminist metaphysics By Reny Taylor Introduction:  Prevailing cultural narratives suggest that Black boys aspire to a form of patriarchal hypermasculinity—that they learn, through exposure to media, peers, and com…

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Very excited to share the stories and accomplishments of Dr. Gilmore.

this article continues to be relevant
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REF panels must reflect the diversity of the UK higher education sector The composition of REF panels is a litmus test for how seriously the sector takes its commitments to diversity, argue Louise Bracken, Elizabeth Stokoe, Nick Brook, and Rachel Woolley The composition o...

REF panels must reflect the diversity of the UK higher education sector wonkhe.com/blogs/ref-pa...

Just published! FOUNDATIONS OF BLACK EPISTEMOLOGY: KNOWLEDGE DISCOURSE IN AFRICANA PHILOSOPHY, by Adebayo Oluwayomi, engages with epistemological questions concerning the object and subject knowledge from the black philosophical perspective. tupress.temple.edu/books/founda...

Europe Is Recruiting Academics Disenchanted With America The U.K., France and other countries have set up funds to help U.S. researchers relocate to the continent.

"Universities across Europe...are offering grants and the promise of #academicfreedom to U.S. scholars." (Gift link) www.wsj.com/world/europe...

American slavery wasn’t just a white man’s business − white women profited, too Human bondage was big business in the antebellum US, and men weren’t the only ones cashing in.

Re-upping this one year later: “Slavery was White men’s and women’s business.” theconversation.com/american-sla...

Great article discussing Black Male Studies' challenge to the orthodoxy of the U.S. academy.

Very excited to speak at this year's How the Lights Get In Festival.

A White Nationalist Wrote a Law School Paper Promoting Racist Views. It Won Him an Award.

This is what is permissible under Trump's regime. A White Nationalist Wrote a Law School Paper Promoting Racist Views. It Won Him an Award. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/u...

Happy Pride Month brother.

This is heartbreaking. Minnesota as the site of politically motivated assassinations is just…unthinkable.

Hard to not love this view in Edinburgh.

It is so telling to me that Black scholars are releasing YouTube videos debating the dangers of Black men & Diddy while white scholars are fleeing the US b/c of what they perceive as fascism.

what will be our next conceptual scheme. Will it be the next iteration of white liberal political reasoning, or will it become more compatible with the rising tide of conservatism taking over federal and state institutions.

Liberal arts scholars have yet to explain how or why the categories of anti-discrimination law deliberated by Congressional members became the dominant terms of our thinking in the post-civil rights era. Now that these terms have failed to accurately describe & account for social hierarchies,

Perfect image.

Such important work showing that low income Black & Brown men were disproportionately killed by Covid 19 and had the greatest effect on life expectancy.

The workshop is available online now! www.youtube.com/live/pvdl80x...

What Parents of Boys Should Know Daughters tend to receive higher levels of affection and patience at home than sons. But the sons might need it more.

There is a growing awareness of the specific condition of boys, Black boys are still missing @theatlantic.com from the studies being considered. Their mental health markers & outcomes indicate greater disadvantage compared to many other groups.

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Unheard Voices: The Importance of Intersectionality in Responsiveness and the Systematic Ignoring of Black Men by Elected Officials - Political Behavior All citizens are not listened to equally, despite the importance of responsiveness and listening to different theories of democracy. We take an ‌intersectional‌ ‌approach‌ ‌to‌ make several novel pred...

Black men are the race/sex group the least likely to be responded to or listened to by elected officials. This study has profound implications for liberal arts theorists and political theory.

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Very excited for this discussion.

We are at a different moment in the United States that requires new analyses of anti-Black racism, the malleability of democracy for racial tyranny, and the structure of American government. The old language, supposing that liberalism can stave off or protect racial minorities, is no longer useful.