Lewis R. Gordon
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Lewis R. Gordon

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Lewis R. Gordon is an Afro-Jewish (Mizrahi and Sephardic) public intellectual, academic, and musician (jazz, blues, rock, reggae, hip hop, etc.). He teaches at UCONN, where he is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Global Affairs and Head of the Philosophy Department, with affiliations in many academic units, including Caribbean Studies and Jewish Studies. He lectures and is involved in political and artistic projects across the globe and holds appointments in South Africa, Jamaica, India, and France. He previously taught at Brown University, where he founded the Department of Africana Studies, and Temple University, where was the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy and founder of the Center for Afro-Jewish Studies and the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought. He co-edits with Jane Anna Gordon the journal Philosophy and Global Affairs and, with Rozena Maart, Epifania Amoo-Adare, and Sayan Dey, the Routledge-India book series Academics, Politics and Society in the Post-Covid World. He is the author of many books, including, most recently, Freedom, Justice, and Decolonization (Routledge, 2021); Fear of Black Consciousness (hardcover, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022; in the UK, London: Penguin Books, 2022), Picador paperback 2023, and as a Macmillan Audiobook (read by Landon Woodson and Lewis R. Gordon); with German translation, Angst vor Schwarzem Bewusstsein (Berlin: Ullstein Verlag, 2022); Portuguese translations Medo da Consciência Negra (Lisbon: Penguin-Portugal, 2022) and Brazilian Portuguese translation, Medo da Consciência Negra (São Paulo: Todavia, 2023); and Black Existentialism and Decolonizing Knowledge: Writings of Lewis R. Gordon, edited by Rozena Maart and Sayan Dey (London: Bloomsbury, 2023). His accolades include the 2022 Eminent Scholar Award from the Global Development Studies division of the International Studies Association.
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