Author: Kwame Anthony Appiah

The beating of Rodney King and the resulting riots in South Central Los Angeles. The violent clash between Hasidim and African-Americans in Crown H...

We often think identity is personal. But the identities that shape the world, our struggles, and our hopes, are social ones, shared with countless ...

In the past few decades, scientists of human nature—including experimental and cognitive psychologists, neuroscientists, evolutionary theorists, an...

In America today, the problem of achieving racial justice--whether through "color-blind" policies or through affirmative action--provokes more nois...

W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black polit...

This landmark work challenges the separatist doctrines which have come to dominate our understanding of the world. Appiah revives the ancient philo...

Race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality: in the past couple of decades, a great deal of attention has been paid to such collectiv...

W. E. B. Du Bois never felt so at home as when he was a student at the University of Berlin. But Du Bois was also American to his core, scarred but...

“Appiah is a writer and thinker of remarkable range… [He] has packed into this short book an impressive amount of original reflection… A rich and i...

A bold vision of liberal humanism for navigating today’s complex world of growing identity politics and rising nationalismCollective identities suc...

In this groundbreaking work, Kwame Anthony Appiah, hailed as "one of the most relevant philosophers today" (New York Times Book Review), changes th...