Tommy J Curry

Tommy J. Curry is professor of philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests are in Africana philosophy, the Black radical tradition and Black male studies. He is author of The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood (Temple University Press 2017), which won the 2018 American Book Award. He is the author of Another white Man's Burden: Josiah Royce's Quest for a Philosophy of Racial Empire (SUNY Press 2018), and has re-published the forgotten...See more

Tommy J. Curry is professor of philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests are in Africana philosophy, the Black radical tradition and Black male studies. He is author of The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood (Temple University Press 2017), which won the 2018 American Book Award. He is the author of Another white Man's Burden: Josiah Royce's Quest for a Philosophy of Racial Empire (SUNY Press 2018), and has re-published the forgotten philosophical works of William Ferris as The Philosophical Treatise of William H. Ferris: Selected Readings from The African Abroad or, His Evolution in Western Civilization (Rowman & Littlefield 2016). He is also the editor of the first book series dedicated to the study of Black males entitled Black Male Studies: A Series Exploring the Paradoxes of Racially Subjugated Males published by Temple University Press. Dr. Curry is currently co editing (with Daw-nay Evans) the forthcoming anthology Contemporary African American Philosophy: Where Do We Go from Here for Bloomsbury Publishing (2019). See less