Ten Black Philosophers That Should Be Taught In Schools

I teach philosophy to teenagers. Our journey through philosophical history goes something like this: Aristotle — Boethius — Aquinas — Descartes — Hume — Kant — Russell — Singer. There are others, of course, but you get the picture: it’s very European and very male.

On a basic level, it is what it is. You cannot do justice to philosophy and not teach western philosophy and you cannot teach western philosophy without discussing these giants in the field. This overwhelming Eurocentrism (and its accompanying androcentism) is, however, no…