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Kwame Anthony Appiah

Bylines

The Prophet of Maximum Productivity

Thorstein Veblen’s maverick economic ideas made him the foremost iconoclast of the Age of Iconoclasts.

by Kwame Anthony Appiah via New York Review of Books on January 3, 2021
The Defender of Differences

Three new books consider the life, and impact, of Franz Boas, the "father of American cultural anthropology."

by Kwame Anthony Appiah via New York Review of Books on May 14, 2020
What Was Africa to Them?

How historians have understood Africa and the Black diaspora in global conversations about race and identity.

by Kwame Anthony Appiah via New York Review of Books on September 27, 2007
The House of the Prophet

Martin Luther King Jr. was the galvanizing voice of the civil rights struggle, an uncompromising, complicated figure who soared in the pulpit.

by Kwame Anthony Appiah via New York Review of Books on April 11, 2002

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Pride parade passes the Stonewall Inn.

Stonewall's Legacy and Kwame Anthony Appiah's Misuse of History

The New York Times should have done a better job fact-checking Appiah’s essay. Philosophy may be allegorical. History isn’t.

by Alan J. Singer via HNN on June 23, 2019

Portrait of W.E.B. Du Bois.

Who Was W.E.B. Du Bois?

A review of "Lines of Descent: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity," by Kwame Anthony Appiah.

by Nicholas Lemann via New York Review of Books on September 24, 2014

Broken statue bust of a Black man.

A Bloody Retelling of 'Huckleberry Finn'

Percival Everett transforms Mark Twain’s classic 'Huckleberry Finn' into a tragedy.

by Tyler Austin Harper via The Atlantic on March 12, 2024

A faux Brazilian village constructed for Henry II and Catherine de’ Medici on the banks of the Seine in Rouen, France, and inhabited by fifty Tupinambá people who were forcibly brought there from Brazil, 1550.

The Discovery of Europe

A new book investigates the indigenous Americans who were brought to or traveled to Europe in the 1500s—a story central to the beginning of globalization.

by Álvaro Enrigue via New York Review of Books on December 28, 2023

Henry Louis Gates Jr., Great Zimbabwe, circa 1996; photograph by Graham Smith.

Finding My Roots

The storytellers who taught me over the course of my career all knew how to bring Black history vividly to life.

by Henry Louis Gates Jr. via New York Review of Books on September 29, 2023

Ronald Squire, Harry Belafonte and Dorothy Dandridge.

Against Race Essentialism

Black identity is a reality, not an idea.

by Tomiwa Owolade via New Statesman on May 15, 2023

Panel of medieval-era paintings depicting humans and animals.

When Did Racism Begin?

The history of race has animated a highly contentious, sometimes fractious debate among scholars.

by Vanita Seth via The Chronicle of Higher Education on August 19, 2022

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

How Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Helped Remake the Literary Canon

The scholar has changed the way Black authors get read and the way Black history gets told.

by Henry Louis Gates Jr., David Remnick via The New Yorker on February 19, 2022

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