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Neil Roberts

Neil Roberts is an associate professor of Africana Studies and a faculty affiliate in Political Science and Religion at Williams College. He is author of the award-winning Freedom as Marronage (2015) and the collaborative work Journeys in Caribbean Thought (2016). Roberts is presently completing “A Political Companion to Frederick Douglass” for The University Press of Kentucky, and he is President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association. icon

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The Critique of Racial Liberalism

By Neil Roberts

This month I interviewed Charles W. Mills about his new book, Black Rights / White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism. Mills is Distinguished ...

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