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Instructor: Dalitso Ruwe

In recent years, debates about diversity have been hot topics on campuses across the globe. Discussion about whether statues from colonialist, racist figures should be on campuses or not, whether Critical Race Theory threatens western democracy. Amidst these debates, philosophers have not been without their say about diversity and particularly the place of Black people in educational settings even in the discipline of philosophy. As such this the course will look at how Black philosophers over the last 30 plus years have attempted to challenge the disciplinary view of diversity particularly as it relates to Black philosophical thought and critiques. Consequently, we will read diverse views from Black philosopher challenging different notions of what has come to pass for diversity and the different stances the field of philosophy has developed about diversity from the Enlightenment period to our contemporary moment.