Mark Christian Thompson's guest appearances

Mark Christian Thompson

New Books in Critical Theory

New Books in African American Studies

New Books in History

New Books in American Studies

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New Books Network

Conversations in Atlantic Theory

Kevin Thompson

Andrea Pitts

Zora Neale Hurston

Charles McKinney

Richard Price

Martin Shuster

Kyle Mays

Saint Felix

Grant Farred

Mark Christian

Aram Goudsouzian

Lee McBride

Ana Lucia Araujo

Christian Thompson

Ian Olasov

OwlTail

A discussion with Mark Christian Thompson, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor in the Department of English at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He is the author of five books: Black Fascisms, published in 2007 by University of Virginia Press; Kafka’s Blues, out with Northwestern University Press in 2016; 2018’s Anti-Music: Jazz and Racial Blackness in German Thought Between the Wars, published by SUNY Press; Phenomenal Blackness, our occasion for discussion today, which appeared in late 2021 with University of Chicago Press and the forthcoming Critique of Nonviolence: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Philosophy. In this conversation, we explore the influence of key figures in German critical theory on post-WWII African American writers and political intellectuals.

A discussion with <a href="https://english.jhu.edu/directory/mark-christian-thompson/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mark Christian Thompson</a>, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor in the <a href="https://english.jhu.edu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Department of English at Johns Hopkins University</a> in Baltimore, Maryland. He is the author of five books: <a href="https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/3581" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Black Fascisms</a>, published in 2007 by University of Virginia Press; <a href="https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810132856/kafkas-blues/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kafka’s Blues</a>, out with Northwestern University Press in 2016; 2018’s <a href="https://sunypress.edu/Books/A/Anti-Music" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Anti-Music: Jazz and Racial Blackness in German Thought Between the Wars</a>, published by SUNY Press; <a href="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo125518408.html#anchor-table-of-contents" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Phenomenal Blackness</a>, our occasion for discussion today, which appeared in late 2021 with University of Chicago Press and the forthcoming <a href="https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=32828" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Critique of Nonviolence: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Philosophy</a>. In this conversation, we explore the influence of key figures in German critical theory on post-WWII African American writers and political intellectuals.

Mark Christian Thompson on Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory