Dr. Melvin Rogers
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Edna and Richard Salomon Distinguished Professor, Brown University & Associate Director, Center for PPE Find me at: @mrogers @lor .sh
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I am so excited! My advance copies of The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought arrived today.
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I don't know how folks can begin to consider Bloomberg's candidacy without it already being a betrayal of black and brown folks.
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I am officially a full professor. 😀 What do I do now?😕
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This time last week we were at my mother's home enjoying a feast. Our visit was a surprise and she had not seen her grandson in person for well over a year. Today I'm at the airport heading to Cville. My mother passed away yesterday.
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I just realized, it just hit me, that I'm coming to the office, I'm teaching, but I really am not present. These things need to be done, but it is clear to me that my mother's passing last month has, in a sense, destroyed my world.
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At 1217 pages, my co-editor and I just sent African American Political Thought: A Collected History off to the University of Chicago Press. Jack Turner and I have been up to this for a number of years and I couldn't imagine pursuing this project with anyone else. I need a drink!!
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Well this happened!! Signed the book contract with Princeton for The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought🙂😀😀😁
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Last year in response to COVID, we paused graduate admissions in Political Science. We focused on our students and reimagined financial support. I'm excited about this upcoming admissions cycle and our ability to provide SIX YEARS of funding to future incoming cohorts.
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Before Twitter disappears, I'm excited to share the cover for The Darkened Light of Faith, forthcoming 2023 Princeton UP.
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My co-editor (Jack Turner) and I received the page proofs for our volume this evening, African American Political Thought: A Collected History. We have been at this thing for so long. Wow. I got teary-eyed!!
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I found out last week that I have been promoted to full professor. 🥳🔥🙌🔥🥳Yesterday, I taught my last class of the semester. 🥱🥱🥳 I think I'm done. 🍸🙌
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Freedom as an excuse to be selfish. Freedom as an excuse to ignore the needs of others. Freedom as an excuse to pillage and plunder the planet. We don't understand freedom.
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Analytic philosophers are odd. They seem to imagine that their readers are looking for every opportunity to prove them wrong, and this leads them down that terrible road of trying to address every possible objection, no matter how far-fetched. My god.
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Looks like we need to have more academic job openings in Race and American politics and not in quantitative methods. IJS
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I am so excited!! In two months, my book will be out from Princeton University Press. 😀😀😀
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This book is now finished. It will go through the production cycle once I return it to Princeton, but for the moment I am extraordinarily happy and relieved this is complete.
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I love good news:
"Dear Dr. Rogers
On behalf of the Heidelberg Center for American Studies and the Department of Theology, we would like to invite you to be the tenth recipient of the distinguished James W.C. Pennington Award here at the University of Heidelberg." 😄😄
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A pretty exciting week, this little guy permanently joined our family. He has been with us for a while now, but so grateful the shadow of uncertainty has been removed and so grateful for this joy!
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There is also a dark irony. Parks' place in history is associated with the expansion of democratic participation and collective governance. The conclusion of what is charted here ends with rule (not governance) in a branch of government that is seemingly anti-democratic. Sigh
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Between moments of calm and emotional upheaval, I was thinking that the best bits of me that people appreciate are owed to her. She so impressed herself on me that when people who knew her would say to me, I see Yvonne in you, they literally meant they could see her.
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There is something about the person of
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as conveyed through her policies and how she talks about them that draws me, personally, to her. Politics, I suppose, is not about falling in love. But is it not partly about seeing in candidates a passion that you wish you could…
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It is an emotional affair when the page proofs come in. 🥲🥲Wow, this book is real.😀😆🥳
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With Rawls I discovered the communitarians. With the communitarians I discovered that I really wanted to read John Dewey. And Dewey made me think (although I continue to love Dewey) that I should have just started with the African American tradition.
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When your kid decides he wants to be a police officer for Halloween 🎃.
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I woke up yesterday burning with rage. I put these words to paper. This was before Atlanta and the other cities. We Should Be Afraid, But Not of Protesters
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Juliet Hooker's book comes out a week after mine, and Black Grief/White Grievance is a very important text to get your hands on. At the heart of the book is a sustained reflection on the unequal distribution of loss in a democratic society--a society in which Black folks are made
Black Grief/White grievance is almost here! It’s so exciting to finally hold a book you’ve worked on for years. The official publication date is Oct 3, but it’s available for preorder now 😊.
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Read them all. The problems we face are complex and no one or group can address them all. So read widely and deeply in the Black intellectual tradition.
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African American Political Thought: A Collected History, 1237 pages returned to the University of Chicago Press to begin its production journey. 8 years worth of work!! Jack Turner: best co-editor ever!😀😀😀
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I'm not sure being a number 1 release in philosophy on Amazon is significant, but it is still cool to have that little badge up there.
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This is dropping in about two weeks!!! Stay tuned: African American Political Thought
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I work in American and African American political thought. For those junior theory scholars or theory graduate students who are now not attending APSA because of the labor dispute and whose panels have been canceled, I would be interested in hosting those panels via Zoom. Given
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Sent the manuscript back to begin its production journey with Princeton UP. The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought is on its way.
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I am finishing up my sixth and final tenure review letter. I'm exhausted, but I read some great stuff. I won't criticize the process. I know many letters have been written for me over the years with all my moves. BUT, I don't like the comparison question. Compare so and so to
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A recent post on Ellison's Invisible Man got me thinking. How many people teach one book courses? I haven't done this. But I can see myself spending an entire semester on The Souls of Black Folk. 1/
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Times are dark, but there is some light. We now have a cover for the book: African American Political Thought
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I have a very talkative bunch this semester in Intro to Political Thought. I love it!! At bottom, I am really a liberal arts college professor, and I love those moments when I can be that here. (It doesn't happen frequently. Much to my disappointment. And I need to fight to
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I was chatting with a graduate student yesterday, and they informed me that there are six political theory jobs in the US. I did not check, but I trust this student. This is absolutely horrifying.
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A child is now gone. A cop took his life. That should make us all violently angry!!!
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I'm delighted to highlight the postdoctoral opportunities we have at the Center for Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Brown. Our theme is democratic erosion, capaciously understood:
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I was tired, but I had an amazing time at St. Johns. These are some brilliant students.
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Poverty grew in one-third of U.S. counties between 2016 and 2018 despite strong national economy. via
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Congratulations to
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on a wonderful defense and an equally wonderful dissertation on Du Bois' Darkwater. You and I have been on a journey since 2013, but now I wish you the best on the next phase of your adventure at
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1/2 "More than 230 bills have been put forward in thirty-eight state legislatures seeking to restrict voting access,” Abrams noted. That is already “four times the number of bills to restrict voting access as generally compared to the first week of February 2020.”
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Given all the mail-in voting, we really should be skeptical of these exit polls. Stop circulating them because they fit your ideological narrative. It is irresponsible.
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I'm over the moon about these initial blurbs for my book The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought. Pre-order the book. I so appreciate
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This is why it is all political and the notion of judicial objectivity and independence from politics is bs.
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What is most troubling about this to me is that Trump has "normalized" this disrespectful mode engagement, and reporters continue to extend respect when it is undeserved. The norm of professionalism is meaningless if you are the only one performing it.
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I'm glad Beto did what he did in Texas, but perhaps we should slow down with O'Rourke for 2020. And if we insist on saying O'Rourke for 2020, then we should probably not exclude Gillum for 2020 who came very close to being the first African American governor of FL. IJS
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I know a great many of us are happy that Twitter cut Trump off. But we must also see the enormity of corporate power and the rest of us living at the mercy of that power. This is not a defense of Trump, it is about us seeing what's happening as having additional meanings.
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Had a glorious time at Bowdoin College lecturing on Martin Delany and Frederick Douglass. I was especially delighted to spend time with Paul Franco. Paul was one of my first political theory professors before I moved on to Amherst. Students offered thoughtful and rich questions.
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We have a busy year planned for Brown's Political Theory Colloquium. We also have some big names presenting at The Democracy Project. More info to come.
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Will you, supporters of Sanders or Warren, give this rift more attention than it deserves? Will you participate in the destruction of the two most visionary campaigns we have seen in decades?
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1/ ***BOOK SERIES ALERT***: PLEASE SHARE IN YOUR NETWORKS. OXFORD NEW HISTORIES OF PHILOSOPHY speaks to a growing concern to broaden and reexamine philosophy’s past (). As professional philosophers and intellectual historians grapple with the scarcity of…
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So excited about this book.. Also delighted to say congratulations to
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for this forthcoming book and landing the tenure track joint appointment at Amherst College in Black Studies and Political Science. Now let's finish up that brilliant dissertation and get on with it.
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I am not attending APSA because of the labor dispute. I try to keep my ethics and politics together. But Chip Turner did put together a 🔥🔥🔥 panel on The Darkened Light of Faith that won't happen. Because the panel was going to be 🔥🔥🔥, I still need to say thank you to
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I'm overjoyed that Michelle Rose, who wrote a wonderful dissertation on Alain Locke, will be an assistant professor in the fall at California State University, Chico. She and
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trusted me some years ago and came with me to Brown. I'm so happy for them both.
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Happy Publication Day!! Check out this interview as I discuss The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought.
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I offer four names. Ellison's star descended some decades ago. Worth reconsidering in this moment. Spillers is very interesting, but much richer than how she is being read. Hubert Harrison fascinating. Danielle Allen for those of us who think there is something here worth saving.
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Civility is only as good as the background values it is intended to serve. To call for it now is to demand silence in the face of cruelty and harm, obedience in the face of the gangsterization of our institutions. Courage is needed now not civility!
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Zoom or In-Person: If you have students that are excited, smart, and engaging, I don't know that the medium matters. This Du Bois graduate seminar is going so well.
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I have in mind a course organized around four books: Democracy in America, Black Reconstruction, An American Dilemma, and These Truths. The vision isn't yet fleshed out, but these four books.
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For those interested, Princeton recorded my talk from yesterday on "Thinking About Black Republicanism: An Introduction."
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I'm emotional. Each night, Isaiah gives me ten kisses, one on each cheek. Tonight he said, Daddy, we will only do three. Why, I asked? Because I'm a big boy. But Daddy, I still love you.
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Copyediting African American Political Thought: A Collected History. So excited to see this moving along!!
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1/ I've been pushing African American Political Thought: A Collected History, but I want to alert you to another text that came out last year. I really like this volume.
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We said goodbye to him today. I hope we were as good to him as he was to us.
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There are moments when you are emotionally overwhelmed because you know who came before you and know where you are. You know, statistically, your story shouldn't go this way. But it does, and you are eternally grateful! Wow! So honored!
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Hosted by the Democracy Project and the Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Brown. This will be an amazing event!!
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For reviewing manuscripts I received these wonderful books.
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Teaching Intro to Political Theory is hard. Every new voice I include only generates in students the request for more figures. They are right to want more beyond the "West." But the issue for me is always can I bring the same level of expertise as when I cover Jefferson or Walker
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To say this is unsettling is an understatement. Just terrible.
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1/ Now is great time for Political Theory, American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science to do special issues on our political moment
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@apsrjournal
. They should center this moment of racial disregard and its history.
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So excited to share this is now up on the Princeton University Press website. **It isn't yet ready for pre-order, but you all will be the first to know. So bookmark it.**
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The Darkened Light of Faith | Princeton University Press
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My latest piece in Boston Review; have a look. Democracy Is a Habit: Practice It
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There are no bereavement days, so one has to grieve on a budget . That doesn't seem right, it doesn't seem to match the gravity of the moment. Sigh
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I was recently looking through Pettit's 97 book on republicanism. I was looking for references to I. M. Young. I was struck by the frequency with which she appeared and often at critical moments. It makes me wonder. Did we need the republican revival? Was Young not enough?
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Cambridge should be ashamed of themselves with this $99 prices for books. It is obscene in most cases, but especially so when you encounter a very good book and think it should be in the hands of more people.
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Woke up this morning and put the final touches on this proposal. This book will be much shorter, but I'm excited about it.
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Me: Isaiah it's bedtime and we are tired. (My fourth time back upstairs to answer him)
Isaiah: But daddy, I have a lot of questions about life.
Me: 🥺🥺, tomorrow Isaiah, we will talk about life tomorrow.
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Yes, Trump worked up his base. But please stop making it seem like these people were just caught in the enchantment of his words. He did not cast a spell. Choices were made. People need to be held responsible. There can be no healing (whatever that means) without justice!
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every generation has to accomplish democracy over again for itself ... its very nature is something that cannot be handed on from one generation to another, but has to be worked out in terms of needs and conditions of the social life of which we are a part.... J. DEWEY
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The Darkened Light of Faith drops on September 26th from Princeton University Press and I am hitting the road. 😀😀 More details will come as we get closer to events, but I hope some/all of you will join the discussions.
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Great Juneteenth is a federal holiday. But at some level the acknowledgement is pointless. We have a way of invoking history, while ignoring the demand it places on us now--on our actions and policies.
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Jamelle Bouie reading African American Political Thought: A Collected History in the New York Times.
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#BlackHistoryMonth
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Here is the link to the book:
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1/ Here is another blurb on the book, African American Political Thought: A Collected History. And this from Charles Mills no less: “For far too long, mainstream white American political theorists, whether in political science or political philosophy, have gotten away with the…
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Back in from playing in the snow. The convo with the five year old: Daddy, did you have fun? I did. See, told you snow is fun. (Wagging his finger) Told you daddy, you need me in your life. 😂🤣😂 This kid🤣🤣😂
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Last lecture done. What a ride: Sophocles, Socrates, Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Cugoano, Tocqueville, Stewart, Easton, Delany, Mill, Du Bois, and Young. All of the texts were wonderful, but I'm always moved by the power of Young's voice and the clarity of her vision.
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My 3 year old yesterday: "I love both of you, but I want to see other people now." 🤣😂😑🙁😂
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Isaiah and I read this three nights in a row. We love this book. It helps us both.
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