Chike Jeffers

Education

• Ph.D in Philosophy (2010) Northwestern University; Dissertation: The Black Gift: Cultural Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Africana Philosophy
• B.A. Honours in Philosophy (w/minor in Film Studies) (2004) York University
  

Selected Publications

Books:

What is Race? Four Philosophical Views, co-written with Joshua Glasgow, Sally Haslanger, and Quayshawn Spencer (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019)

Edited Books:

Listening to Ourselves: A Multilingual Anthology of African Philosophy (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2013).

Articles:

• "Anna Julia Cooper and the Black Gift Thesis,"  History of Philosophy Quarterly 33 (January 2016):79-97
  
• "The Ethics and Politics of Cultural Preservation," The Journal of Value Inquiry 49 (March 2015): 205-220
  
• “Appiah’s Cosmopolitanism,”  The Southern Journal of Philosophy 51 (December 2013):488-510.
• "A Westian Vision of the Role of Black Philosophy," The Black Scholar 43 (Winter 2013):24-31.
  
• “Embodying Justice in Ancient Egypt: The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant as a Classic of Political Philosophy,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 21 (May 2013): 421-442.
• “The Cultural Theory of Race: Yet Another Look at Du Bois’s “The Conservation of Races,”” Ethics 123 (April 2013): 403-426.
• “Do We Need African Canadian Philosophy?” Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review/Revue canadienne de philosophie 51 (December 2012): 643-666.

Book Chapters:

• "Rights, Race, and the Beginnings of Modern Africana Philosophy," in Paul C. Taylor, Linda Martin Alcoff and Luvell Anderson (eds.), The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Race (New York: Routledge, 2017) 127-139.
• "Du Bois, Appiah, and Outlaw on Racial Identity," in Naomi Zack (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Race, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), 204-213.
  
• W.E.B. Du Bois' "Whither Now and Why," in Eric Schliesser (ed.), Ten Neglected Classics of Philosophy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017) 222-254
• “Should Black Kids Avoid Wearing Hoodies?” in George Yancy and Janine Jones (eds.), Pursuing Trayvon Martin: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Manifestations of Racial Dynamics (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2012), 129-140.