Mukasa Mubirumusoke

Associate Professor of Africana Studies

Department

Intercollegiate Department of Africana Studies
Philosophy

Areas of Expertise

Continental Philosophy
Ethics and Moral Issues
Race & Social Problems

Biography

 

 

Education

BA Philosophy, Occidental College; MA Philosophy Boston College; PhD Philosophy Emory University

Research and Publications

The Death of God and the Faith of Antiblackness,” Journal of Political Theology, Vol. 26, no. 3 2025. pp. 284-296. Published Online 2023. 

“Prolegomena to any Future Cosmology,” Philosophy Today, Vol. 66, no. 1, 2022, pp. 39-55.

“Rapping Honestly: NaS, Nietzsche, and the Moral Prejudices of Truth,” Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 30, no. 2, 2016, pp. 175-203.

“Gleaming the Cube or Destroying the World,” Skateboarding and Philosophy: Essays on the Life of Grind. Jefferson: McFarland Press, 2025  

Introduction to White Stupidity: Philosophy 101,Dave Chappelle and Philosophy: When Keeping It Wrong Gets Real. Chicago: Carus Books, 2020.

Black Existentialism and Phenomenology,” Encyclopedia of Phenomenology, ed. Ted Toadvine and Nicolas de Warren. New York: Springer, Published Online 2023.

"How 'White Privilege' Obscures Black Vulnerability", https://publicseminar.org/essays/how-white-privilege-obscures-black-vulnerability/. Published Onine 2021. 

"Zong!'s Untelling: Minor Literature and Risk" in Politics and Minor Literature: Transcultural Intervention in Deleuze and Guattari's Account of Minor Literature, ed. Mubirumusoke, M; Nemli, O; Boston: Brill, 2025 

Politics and Minor Literature: Transcultural Intervention in Deleuze and Guattari's Account of Minor Literature, ed. Mubirumusoke, M; Nemli, O; Boston: Brill, 2025 

Black Hospitality: A Theoretical Framework for Black Ethical Life, Palgrave MacMillan, 2022.