B. Anthony Bogues is a Caribbean political theorist, intellectual historian, writer and curator and currently Director of the Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice at

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

and the Asa Messer Professor of Humanities and Critical Theory. He was an Honorary Research Professor at the

University of Cape Town The University of Cape Town (UCT) ( af, Universiteit van Kaapstad, xh, Yunibesithi ya yaseKapa) is a public research university in Cape Town, South Africa. Established in 1829 as the South African College, it was granted full university statu ...

and is currently a visiting professor and curator at the Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Center,

University of Johannesburg The University of Johannesburg (UJ) is a public university located in Johannesburg, South Africa. The University of Johannesburg came into existence on 1 January 2005 as the result of a merger between the Rand Afrikaans University (RAU), the Te ...

. He is also a Visiting professor of African and African Diaspora Thought at the Free University of Amsterdam ( VU ) In 2012, Bogues was also the Distinguished Faculty Fellow, Marta Sutton Weeks Distinguished Visitor at

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

. He has written extensively on African and African Diaspora political theory and intellectual history, including works on

C. L. R. James Cyril Lionel Robert James (4 January 1901 – 31 May 1989),Fraser, C. Gerald, ''The New York Times'', 2 June 1989. who sometimes wrote under the pen-name J. R. Johnson, was a Trinidadian historian, journalist and Marxist. His works are in ...

Sylvia Wynter ''The Honourable'' Sylvia Wynter, O.J. (Holguín, Cuba, 11 May 1928) is a Jamaican novelist, /sup> dramatist, /sup> critic, philosopher, and essayist. /sup> Her work combines insights from the natural sciences, the humanities, art, and anti-co ...

and

George Lamming George William Lamming OCC (8 June 19274 June 2022) was a Barbadian novelist, essayist, and poet. He first won critical acclaim for '' In the Castle of My Skin'', his 1953 debut novel. He also held academic posts, including as a distinguished ...

. Bogues curates and writes about

Haitian art Haitian art is a complex tradition, reflecting African roots with strong Indigenous, American and European aesthetic and religious influences. It is an important representation of Haitian culture and history. Many artists cluster in "schools" of ...

, and he was the curator of ''The Art of Haiti: Loas, History and Memory'', an exhibition at Colorado Springs Museum (February 10, 2018–May 20, 2018).

Education

Bogues has a PhD Political Theory, from the

University of the West Indies The University of the West Indies (UWI), originally University College of the West Indies, is a public university system established to serve the higher education needs of the residents of 17 English-speaking countries and territories in th ...

, Mona (1994).

Books

* ''Caliban's Freedom: Early Political Thought of CLR James'' (Pluto Press, 1997) * ''Black Heretics, Black Prophets: Radical Political Intellectuals'' (Routledge, 2003) * ''After Man: The Critical Thought of Sylvia Wynter'' (Ian Randle Press, 2006) * ''Empire of Liberty: Freedom Power and Desire'' (Dartmouth College Press, 2010) * ''The Aesthetics of Decolonization: The George Lamming Reader'' (Ian Randle Press, 2011) * ''From Revolution in the Tropics to Imagined Landscape: The Art of Edouard Duval Carrie'' (Perez Art Museum, 2014) * ''Metamorphosis: The Art of Edouard Duval Carrie'' (Miami Contemporary Art Museum, 2018) * ''The Art of Haiti: Loas, History and Memory'' (Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 2019)

References

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