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John H. McClendon III is a professor in the department of philosophy at
Michigan State University Michigan State University (Michigan State, MSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan. It was founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, the fi ...
. He holds a doctorate in philosophy from the
University of Kansas The University of Kansas (KU) is a public research university with its main campus in Lawrence, Kansas, United States, and several satellite campuses, research and educational centers, medical centers, and classes across the state of Kansas. Tw ...
, and taught at
Binghamton University The State University of New York at Binghamton (Binghamton University or SUNY Binghamton) is a public university, public research university with campuses in Binghamton, New York, Binghamton, Vestal, New York, Vestal, and Johnson City, New Yor ...
,
Eastern Illinois University Eastern Illinois University is a public university in Charleston, Illinois. Established in 1895 as the Eastern Illinois State Normal School, a teacher's college offering a two-year degree, Eastern Illinois University gradually expanded into a co ...
, University of Illinois Champaign/Urbana, Bates College, and the
University of Missouri The University of Missouri (Mizzou, MU, or Missouri) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus Universit ...
before coming to Michigan State University. His areas of focus include
African philosophy African philosophy is the philosophical discourse produced in Africa or by indigenous Africans. The term Africana philosophy covers the philosophy made by African descendants, including African Americans. African philosophers are found in the vari ...
, marxist philosophy, philosophy of African-American studies, and the history of African-American philosophers.


Contributions to philosophy

McClendon is the editor of the American Philosophical Association newsletter, ''Philosophy and the Black Experience''. He is an ex officio member of the Committee on Blacks in Philosophy—American Philosophical Association.Fayetteville University Documents
; accessed May 30, 2011. He has lectured widely throughout the country and abroad, and was the Charles Phelps Taft lecturer for the 35th anniversary of the University of Cincinnati's African-American Studies Department, the keynote speaker for Black History Month at Mississippi State University, and a faculty member for the Schomburg-Mellon Humanities Summer Institute.


Books

McClendon is the author or coauthor of: *''C. L. R. James's Notes on Dialectics: Left Hegelianism Or Marxism-Leninism?'' (Lexington Books, 2005) *''Beyond the White Shadow: Philosophy, Sports and the African American Experience'' (with Stephen Ferguson and Malik Simba, Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, 2012) *''Philosophy of Religion and the African American Experience: Conversations with my Christian Friends'' (Brill-Rodopi, 2017) *''African American Philosophers and Philosophy: An Introduction to the History, Concepts, and Contemporary Issues'' (with Stephen Ferguson, Bloomsbury, 2019) *''Black Christology and the Quest for Authenticity: A Philosophical Appraisal'' (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019)


See also

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American philosophy American philosophy is the activity, corpus, and tradition of philosophers affiliated with the United States. The ''Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy'' notes that while it lacks a "core of defining features, American Philosophy can nevert ...
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Black existentialism Black existentialism or Africana critical theory is a school of thought that "critiques domination and affirms the empowerment of Black people in the world".Magnus O. Bassey"What Is Africana Critical Theory or Black Existential Philosophy?" in: ''Jo ...
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Africana philosophy Africana philosophy is the work of philosophers of African descent and others whose work deals with the subject matter of the African diaspora. The name does not refer to a particular philosophy, philosophical system, method, or tradition. Rather ...
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List of African American philosophers Africana philosophy is the work of philosophers of African descent and others whose work deals with the subject matter of the African diaspora. The name does not refer to a particular philosophy, philosophical system, method, or tradition. Rathe ...
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List of American philosophers This is a list of American philosophers; of philosophers who are either from, or spent many productive years of their lives in the United States. {, border="0" style="margin:auto;" class="toccolours" , - ! {{MediaWiki:Toc , - , style="text-ali ...


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