Kwame Anthony Appiah

K. Anthony Appiah teaches philosophy at Princeton. He is the author of Cosmopolitanism and Experiments in Ethics. He is working on a book about the role of honor in moral life. (November 2008)

From the Review

November 6, 2008: How Muslims Made Europe

God’s Crucible: Islam and the Making of Modern Europe, 570–1215 by David Levering Lewis

September 27, 2007: What Was Africa to Them?

The Door of No Return: The History of Cape Coast Castle and the Atlantic Slave Trade by William St Clair

Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787–2005 by James T. Campbell

Black Gold of the Sun: Searching for Home in Africa and Beyond by Ekow Eshun, with illustrations by Chris Ofili

American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era by Kevin K. Gaines

Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route by Saidiya Hartman

February 9, 2006: Whose Culture Is It?

November 4, 2004: The Election and America's Future

December 18, 2003: Into the Woods

Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales edited by Nelson Mandela

March 13, 2003: You Must Remember This

The Ethics of Memory by Avishai Margalit

June 27, 2002: What Garland Knew

The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter

April 11, 2002: The House of the Prophet

Martin Luther King Jr. by Marshall Frady

April 26, 2001: Equality of What?

Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality Ronald Dworkin

November 16, 2000: Dancing with the Moon

In the Arms of Africa:The Life of Colin M. Turnbull by Roy Richard Grinker

April 27, 2000: Battle of the Bien-Pensant

Critical Condition: Feminism at the Turn of the Century by Susan Gubar

December 17, 1998: Africa: The Hidden History

Africa: A Biography of the Continent by John Reader

March 5, 1998: 'The Multiculturalist Misunderstanding'

October 9, 1997: The Multiculturalist Misunderstanding

On Toleration by Michael Walzer

We Are All Multiculturalists Now by Nathan Glazer

April 24, 1997: The Arts of Africa

October 17, 1996: Censored in Palestine (letter)

June 20, 1996: The Marrying Kind

The Case for Same-Sex Marriage by William N. Eskridge Jr.

Virtually Normal: An Argument About Homosexuality by Andrew Sullivan

April 6, 1995: Slavery and the British Economy (letter)

January 12, 1995: How to Succeed in Business by Really Trying

Race and Culture: A World View by Thomas Sowell

Books by Kwame Anthony Appiah

Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race (1996)
Another Death in Venice (1995)
Identity Against Culture: Understandings of Multiculturalism (1994)
In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture (1992)
Avenging Angel (1991)
Necessary Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy (1989)
For Truth in Semantics (1986)
Assertion and Conditionals (1985)