Kwame Anthony Appiah

K. Anthony Appiah
K. Anthony Appiah by David Levine

K. Anthony Appiah teaches philosophy at Princeton. He is the author of The Ethics of Identity and Cosmopolitanism. He has recently edited Buying Freedom: The Ethics and Economics of Slave Redemption with Martin Bunzl. (September 2007)

From the Review

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)