This poet is at home with philosophy, astronomy, astute observations of popular culture and places (especially Iowa, with poems that will become classics) and satiric probes of various forms of cultural madness, and he conveys great passion in his love poems. With this book he will win new friends, admirers, and others who will be, like me, making lists of their favorites.

Channeling the rhythms and the logic, the sense and the nonsense of domains as vast and varied as quantum physics, mid-century mass culture, the insides of a crayon box and the storehouse of personal memory, Black and White Coloring Book takes on the project of decoding the modern American experience in all of its hilarity, despair and fleeting human connection.

The Black Book: Wittgenstein and Race attempts to highlight the importance of Ludwig Wittgenstein's work for contemporary African American and Africana philosophy. Richard A. Jones argues that Wittgenstein's early Tractarian views on logical atomism and his later more holistic views from his work Philosophical Investigations are exceedingly relevant to African American philosophy. The Black Book investigates the epistemic, linguistic, and political grounds from which inspiration might be drawn. Ultimately, as philosophy attempts to redefine itself in a postmodern discourse where it has been...

The Black Book: Wittgenstein and Race attempts to highlight the importance of Ludwig Wittgenstein's work for contemporary African American and Africana philosophy. Richard A. Jones argues that Wittgenstein's early Tractarian views on logical atomism and his later more holistic views from his work Philosophical Investigations are exceedingly relevant to African American philosophy. The Black Book investigates the epistemic, linguistic, and political grounds from which inspiration might be drawn. Ultimately, as philosophy attempts to redefine itself in a postmodern discourse where it has been...

Postmodern Racial Dialectics is a collection of ten essays on African American philosophy. Addressing issues as disparate as why there are no graduate programs in philosophy at the more than one hundred traditionally black colleges and universities in the U.S.--to conceptions of Black utopianism--to the nature of postmodern revolutions, these essays are beyond the bounds of traditional racial discourse. The essays are dialectical in the sense that they are conversations between personal histories, between ideologies, and between changing ways that the races talk to one another. The book is...

Reading this book is comparable to sitting across the table from a trusted mentor. Rich takes his professional experiences and anecdotes and translates them to actionable suggestions for emerging and even seasoned leaders. There are many takeaways from this leadership primer, but most impactful is Rich's steadfast belief in "leading from your chair" and embracing your subject matter expertise as your key to providing value to your organization. It's a smart strategy. I also like the way Rich doesn't shy from conflict and mistakes - he addresses them head on as opportunities for all of us to...

This collection of ten essays on African American philosophy addresses a wide range of issues beyond the bounds of traditional racial discourse. The essays are dialectical in the sense that they are conversations between personal histories, between ideologies, and between changing ways that the races talk to one another.