Paint the White House Black: Colloquium with Paul Taylor, January 8th
Department of Philosophy Colloquium Series
and
Ethnic Studies
presents
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Paint the White House Black:
The Obamas and the Aesthetics of Racial Transformation
Paul Taylor
Associate Professor of Philosophy and African American Studies
Head of the Department of African American Studies
Penn State University
Thursday, January 8, 4pm
202 Ford Alumni Center
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Paul C. Taylor is an associate professor of philosophy and African American studies at Pennsylvania State University, where he also serves as head of the department of African American studies. Professor Taylor earned a BA in philosophy from Morehouse College, a Ph.D. in philosophy from Rutgers University, and an MPA (master in public administration) from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He has provided commentary on race and politics for newspapers and radio shows on four continents, and has lectured at universities from Cape Town to Cornell. He is the author of Race: A Philosophical Introduction, and has just finished a book called Black is Beautiful: A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics for Blackwell. His current book project is On Obama, for Routledge’s Thinking In Action series.