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Black Dignity: The Moral Vocabulary of Black Lives Matter

The recent racial justice protests represent not only an intensification and broadening of longstanding anti-racist activism. They represent the introduction to mainstream political discourse of a new moral vocabulary, one that unequivocally centers Blackness, transforms how we understand dignity, and orients the virtues to struggle. With reference to the French and US contexts, Norman Ajari and Vincent Lloyd will discuss what is new and what is old in the moral vocabulary of today’s racial justice movements.

Norman Ajari
Philosophy
Villanova University

Vincent Lloyd
Theology and Religious Studies
Africana Studies Program
Villanova University

Additional Resources

Vincent Lloyd, -Human Dignity is Black Dignity https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/human-dignity-is-black-dignity/

--The End of the World https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/responses/the-end-of-the-world-reflections-from-black-activism

--The Work of Mourning and the Privilege of Black Death https://www.abc.net.au/religion/vincent-lloyd-the-privilege-of-black-deaths/12357138

-- Break Every Yoke: Religion, Justice and the Abolition of Prisons (co-authored with Joshua Dubler), Oxford University Press https://global.oup.com/academic/product/break-every-yoke-9780190949150?cc=us&lang=en&#

-- Black Dignity: A Philosophy, forthcoming from Yale University Press