
Assistant Professor of Black Political Thought University of Toronto @UofT @UofT_PolSci
Joined June 2009
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Derefe Chevannes’s research examines what Black freedom requires in practice — and what happens when societies fall short of it.
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Canada celebrates multiculturalism.
Black males experience disposability.
My new article shows how Canadian institutions systematically construct Black males as unruly, unteachable, criminal, and incompetent.
Published in Philosophy & Social Criticism (2026).
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NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!!
#Against #American #Ethnic #Democracy: White Rule and Black Rebellion
By @Kimarley
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Against American Ethnic Democracy: White Rule and Black Rebellion - cup.org/3HmYcji
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We are delighted to introduce and welcome @UofTArtSci @UofT_PolSci newest faculty members @UofT! @Kimarley #welcome #newfaculty
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#Scholarship Claudia Jones & the Critique of Self-Determination: Toward Human Liberation by Derefe Kimarley Chevannes, part of The Claudia Jones Special Issue (2014): tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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SYMPOSIUM: ASIAN/AMERICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT
@theory_event, Number 45, October 2024
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This symposium is the first on Asian American Political Thought in Political Science.
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Now on FirstView ft. @kimarley!
"At the core of the dialectical method is a contrast of contradictions between thesis (European thought) and antithesis (Africana thought) to generate a third, synthetic phenomenon: human philosophical thought."
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Check out my latest article on Africana Political Theory!
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Africana Political Theory as Decolonial Critique - cup.org/4e0Hm4o
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In #FirstView by @Kimarley : "Black Lives Matter Toward Afromodernity: Political Speech, Barbarism, and the Euromodern World" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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UConn IIREP at 2022 @caribphil Summer School
Greg Doukas (U. Memphis; left), Vialcary Crisóstomo Tejada (Earlham College; center), and Derefe Chevannes (U. Memphis; right)
Reading Afro-Caribbean poet Monica Minott @mint99wm. Scintillating! Beautiful cover art by @hiddenbluegem what's your favorite poem?
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New #FirstView article: "The Laboring of Black Politics: Decolonial Meditations on Claudia Jones" by Derefe Chevannes (@uofmemphis). #polisciresearch, @PSfindings doi.org/10.1177/106591292097…
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