Into the Fire

Through the presentation of various perspectives, this collection of essays addresses some of the intersections of race and communication. The topics addressed include, but are not limited to, how we communicate about race, what our race communicates to others, how we can do a better job of educating others on race-related issues, and how we can better define certain terms often utilized in conversations about race. The perspectives shared in this volume contribute much-needed depth to the discussion of the philosophical and practical considerations of race and communication, broadly.

Author Biography

Leland Harper received a PhD from the University of Birmingham (UK) and is currently Associate Professor of Philosophy at Siena Heights University. His areas of research include philosophy of religion, particularly issues in the epistemic status of religious experience, and philosophy of race, particularly issues in racism, racial solidarity and injustice. He is co-author (with Jennifer Kling) of ‘Racist, Not Racist, Antiracist: Language and the Dynamic Disaster of American Racism’ (Lexington, 2022), the author of ‘Multiverse Deism: Shifting Perspectives of God and the World’ (Lexington, 2020), as well as articles in ‘Res Philosophica, Forum Philosophicum, Global Discourse’, and ‘The International Journal of Philosophy and Theology’. He is also the editor of ‘The Crisis of American Democracy: Essays on a Failing Institution’ (Vernon, 2022) and the series editor of the Philosophy of Race series at Vernon Press. Dr. Harper’s work has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Carnegie Mellon Foundation, and the Heller Center for Arts and Humanities. He is the organizer of the Great Lakes Philosophy Conference, an annual international interdisciplinary conference, and the founder of Leland Harper Consulting, a Toronto-based consulting firm specializing in diversity, equity, inclusion and antiracism.