FRANTZ FANON LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Grace is honored be named a recipient of The Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award for 2015 and thanks the Caribbean Philosophical Association for bestowing his honor upon her with co-recipient, Percy Mabogo More (Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Political Thought at the University of KwaZulu-Natal). From the press release: Grace Lee Boggs, 99, is a giant in the meeting of Afro-Caribbean, Chinese, and Marxist thought. She is an internationally known Chinese American philosopher (earning her PhD in philosophy from Bryn Mawr with a dissertation on George Herbert Mead), writer, and activist in Detroit with a thick FBI file given her long history of fighting for the humanity of disenfranchised peoples, especially those of color among the urban underclass, and her career of working with such luminaries as C.L.R. James and Raya Dunayevskaya. Rooted for 75 years in the labor, civil rights and Black Power movements, she challenges a new generation to throw off old assumptions and redefine revolution for our times. Says Jane Anna Gordon, President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association: “Creative philosopher, tenacious activist, and loving and imaginative fighter, the Caribbean Philosophical Association wants to express our appreciation to the inimitable Grace Lee Boggs whose tireless work of bridging communities, commitments, and ideas continued a legacy that preceded her and that we wish to nurture well into the future.”
Posted on: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 02:25:00 +0000
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