Dr. John H. McClendon III is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Michigan State University. His areas of interests include: African American philosophers and philosophical traditions; African philosophy, Marxism, philosophy of sports and the African American experience as well as philosophy of religion and African Americans. He is the author of C. L. R. James’s Notes on Dialectics: Left-Hegelianism or Marxism-Leninism (Lexington Books, 2005) and Beyond the White Shadow: Philosophy, Sports, and the African-American Experience, which he co-authored with Dr. Stephen C. Ferguson II (Kendall Hunt, 2012). He is Co-editor of the African American philosophy series for Brill Publishers, Co-editor of the American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy of the Black Experience, a Consulting Editor of the Journal of the American Philosophical Association, Advisory Board Member of Blackpast.Org, serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the journal, Cultural Logic and the Editorial Board of the Journal on African Philosophy.
E-mail: mcclen21@msu.edu