Tommie Shelby is the Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy at Harvard University. He is the author of We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity (2005) and coeditor of Hip Hop and Philosophy: Rhyme 2 Reason (2005). His writings focus on questions of racial and economic justice and on the history of black political thought, and his articles have appeared in such journals as Philosophy & Public Affairs, Ethics, Political Theory, Critical Inquiry, Du Bois Review, and Daedalus. He is currently writing a book on race and urban poverty, tentatively entitled "Justice and the Dark Ghetto."