Winston Van Horne
Professor Emeritus
Mitchell Hall, 210
(414) 229-5083
wvh@uwm.edu
Degree:
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Research Interests:
Socrates and King in Jail: Justice and Law; conceptual foundations of Africology; Does America Dream in Color: Images and Symbols of Race in Modern America; The Classroom: In Fear of Our Colleagues; The Two Faces of Booker T. Washington: Ennobling Self-Help and Indiscriminate Flattery; race, ethnicity and nationalism in the 20th century; relationship between ethnicity and public policy; relation between death and political resistance.
Teaching Interests:
Politics and political philosophy in African-Americans and the Afroworld.
Selected Courses Offered:
Undergraduate
Introduction to African-American History to 1865
Introduction to African-American History, 1865 to the Present
History of Political Theory (three courses, from Plato to Camus)
Political Science and Political Theory
African-American Political Philosophy
Black Politics
Seminar in Urban Problems
Urban Violence
Order and Disorder: The Quest for Social Justice
Graduate
Analytic Political Theory
Contemporary Political Theorizing: Conceptual
Selected Texts in Political Theory
Tradition in Black Political Thought
Selected Publications:
“Africology: Considerations Concerning a Discipline,” in Contemporary Africana Theory, Thought and Action Clenora Hudson-Weems, ed. (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, Inc., 2007), pp. 105-127.
“The Concept of Black Power: Its Continued Relevance,” Journal of Black Studies, Vol. XXXVII, No. 3, January, 2007.
“Three Concepts of Legitimacy,” in Law, Culture & Africana Studies, James L. Conyers, Jr., ed. (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2008), pp. 47-55.
“Africology,” in Encyclopedia of Black Studies, Molefi Kete Asante and Ama Mazama, eds. (Thousand Oaks. London. New Deli: Sage Publications, 2005), pp. 59-61.
“Black Studies: Names Controversy,” in Encyclopedia of Black Studies, Molefi Asante and Ama Mazama, eds. (Thousand Oaks. London. New Deli: Sage Publications, 2005), pp. 158-160.
Winston A. Van Horne, ed., Global Convulsions: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism at the End of the Twentieth Century (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1997).
“From Sinners to Saints: The Confessions of Saint Augustine and Malcolm X.” The Journal of Religious Thought, Vol. XLIII,No. 1, Spring-Summer, 1986.
“St. Augustine: Death and Political Resistance,” The Journal of Religious Thought, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 2, Fall-Winter,1981-82. Abstracted in Religious Index One: Periodicals, Fall, 1982.
“Prolegomenon to a Theory of Deception,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. XLII, No. 2, December, 1981. Abstracted in The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. XXXV, No. 4, June, 1982.
“Deception: Considerations on Strategies and Tactics,” The Afro World: Adventures in Ideas, O.R. Dathorne, ed., (special issue) Journal of Caribbean Studies, Vol. IV, Nos. 2 & 3, Winter, 1984.