Publications

2026 250 Years Towards Racial Justice: Progress, Promise, and Challenges Melvin L. Rogers · Scholar only — 2026 The Luminosity of Faith: A Response to my Readers Melvin L. Rogers · The Review of Politics · Scholar only — 2025 David Walker: The Politics of Racial Egalitarianism. By Sherrow O. Pinder. New Jersey: Polity Press, 2024. 224pp. £55.00 cloth, £17.99 paper. Melvin L. Rogers · Perspectives on Politics · Scholar only — 2025 The Politics of Racial Egalitarianism Melvin L. Rogers · PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICS · Scholar only — 2024 Black Individualism, Black Communalism, and Conceptual Adequacy Melvin L. Rogers · American Political Thought · Scholar only 2 2024 James Baldwin on Racial Progress Without Redemption Melvin L. Rogers · Philosophy of Education · Scholar only 2 2021 African American Political Thought: A Collected History Melvin L. Rogers · University of Chicago Press 44 2021 Angela Y. Davis: Abolitionism, Democracy, Freedom Melvin L. Rogers · African American political thought: A collected history · Scholar only 11 2021 Audre Lorde’s politics of difference Melvin L. Rogers · African American Political Thought · Scholar only 13 2021 Booker T. Washington and the Politics of Deception Melvin L. Rogers · African American Political Thought: A Collected History · Scholar only 15 2021 David Walker: Citizenship, Judgment, Freedom, and Solidarity Melvin L. Rogers · African American Political Thought: A Collected History, eds. Melvin Rogers and Jack Turner (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021): 52-76 3 2021 Political Theorizing in Black: An Introduction Melvin L. Rogers · African American Political Thought: A Collected History, eds. Melvin Rogers and Jack Turner (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021): 1-29 11 2021 WEB Du Bois: Afro-Modernism, Expressivism and the Curse of Centrality Melvin L. Rogers · African American Political Thought: A Collected History · Scholar only 14 2020 Protecting democracy during COVID-19 Melvin L. Rogers · APO: Analysis & Policy Observatory · Scholar only 2 2020 Race, Domination, and Republicanism Melvin L. Rogers · Difference without Domination: On Justice and Democracy in Conditions of Diversity, ed. Danielle Allen and Rohini Somanathan (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020): 59-90 40 2020 The Enduring Insight of John Dewey Melvin L. Rogers · Knight Founda tion · Scholar only 1 2020 We Should Be Afraid, But Not of the Protesters Melvin L. Rogers · Boston Review 8 2018 Democracy is a Habit: Practice It Melvin L. Rogers · Boston Review 10 2018 The Many Dimensions of Black Panther Melvin L. Rogers · Dissent — 2017 Keeping the Faith: Review of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ We Were Eight Years In Power Melvin L. Rogers · Boston Review — 2017 White Identity and Terror in America: Thinking about the Events of Charlottesville Melvin L. Rogers · Public Seminar — 2017 White Supremacy, Fear and the Crises of Legitimation: Reflections on the mistrial in the murder case of Walter Scott and the election of Donald Trump Melvin L. Rogers · Public Seminar 1 2016 Introduction to Melvin L. Rogers · The public and its problems: An essay in political inquiry · Scholar only 71 2016 On Diamond Reynolds after Dallas Melvin L. Rogers · Public Seminar — 2016 The Public and Its Problems Melvin L. Rogers · Swallow Press/Ohio University Press · needs review — 2016 What Good is History for African Americans? Melvin L. Rogers · Boston Review — 2015 David Walker and the Political Power of the Appeal Melvin L. Rogers · Political Theory 43 2015 Race and Dignity: Freedom Can’t Be Left to Chance Melvin L. Rogers · Boston Review — 2015 Review of Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (published in long and short form) Melvin L. Rogers — 2015 Social Equality and the Afterlife of White Supremacy Melvin L. Rogers · The Contemporary Condition — 2014 Ferguson and the Tragic Presence of the Past Melvin L. Rogers · Theory and Event — 2014 Introduction: Disposable Lives Melvin L. Rogers · Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) · Scholar only 29 2014 Race and the Democratic Aesthetic: Jefferson, Whitman, and Holiday on the Hopeful and the Horrific Melvin L. Rogers · Radical Future Past: Untimely Essays in Political Theory, eds. Mark Reinhardt, George Shulman, and Rom Coles (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2014): 249-282 · needs review — 2013 Review of Contemporary Pragmatism, Volume 8, Issue 2, December 2011, Special Issue on “Obama and Pragmatism” Melvin L. Rogers · Transactions of Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal In American Philosophy — 2012 Obama and Pragmatism ed. by Mark Sanders and Colin Koopman (review) Melvin L. Rogers · Transactions of the Charles S Peirce Society · Scholar only — 2012 Obama and Pragmatism Mark Sanders and Colin Koopman, eds Melvin L. Rogers · Transactions of the Charles S Peirce Society · Scholar only — 2012 The People, Rhetoric, and Affect: On the Political Force of Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk Melvin L. Rogers · American Political Science Review 90 2012 The Public and Its Problems Melvin L. Rogers · Pennsylvania State University Press · needs review — 2012 The public and its problems: An essay in political inquiry Melvin L. Rogers · Scholar only · needs review 6 2011 The Fact of Sacrifice and Necessity of Faith: Dewey and the Ethics of Democracy Melvin L. Rogers · Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 10 2010 Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race Melvin L. Rogers · The Journal of Speculative Philosophy · Scholar only · needs review — 2010 Democracy, Piety, and Faith: A Reading of Dewey’s Religious Outlook Melvin L. Rogers · Secular Faith, eds. Vincent Lloyd and Elliot Ratzman (Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2010): 126-152 — 2010 John Dewey and His Vision of Democracy Melvin L. Rogers · Contemporary Pragmatism 46 2010 Review of George Yancy, Black Bodies, White Gazes Melvin L. Rogers · Journal of Speculative Philosophy · needs review — 2010 Revisiting The Public and Its Problems Melvin L. Rogers · Contemporary Pragmatism — 2009 Democracy, Elites and Power: John Dewey Reconsidered Melvin L. Rogers · Contemporary Political Theory 52 2009 Dewey, Pluralism, and Democracy: A Response to Robert Talisse Melvin L. Rogers · Transactions of the Charles Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal In American Philosophy 21 2009 Dewey, Pluralism, and Democracy: A Response to Robert Talisse: TalisseRobert B. Pragmatist philosophy of democracy Melvin L. Rogers · Scholar only — 2009 Re-reading Honneth: Exodus Politics and the Paradox of Recognition Melvin L. Rogers · European Journal of Political Theory 43 2009 The Undiscovered Dewey: Religion Melvin L. Rogers · Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy · Scholar only 16