Author, Professor
Kris Sealey was born and raised in twin island Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. She currently resides in Southwestern Connecticut, and teaches philosophy at Penn State University. Her scholarship is in the areas of Critical Philosophy of Race, Caribbean Philosophy and Decolonial Theory, and has published in journals such as Critical Philosophy of Race, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy and Philosophy Today.
2022 Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista Outstanding Book Award Winner
Creolizing the Nation
Creolizing the Nation identifies the nation-form as a powerful resource for political struggles against colonialism, racism, and other manifestations of Western hegemony in the Global South even as it acknowledges the homogenizing effects of the politics of nationalism.
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Articles & Essays
Racial Capital’s “Social harvest”: Cedric J. Robinson’ s History of Black Oppositional Consciousness
This analysis of the Black experience of and resistance against capitalism grounds what Bedour Alagraa (in their review essay of Black Marxism) describes as Robinson’s “Sankofa project for our late capitalist moment.
Philosophy Shaped by the Autobiographical: An Interview with Kris Sealey
This article turns to a constellation of thinkers (Black feminists like Katherine McKittrick and Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, as well as decolonial thinkers like Sylvia Wynter) to read Mbembe’s conception of necropower in a way that retrieves…
Living plots in the stone-time of necropolitics
This article turns to a constellation of thinkers (Black feminists like Katherine McKittrick and Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, as well as decolonial thinkers like Sylvia Wynter) to read Mbembe’s conception of necropower in a way that retrieves…
In reciprocity, we fill our spirits as well as our bellies
In his essay, Dann J. Broyld offers the Underground Railroad…as a model for “untangling the threads of the Middle Passage from black world-making in the New World.” My focus, here, are on the geographies that are conducive to those…
When Heads Bang Together: Creolizing and Indigenous Identities in the Americas
In his essay, Dann J. Broyld offers the Underground Railroad…as a model for “untangling the threads of the Middle Passage from black world-making in the New World.” My focus, here, are on the geographies that are conducive to those…
“Other” by Kris Sealey
The racialization central to modernity orients otherness in terms of what is human, and what is, in some iteration, humanity’s “other”.
Humanizing the Landscape from the Edge(s) of Empire: Wakanda-Geographies of the Global South
In his essay, Dann J. Broyld offers the Underground Railroad…as a model for “untangling the threads of the Middle Passage from black world-making in the New World.” My focus, here, are on the geographies that are conducive to those…
‘Then’ and ‘Now’ of Mangrove Time: The Temporality of Lived Blackness in Octavia Butler’s Kindred
What does it mean to be linked to and intimately shaped through the Western Hemisphere’s history of anti-blackness? We find an answer to this question in the pivotal chapter of Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks, where he describes being…
[insert state], Goddam: Black struggle, Black freedom, Black futures
The minutes leading up to the jury’s verdict in Derek Chauvin’s trial were harrowing, in a historical sense. They are minutes that many of us will always remember. We’ll always be able to recall what we were doing and who we were with as…