Jasper St. Bernard is a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Rhodes College. His academic work currently focuses on African American philosophy, focusing primarily on the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His recently completed dissertation explored the anti-lynching work of Ida B. Wells-Barnett. While his work focuses on the social/political thought of black people during the lynching era, the topics he has written on have varied. In The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Implicit Cognition (2022), he co-wrote a chapter with Dr. Shaun Gallagher, "Race and the implicit aspects of embodied social interaction," exploring the role the body and early childhood have in the development of one's implicit biases. He also co-wrote an article with Dr. Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson, "'Just the Same as Fascism for Us': The Black Panther Party's Antifascist Thought and Praxis" (2023). He most recently joined a group of international thinkers in a book project, Ubuntu: Interdisciplinary Conversations Across Continents (2023), contributing a chapter titled "'To Shine the Light of Truth': Ubuntu and the Lynching Era in America."
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