 What Gordon calls “African American analytical philosophy” (2008, 110) deserves special mention here, as it brings tools from the dominant philosophical paradigm in the Anglophone world to bear on Africana thought’s distinctive themes, issues, and figures. Mills and Shelby, who join Gordon in the top tier of Africana philosophy’s most visible and influential figures, work squarely and creatively in the ethico-political wing of this tradition, building on the work of founders like Boxill and Appiah with results that will receive further consideration below. Similar inroads are becoming apparent in aesthetics (Taylor 2016), epistemology (Dotson 2017), philosophy of language (Anderson 2015), and other fields.