 The best way to close this section would be to discuss queer theory’s growing impact on Africana philosophy, but there is frustratingly little to say. Many studies outside of philosophy exhibit considerable philosophical depth, starting with the pioneering work of Cathy Cohen in political science and continuing with the work of figures like C. Riley  Snorton.[8]  I have to this point been willing, on the principled grounds noted above, to put card-carrying philosophers into conversation with thinkers outside the discipline; but the size of the gap between work inside and outside the field is so stark in this case that it deserves special comment.