I am currently working on a manuscript, The Ethics of Racial Humor (Oxford University Press), in which I take up questions like: When is humor racist? How should one navigate racial satire? How can one know when one is laughing with rather than laughing at the performer of racial humor? Can one make use of racial insults to successfully perform humor?
I am also working on The Philosophy of Race and Racism: The Basics (Routledge), an introduction to basic issues in the philosophy of race.
Finally, I am co-editing (with Ernie Lepore) the Oxford Handbook of Applied Philosophy of Language (Oxford University Press). Our aim with this volume is to focus on the central terrain, passing over other interesting topics that emerge from the interaction of the philosophy of language with other fields. The volume focuses on topics such as appropriation, pornography, dehumanizing speech, dog whistles, taboo, implicit bias, speech acts, and the ethics of communication. Our main aim is to stimulate discussion with thought-provoking essays by leading and emerging philosophers in analytic and continental traditions, as well as figures from psychology and sociolinguistics.