finds an irony in the conception that if the source of the West lies in ancient Egypt via Greece, then "its legacy of ethnocentrism is presumably one of our moral liabilities." In popular culture In 2007, Appiah was a contributing scholar in the PBS-broadcast documentary Prince Among Slaves produced by Unity Productions Foundation. In 2007 he also appeared in the TV documentary series Racism: A History as an on-screen contributor. Appiah appeared alongside a number of contemporary philosophers in Astra Taylor's 2008 film Examined Life, discussing his views on cosmopolitanism. In 2009, he was an on-screen contributor to the movie Herskovits: At the Heart of Blackness. In 2015, he became one of three contributors to the New York Times Magazine column "The Ethicist", before assuming sole authorship of the column later that year. He delivered the BBC's Reith Lectures in late 2016 on the theme of Mistaken Identities. In late 2016, he contended that Western civilization did not exist, and argued that many uniquely Western attributes and values were instead shared among many "non-western" cultures and/or eras. In 2018, Appiah appeared in the episode "Can We Live Forever?" of the documentary series Explained. Awards and honours Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for In My Father's House, April 1993 Honorable Mention, James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association for In My Father's House, December 1993 1993 Herskovits Award of the African Studies Association "for the best work published in English on Africa", for In My Father's House, December 1993 Annual Book Award, 1996, North American Society for Social Philosophy, "for the book making the most significant contribution to social philosophy" for Color Conscious, May 1997 Ralph J. Bunche Award, American Political Science Association, "for the best scholarly work in political science which explores the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural pluralism" for Color Conscious, July 1997 Outstanding Book on the subject of human rights in North America, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America, for Color Conscious, 10 December 1997 Elected member of the American Philosophical Society Honorable Mention, Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights for The Ethics of Identity, 9 December 2005 Editors' Choice New York Times Book Review, The Ethics of Identity, 26 June 2005. Amazon.com Best Books of 2005, Top 10 Editors' Picks: Nonfiction, The Ethics of Identity, December 2005 Arthur Ross Book Award