George Yancy (USA Emory University)

Across Black Spaces

Essays and Interviews from an American Philosopher

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Produktbeschreibung

Across Black Spaces gathers a diverse array of essays and interviews by American philosopher George Yancy. Within this multidisciplinary framework are a series of public intellectual essays that drew international media acclaim for their spotlight on vicious racial tensions in American academia and society at large.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781538131626
• ISBN-10: 1538131625
• Artikelnr.: 57751755

Autorenporträt

George Yancy is the Samuel Candler Dobbs professor of philosophy at Emory University and a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College. He is the author, editor, and coeditor of over 20 books and known for his national and international influential essays and interviews at the New York Times, "The Stone."

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Writing While Black: Bearing the Weight of Public Witnessing
Chapter 1: The Ugly Truth of Being a Black Professor in America
Chapter 2: Discussing the Backlash to "Dear White America"
With Scott Jaschik at Inside Higher Ed
Chapter 3: Is White America Ready to Confront its Racism and be in Crisis?
With Alex Blasdel at The Guardian
Chapter 4: Walking While Black in the White Gaze
Chapter 5: It Feels Like Being on Death Row
Chapter 6: Blackface: What Does it Says about White America?
Chapter 7: Look in the Disagreeable Mirror: Rethinking Black History for
White People
Chapter 8: King's Dream or Trump's Nightmare?
Chapter 9: Is Your God Dead?: A Question from the Underground
Chapter 10: Being a Dangerous Professor and Refusing to be Adjusted
Part 2 Untying Odysseus: Traversing Black Philosophical Fragments
Chapter 11: Philosophy as a Practice of Suffering
With H. A. Nethery
Chapter 12: Musings: On Autobiography and Africana Philosophy
With Azuka Nzegwu
Chapter 13: Thinking About Race, History, and Identity
With Maria del Guadalupe Davidson
Part 3 Doing Philosophy in Black: Foundational Traces and the Weight of the
Present
Chapter 14: African-American Philosophy: Through the Lens of
Socio-Existential Struggle
Chapter 15: Thomas Nelson Baker, Sr.: On the Power of Black Aesthetic
Ideals
Chapter 16: Gilbert Haven Jones: Early Black Philosopher and Educator
Chapter 17: Joyce Mitchell Cook: Autobiographical and Philosophical
Fragments
Chapter 18: The Pain and Promise of Being Black Women in Philosophy
With Anita L. Allen at "The Stone," New York Times
Chapter 19: Hateful Speech: The Perils of Being a Black Philosopher
With Brad Evans at "The Stone," New York Times
Part 4 Meaning-Making and the Generative Space of Black Performative
Discourse
Chapter 20: The Scholar Who Coined the Term Ebonics: A Conversation with
Robert L. Williams
Chapter 21: Geneva Smitherman: The Social Ontology of African-American
Language, the Power of Nommo, and the Dynamics of Resistance and Identity
Through Language
Chapter 22: Socially Grounded Ontology and Epistemological Agency: James G.
Spady's Search for the Marvelous/Imaginative Within the Expansive and
Expressive Domain of Rap Music and Hip Hop Self-Consciousness