George Yancy

Across Black Spaces (eBook, ePUB)

Essays and Interviews from an American Philosopher

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Across Black Spaces gathers and builds on a diverse array of essays and interviews by American philosopher and leading public intellectual George Yancy. Within this multidisciplinary framework are works from The New York Times, The Guardian, and other major media outletswhich have drawn international acclaim for their spotlight on vicious racial tensions in American academia and society at large.

With this collection of revised and updated works, Yancy engages a vast scope of social, political, historical, linguistic, and philosophical themes that together illustrate what it means to be Black in America. Four sections of the book engage, first, moral outrage at contemporary ethical crises; second, the search for identity and value of vulnerability; third, the history and present values of Black and Africana philosophy; and fourth, the essential role of African American language in understanding Black lived experience.

Representing twenty years of persistent inquiry and advocacy, Across Black Spaces celebrates Yancy's undeniable importance in American intellectual progress and essential social change.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538131633
• Artikelnr.: 58557744

Autorenporträt

George Yancy is the Samuel Candler Dobbs professor of philosophy at Emory University and a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College. Yancy has published over 250 combined scholarly articles, chapters, and interviews that have appeared in professional journals, books, and at various news sites. Yancy is known for his numerous essays and interviews in the New York Times' philosophy column The Stone, and Truthout. He is the author, editor and co-editor of over 25 books, including most recently Until Our Lungs Give Out: Conversations on Race, Justice, and the Future and In Sheep's Clothing: The Idolatry of White Christian Nationalism (coedited with philosopher Bill Bywater. Yancy is editor of the Philosophy of Race Book Series at Bloomsbury.

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