Black Men from behind the Veil (eBook, PDF)

Ontological Interrogations
Redaktion: Yancy, George

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Black male scholars within this important book are painfully aware that the brutal murder of George Floyd was not due to a few "bad apples." They understand that they are perceived as "threats" and "criminals" within a distorted white imaginary that is embedded with processes of mythopoetic construction, racial capitalism, and a deep anti-Black male social ontology. Edited by prominent philosopher George Yancy, Black Men from behind the Veil: Ontological Interrogations emphasizes the importance of Black male epistemic agency and the courage to speak the truth regarding an America that values Black male life on the cheap and that attempts to control the movement of Black men, their capacity to breathe, and their being through anti-Black technologies of surveillance, confinement, policing, and white nation-building. There is no single monolithic Black male voice that dominates this crucial and necessary text. Each voice speaks of pain behind the Veil, revealing narrative specificity and an important recursive truth: Black men, within the white American psyche, are both necessary and yet disposable. The existential and sociohistorical weight of this truth is made painfully clear through the voices of these Black men.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978754034
• Artikelnr.: 74849895

Autorenporträt

George Yancy is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy at Emory University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Speaking Behind and To the Veil
George Yancy
1.Incarcerating Blackness: My Nephew, His Letter from an Arizona Prison,
Our Reflections
William David Hart
2.Philosophy as Excited Delirium and the Credibility Deficit of the Black
Male
Clevis Headley
3.Emmett Till's Body
A. Todd Franklin
4.The War on Blackness: Black Men and the State of the Union
Arnold L. Farr
5.Blues Sons and Sorrow's Kitchen
Houston A. Baker, Jr.
6.Disaggregating Death: George Floyd and the Significance of Black Male
Mortality in Police Encounters
Tommy J. Curry
7.Theory, Epistemic Failure, and the Problem of (Hue)Man Suffering
Timothy J. Golden
8.What's Happening Brother?
Josiah Ulysses Young III
9.To be Over-Determined from Without: Negotiating White Supremacy from
Corporeal Blackness
Linden F. Lewis
10.Navigating the Aguala: Blackness, Shamans and Drag Queens
Sterlin Mosley
11.Power, Divorce, and Trauma: Law and Loss
Floyd W. Hayes III
12.Black Subversive Memory and a Blac