Backlash

Backlash
Author: George Yancy
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2018-04-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1538104067

When George Yancy penned a New York Times op-ed entitled “Dear White America” asking white Americans to confront the ways that they benefit from racism, he knew his article would be controversial. But he was unprepared for the flood of vitriol in response. The resulting blowback played out in the national media, with critics attacking Yancy in every form possible—including death threats—and supporters rallying to his side. Despite the rhetoric of a “post-race” America, Yancy quickly discovered that racism is still alive, crude, and vicious in its expression. In Backlash, Yancy expands upon the original article and chronicles the ensuing controversy as he seeks to understand what it was about the op-ed that created so much rage among so many white readers. He challenges white Americans to rise above the vitriol and to develop a new empathy for the African American experience.

Black Bodies, White Gazes

Black Bodies, White Gazes
Author: George Yancy
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2016-11-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1442258357

Following the deaths of Trayvon Martin and other black youths in recent years, students on campuses across America have joined professors and activists in calling for justice and increased awareness that Black Lives Matter. In this second edition of his trenchant and provocative book, George Yancy offers students the theoretical framework they crave for understanding the violence perpetrated against the Black body. Drawing from the lives of Ossie Davis, Frantz Fanon, Malcolm X, and W. E. B. Du Bois, as well as his own experience, and fully updated to account for what has transpired since the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, Yancy provides an invaluable resource for students and teachers of courses in African American Studies, African American History, Philosophy of Race, and anyone else who wishes to examine what it means to be Black in America.

Look, A White!

Look, A White!
Author: George Yancy
Publisher: Temple University Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2012-05-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1439908559

Look, a White! returns the problem of whiteness to white people. Prompted by Eric Holder's charge, that as Americans, we are cowards when it comes to discussing the issue of race, noted philosopher George Yancy's essays map out a structure of whiteness. He considers whiteness within the context of racial embodiment, film, pedagogy, colonialism, its "danger," and its position within the work of specific writers. Identifying the embedded and opaque ways white power and privilege operate, Yancy argues that the Black countergaze can function as a "gift" to whites in terms of seeing their own whiteness more effectively. Throughout Look, a White! Yancy pays special attention to the impact of whiteness on individuals, as well as on how the structures of whiteness limit the capacity of social actors to completely untangle the way whiteness operates, thus preventing the erasure of racism in social life.

African-American Philosophers

African-American Philosophers
Author: George Yancy
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1998
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780415921008

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Reframing the Practice of Philosophy

Reframing the Practice of Philosophy
Author: George Yancy
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1438440030

This daring and bold book is the first to create a textual space where African American and Latin American philosophers voice the complex range of their philosophical and meta-philosophical concerns, approaches, and visions. The voices within this book protest and theorize from their own standpoints, delineating the specific existential, philosophical, and professional problems they face as minority philosophical voices.

Beyond Racial Gridlock

Beyond Racial Gridlock
Author: George Yancey
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2009-08-20
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830874550

Sociologist George Yancey critiques four models of race (colorblindness, Anglo-conformity, multiculturalism and white responsibility), and introduces a new model (mutual responsibility). He offers hope that people of all races can walk together on a shared path toward racial reconciliation--not as adversaries but as collaborators and partners.

Across Black Spaces

Across Black Spaces
Author: George Yancy
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2020-01-31
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1538131633

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.

Christology and Whiteness

Christology and Whiteness
Author: George Yancy
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2012
Genre: Bibles
ISBN: 0415699975

This book explores Christology through the lens of whiteness, addressing whiteness as a site of privilege and power within the specific context of Christology. It asks whether or not Jesus' life and work offers theological, religious and ethical resources that can address the question of contemporary forms of white privilege. The text seeks to encourage ways of thinking about whiteness theologically through the mission of Jesus. In this sense, white Christians are encouraged to reflect on how their whiteness is a site of tension in relation to their theological and religious framework. A distinguished team of contributors explore key topics including the Christology of domination, different images of Jesus and the question of identification with Jesus, and the Black Jesus in the inner city.

One Faith No Longer

One Faith No Longer
Author: George Yancey
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2021-07-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1479808660

Irreconcilable differences drive the division between progressive and conservative Christians—is there a divorce coming? Much attention has been paid to political polarization in America, but far less to the growing schism between progressive and conservative Christians. In this groundbreaking new book, George Yancey and Ashlee Quosigk offer the provocative contention that progressive and conservative Christianities have diverged so much in their core values that they ought to be thought of as two separate religions. The authors draw on both quantitative data and interviews to uncover how progressive and conservative Christians determine with whom they align themselves religiously, and how they distinguish themselves from each other. They find that progressive Christians emphasize political agreement relating to social justice issues as they determine who is part of their in-group, and focus less on theological agreement. Among conservative Christians, on the other hand, the major concern is whether one agrees with them on core theological points. Progressive and conservative Christians thus use entirely different factors in determining their social identity and moral values. In a time when religion and politics have never seemed so intertwined, One Faith No Longer offers a timely and compelling reframing of an age-old conflict.

Who is White?

Who is White?
Author: George A. Yancey
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2003
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9781588261236

Yancey demonstrates how and why the definition of "whiteness" is changing rapidly in the United States.