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On race : 34 conversations in a time of crisis / George Yancy.

by Yancy, George.

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Oxford University Press, 2017.

Race -- Philosophy.

Race awareness.

View essays by Professor George Yancy from the New York Times website.

View essays from the New York Times philosophy column.

9780190498559 (hc.)

xx, 355 pages ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Race and the Critical Space of Black Women's Voices -- bell hooks -- Patricia Hill Collins -- Hortense Spillers -- Joy James -- Discussion Questions -- Part II. Race and the Naming of Whiteness -- Judith Butler -- Alison Bailey -- John D. Caputo -- Shannon Sullivan -- Craig Irvine -- Joe Feagin -- Discussion Questions -- PART III. Race, Pedagogy, and the Domain of the Cultural -- Lawrence Blum -- Dan Flory -- David Theo Goldberg -- Discussion Questions -- Part IV. Race, History, Capitalism, Ethics, and Neo-liberalism -- Noam Chomsky -- Nancy Fraser -- Peter Singer -- Seyla Benhabib -- Naomi Zack -- Charles Mills -- Falguni A. Sheth -- Discussion Questions -- Part V. Race Beyond the Black/White Binary -- Linda Martín Alcoff -- Eduardo Mendieta -- David Haekwon Kim -- Emily S. Lee -- Discussion Questions -- Part VI. Race and Africana Social and Political Frames -- Molefi Kete Asante -- Bill E. Lawson -- Lucius T. Outlaw, Jr. -- Cornel West -- Kwame Anthony Appiah -- Clevis Headley -- Discussion Questions -- Part VII. Race Beyond the United States -- Fiona Nicoll -- Paul Gilroy -- Discussion Questions -- PART VIII. Race and Religion: At the Intersections -- Charles Johnson -- Traci C. West -- Discussion Questions.

"With the recent barrage of racially motivated killings, violent encounters between blacks and whites, and hate crimes in the wake of the 2016 election that foreground historic problems posed by systemic racism, including disenfranchisement and mass incarceration, it would be easy to despair that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream has turned into a nightmare. Many Americans struggle for equal treatment, facing hate speech, brutality, and a national spirit of hopelessness; their reality is hardly "post-racial". The need for clarity surrounding the significance of race and racism in the United States is more pressing than ever. This collection of interviews on race, some originally conducted for The New York Times philosophy blog, The Stone, provides rich context and insight into the nature, challenges, and deepest questions surrounding this fraught and thorny topic. In interviews with such major thinkers as bell hooks, Judith Butler, Cornel West, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Peter Singer, and Noam Chomsky, Yancy probes the historical origins, social constructions, and lived reality of race along political and economic lines. He interrogates fully race's insidious expressions, its transcendence of Black/white binaries, and its link to neo-liberalism, its epistemological and ethical implications, and, ultimately, its future. George Yancy is Professor of Philosophy at Emory University. He is the author, editor and co-editor of over 18 books. He has authored numerous scholarly articles and chapters. He is known for his influential essays and interviews in the New York Times' philosophy column, The Stone."--Provided by publisher.

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