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George Yancy gathers white scholarship that dwells on the experience of whiteness as a problem without sidestepping the question's implications for Black people or people of color. This unprecedented reversion of the "Black problem" narrative challenges contemporary rhetoric of a color-evasive world in a critically engaging and persuasive study.
List of contents
Introduction: Un-sutured, George Yancy
Chapter 1: Flipping the Script.and Still a Problem: Staying in the Anxiety of Being a Problem, Barbara Applebaum
Chapter 2: Feeling White, Feeling Good: "Antiracist" White Sensibilities, Karen Teel
Chapter 3: 'White Talk' As a Barrier to Understanding the Problem with Whiteness, Alison Bailey
Chapter 4: Un-forgetting as a Collective Tactic, Alexis Shotwell
Chapter 5: "Don't make a labor of it": Relationality and the Problem of Whiteness, Crista Lebens
Chapter 6: "You're the nigger, baby, it isn't me": The willed Ignorance and Wishful Innocence of White America, Robert Jensen
Chapter 7: Humility and Whiteness: "How did I look without seeing, hear without listening?", Rebecca Aanerud
Chapter 8: I Speak for My People: A Racial Manifesto, Crispin Sartwell
Chapter 9: Being a White Problem and Feeling It, Bridget M. Newell
Chapter 10: Keeping the Strange Unfamiliar: The Racial Privilege of Dismantling Whiteness, Nancy McHugh
Chapter 11: Cornered by Whiteness: On Being a White Problem, David S. Owen
Chapter 12: Whiteness, Democracy, and the Hegemonic Mind, Steve Martinot
Chapter 13: Am I the Small Axe or the Big Tree?, Steve Garner
Chapter 14: Contort Yourself: Music, Whiteness, and the Politics of Disorientation, Robin James
About the author
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.Barbara Applebaum is professor in the Department of Cultural Foundations of Education at Syracuse University.Jessica Krim is associate professor, chair, and secondary education program director at Southern Illinois University.Robin James is a popular music scholar and author of five books including Resilience & Melancholy (2015), The Future of Rock & Roll: 97X WOXY and the Fight for True Independence (2023). She has published extensively in the scholarly and mainstream press, with bylines at Jezebel, The Guardian, LARB, and other publications. A former co-editor of The Journal of Popular Music Studies, Robin has given public lectures about her work at venues like the CTM Festival and The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Her day job is commissioning scholarly and trade books in music, media, and communication at Palgrave Macmillan.
Summary
George Yancy gathers white scholarship that dwells on the experience of whiteness as a problem without sidestepping the question’s implications for Black people or people of color. This unprecedented reversion of the “Black problem” narrative challenges contemporary rhetoric of a color-evasive world in a critically engaging and persuasive study.
