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Zusatztext How should a liberal society respond to the Ku Klux Klan? What if Batman were a black man? How can a white professor teach about race effectively? Why is there a lack of trust between black communities and local police? Does racism have the same roots as what leads factory farm workers to use live chickens as footballs? Have Muslims of Arab descent replaced black people as the pariah of American society? George Yancy has put together 34 penetrating, illuminating, and in some cases heart-rending interviews with today's leading thinkers about race in a timely book about racism in America that answers these questions and more. Informationen zum Autor George Yancy is Professor of Philosophy at Emory University. Klappentext The recent barrage of racially motivated killings, violent antagonisms, and conflagrations has left many Americans reeling in the face of a so-called post-racial reality. In thirty-four interviews¿some previously unpublished and others originally conducted for The New York Times' philosophy column The Stone, but presented here unedited and with supporting materials¿philosopher George Yancy critically engages some of the most influential thinkersalive today in order to highlight their most crucial insights into understanding the multifaceted dimensions of race in the United States. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction: Critical Conversational Spaces and the Deferral of Racism George Yancy 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 US Fiona Nicoll
