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Black Men from Behind the Veil bears witness to anti-Black male violence and does so from the perspective of Black male scholars who disclose their fears and what it means to suffer as Black men, courageously marking the deep material, institutional, and epistemic structures that amplify that fear and suffering.
List of contents
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
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.A. Todd Franklin is the Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Africana Studies at Hamilton College. Franklin’s research focuses on the existential, social, and political implications of various critical and transformative discourses aimed at cultivating individual and collective self-realization. He teaches courses on existentialism, Nietzsche, and critical race theory; and he is the recipient of numerous honors and accolades for excellence in teaching. Franklin’s most recent work includes “The Transformative Power of Community Engaged Teaching” in Wiley Blackwell’s A Companion to Public Philosophy, and “The Gospel According to Baldwin: Prophetic Genealogy as Social Praxis” in Genealogy: A Genealogy.Timothy J. Golden is professor of philosophy at Whitman College.Gazela Pudar Draško is researcher at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory at the University of Belgrade and Director of the Institute.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.
Summary
Black Men from Behind the Veil bears witness to anti-Black male violence and does so from the perspective of Black male scholars who disclose their fears and what it means to suffer as Black men, courageously marking the deep material, institutional, and epistemic structures that amplify that fear and suffering.
