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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.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Speaking Behind and To the Veil
George Yancy
Incarcerating Blackness: My Nephew, His Letter from an Arizona Prison, Our ReflectionsWilliam David Hart
Philosophy as Excited Delirium and the Credibility Deficit of the Black MaleClevis Headley
Emmett Till's BodyA. Todd Franklin
The War on Blackness: Black Men and the State of the UnionArnold L. Farr
Blues Sons and Sorrow's KitchenHouston A. Baker, Jr.
Disaggregating Death: George Floyd and the Significance of Black Male Mortality in Police EncountersTommy J. Curry
Theory, Epistemic Failure, and the Problem of (Hue)Man SufferingTimothy J. Golden
What's Happening Brother? Josiah Ulysses Young III
To be Over-Determined from Without: Negotiating White Supremacy from Corporeal BlacknessLinden F. Lewis
Navigating the Aguala: Blackness, Shamans and Drag Queens Sterlin Mosley
Power, Divorce, and Trauma: Law and LossFloyd W. Hayes III
Black Subversive Memory and a Black Progressive Leadership as Resources for Black Male Engagement in Prolonged Resistance Against White Power StructuresJoseph Smith
Alternative Hip Hop Masculinity: On Hip Hop Hypermasculinity, Heteronormativity & Radical HumanismReiland Rabaka
How Black Lives Matter and Why Revolutionary Philosophy is Relevant:Philosophical Considerations on Ideological and Political Economic Contradictions
John H. McClendon III
The Spectacle Lynching and Modern-Day Crucifixion of George Floyd When the World is a Witness to Murder
Aaron X. Smith
Blood on the CheckSemassa Boko
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Edited by George Yancy - Contributions by Houston A. Baker, Jr.; Semassa Boko; Tommy J. Curry; Arnold L. Farr; A. Todd Franklin; Timothy J. Golden; William David Hart; Floyd W. Hayes, III; Clevis Headley; Linden F. Lewis; John H. McClendon III; Sterlin Mo
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.