Black Men From Behind the Veil - Ontological Interrogations

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 Reflections

William David Hart

Philosophy as Excited Delirium and the Credibility Deficit of the Black Male

Clevis Headley

Emmett Till's Body

A. Todd Franklin

The War on Blackness: Black Men and the State of the Union

Arnold L. Farr

Blues Sons and Sorrow's Kitchen

Houston A. Baker, Jr.

Disaggregating Death: George Floyd and the Significance of Black Male Mortality in Police Encounters

Tommy J. Curry

Theory, Epistemic Failure, and the Problem of (Hue)Man Suffering

Timothy J. Golden

What's Happening Brother?

Josiah Ulysses Young III

To be Over-Determined from Without: Negotiating White Supremacy from Corporeal Blackness

Linden F. Lewis

Navigating the Aguala: Blackness, Shamans and Drag Queens

Sterlin Mosley

Power, Divorce, and Trauma: Law and Loss

Floyd W. Hayes III

Black Subversive Memory and a Black Progressive Leadership as Resources for Black Male Engagement in Prolonged Resistance Against White Power Structures

Joseph Smith

Alternative Hip Hop Masculinity: On Hip Hop Hypermasculinity, Heteronormativity & Radical Humanism

Reiland 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 Check

Semassa Boko
About the Contributors

Info autore

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

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: George Yancy
• Con la collaborazione di: George Yancy (Editore), Yancy George (Editore)
• Editore: Lexington Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781666906479
• ISBN: 978-1-66690-647-9
• Pagine: 234
• Serie: Philosophy of Race
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Filosofia: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Filosofia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; USA, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Law Enforcement, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Social discrimination & inequality, United States of America, USA, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Police & security services, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Black & Asian Studies, Police and security services, Social discrimination and social justice, Relating to African American / Black American people, W. E. B. Du Bois and the Veil