Until Our Lungs Give Out - Conversations on Race, Justice, and the Future

A 2023 Library Journal Best Social Sciences Title

From Library Journal's Starred Review: "All readers stand to learn something from this compelling book."

Award-winning author, scholar, and social visionary George Yancy brings together the greatest minds of our time to speak truth to power and welcome everyone into a conversation about the pursuit of justice, equality, and peace.

This interwoven collection of searingly honest interviews with leading intellectuals includes conversations with Noam Chomsky, Judith Butler, Cornel West, Robin D. G. Kelley, and Peter McLaren. Each conversation bears witness to the weighty moment in which it was first conducted and presented by Truthout and Tikkun magazines while pointing to ramifications, future hurdles, and practical optimism for moving forward.

Learning how to speak about such topics as white supremacy and global whiteness, xenophobia, anti-BIPOC racism, fear of critical race theory, and the importance of Black feminist and trans perspectives, readers will be better able to join future conversations with their peers, those in power, and those who need to be empowered to change the status quo.

Sommario

Acknowledgments
Foreword, Tim Wise
Introduction: Critical Voices that Refuse to be Silenced, George Yancy
Part One: Whiteness as Innocence Must Die
1. It's Time for "Whiteness as Usual" to End: How do we Overcome the Death Wish of White Supremacy?: Interview with David R. Roediger
2. To be Black in the US is to Have a Knee Against Your Neck Each Day: Interview with George Yancy by Woojin Lim
3. Confronting Prejudice isn't Enough: We Must Eradicate the White Racial Frame: Interview with Joe Feagin
4. We Have to Let White Supremacy Die in Order to Truly Live: Interview with David Kyuman Kim
Part Two: Global Anti-Blackness
5. Afropessimism Forces Us to Rethink Our Most Basic Assumptions About Society: Interview with Frank B. Wilderson, III
6. "I Can't Breathe" Is a Cry Well Known to Black Indigenous People in Australia: Interview with Chelsea Watego
7. Black Feminist "Back Talk" Anchors Resistance on Both Sides of the Atlantic: Interview with Akwugo Emejulu
8. Anti-Black Racism is Global: So Must be the Movement to End It: Interview with Adele Norris
Part Three: Racism, Education, and Practices of Freedom
9. Trump is Attacking Critical Race Theory Because it is a Force for Liberation: Interview with Mari Matsuda
10. Education Will be Critical in the Fight for Democracy and Anti-Racism: Interview with Pedro A. Noguera
11. Paulo Freire: Critical Education in a World in Need of Repair: Interview with Peter McLaren
Part Four: Challenging White Foundations
12. The Tulsa Race Massacre Went Way Beyond "Black Wall Street": Interview with Robin D.G. Kelley
13. The Whiteness of Harvard and Wall Street is "Jim Crow, New Style": Interview with Cornel West
14. US Founders Demonized Indigenous People While Co-opting Their Political Practices: Interview with Brian Burkhart
15. Founded on Inequality, Can the US Ever be Truly Democratic and Inclusive?: Interview with Tracy Denean Sharpley-Whiting
Part Five: Assaults on the Black Body
16. White Indifference is Normalizing Spectacular Acts of Violence: Interview with Robin D.G. Kelley
17. White Journalists are Still Using the N-Word: This is an Intolerable Assault on Black Freedom: Interview with Elizabeth Pryor
18. Protests Unleashed by Murder of George Floyd Exceed All in US History: Interview with Noam Chomsky
Part Six: Matters of Faith and Religion
19. Black Womanist Theology Offers Hope in the Face of White Supremacy: Interview with Kelly Brown Douglas
20. Christianity is Empty if it Doesn't Address the Racist Carceral State: Interview with Mark L. Taylor
21. White Supremacist Christianity Drives Trump's Loyal Mob: We Must Scream it Down: Interview with Susannah Heschel
Part Seven: The Politics of Catastrophe
22. Mourning is a Political Act Amid the Pandemic and Its Disparities: Interview with Judith Butler
23. Trump's Lying about COVID Amounts to Treason: Interview with Eduardo Mendieta
24. Big Pharma Cares More About Profiting from COVID than Human Survival: Interview with Noam Chomsky
Part Eight: Realizing (or Imagining) the Possible
25. Black Trans Feminist Thought Can Set Us Free: Interview with Che Gossett
26. Reaching Beyond "Black Faces in High Places": Interview with Joy James
Part Nine: White Mob Mentality
27. The Capitol Siege was White Supremacy in Action: Trial Evidence Confirms That: Interview with Peniel E. Joseph
28. Capitol Mob Reveals Ongoing Refusal to Accept Black Votes as Legitimate: Interview with Eric Fonner
29. Trump has Adopted a "Viva Death!" Approach to the Presidency: Interview with Noam Chomsky
About the Contributors
Index

Info autore

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: George Yancy, Yancy George
• Con la collaborazione di: Wise Tim (Prefazione)
• Editore: Bloomsbury
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 22.01.2026
• EAN: 9798216371014
• ISBN: 979-8-216-37101-4
• Pagine: 400
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 228 mm x 26 mm
• Peso: 640 g
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Altro; PHILOSOPHY / Political, Political activism, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Social discrimination & inequality, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Activism & Social Justice, Political activism / Political engagement, Social discrimination and social justice