George Yancy

Kimberley Ducey is associate professor in sociology at the University of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. She is a recipient of Québec’s Forces AVENIR Award for her efforts in promoting liberation sociology. She has published articles on liberation sociology, genocide, and pedagogical strategies.Clevis R. Headley is associate professor of philosophy at Florida Atlantic University where he specializes in Africana philosophy, critical race theory, epistemology, the philosophy of language, and philosophy of mathematics. Headley has co-edited two books, Shifting the Geography of Reason (2007) and Haiti and the Americas (2013) and is currently finishing a book manuscript titled Race, Philosophy, and Being: Working Through the Contestability of Race and Philosophy, which is under contract with Lexington Books.Joe R. Feagin is a U.S. sociologist and social theorist who has conducted extensive research on racial and gender issues, especially in regard to the United States. He is currently the Ella C. McFadden Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University. Feagin has done much research work on race and ethnic relations and has served as the scholar in residence at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. He has written over 60 books, one of which (Ghetto Revolts) was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. He is the 2006 recipient of a Harvard Alumni Association achievement award and was the 1999-2000 president of the American Sociological Association.

This book is a must read whether or not one is familiar with the work of African American philosopher George Yancy. The editors have collected essays that chronicle and critique Yancy’s career and writings. The contributors discuss Yancy's ability to bring together philosophy and African American intellectual knowledge to advance an inclusive standard in philosophical inquiry that has been lacking. The essays investigate various ways in which Yancy uses and expands beyond traditional white philosophical limits. The focus of the essays ranges from existentialism and phenomenology to the influence, social and political, of Yancy’s writings on critical theory, race discussions, and issues of whiteness—his use of “love-laden” “academic and improvisational” skills requires readers to stand and experience unsettling situations to address ways forward. Readable and philosophically impactful, this collection is required reading for philosophy, critical studies, and fields that touch on any of these issues. Read on university-wide and administrative levels, this book will open important discussions on race. Essential. All readers.

• ForewordJudith ButlerIntroductionClevis R. Headley, Kimberley Ducey, and Joe R. FeaginPart One: Tarrying, the Gift and TraditionThe Problem and the BlemishRyan J. Johnson and Biko Mandela GrayErlebnis, Tarrying, and Thinking Again after George YancySelihom Andarge, Nicholas Aranda, Josie Brady, Tricia Charfauros, Kelly Coakley, Dr. Becky Vartabedian, and Regi WorlesYancy’s GiftBill BywaterParrhesia: Truth Telling in the Black TraditionKathy GlassPart Two: Groundings in Existential PhenomenologyGeorge Yancy, ExistentialistTom SparrowWays of Seeing WhitenessDaniel C. BlightA Phenomenology of Invisibility: On the Absence of Yellow BodiesBoram JeongTo Remove the Scales from their Eyes: A Phenomenology of Rap MusicHarry A. NetheryPart Three: Educating Reason: Critical PedagogyPhilosophy/Pedagogy: A Critique of the PresentMark William WestmorelandThe Courage to Be a Killjoy: George Yancy’s Gift to Social Justice EducatorsBarbara ApplebaumGeorge Yancy’s Embodied Critical Space of Antiracist PraxisE. Lâle DemirtürkPart Four: Race, Whiteness and PhilosophyPhilosophy, Race, and Social Practices in George Yancy’s ScholarshipClarence S. JohnsonDisrupting Whiteness: The Productive Disturbance of George Yancy’s Work on White Identity and the White GazeStephen BrookfieldHopeless Whiteness and the Philosophical and Pedagogical TaskAnthony Paul SmithAfterwordGeorge Yancy