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On Race: 34 Conversations in a Time of Crisis
On Race: 34 Conversations in a Time of Crisis
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With the recent barrage of racially motivated killings, violent encounters between blacks and whites, and hate crimes in the wake of the 2016 election that foreground historic problems posed by systemic racism, including disenfranchisement and mass incarceration, it would be easy to despair
that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream has turned into a nightmare. Many Americans struggle for equal treatment, facing hate speech, brutality, and a national spirit of hopelessness; their reality is hardly post-racial. The need for clarity surrounding the significance of race and racism in the
United States is more pressing than ever. This collection of interviews on race, some originally conducted for The New York Times philosophy blog, The Stone, provides rich context and insight into the nature, challenges, and deepest questions surrounding this fraught and thorny topic. In interviews with such major thinkers as bell hooks, Judith Butler, Cornel West, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Peter Singer, and Noam Chomsky, Yancy probes the historical origins, social constructions, and lived reality of race along political and economic lines. He interrogates fully race's insidious
expressions, its transcendence of Black/white binaries, and its link to neo-liberalism, its epistemological and ethical implications, and, ultimately, its future.
Author: George Yancy
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 10/02/2017
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780190498559
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2017
Booklist 09/01/2017 pg. 16
that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream has turned into a nightmare. Many Americans struggle for equal treatment, facing hate speech, brutality, and a national spirit of hopelessness; their reality is hardly post-racial. The need for clarity surrounding the significance of race and racism in the
United States is more pressing than ever. This collection of interviews on race, some originally conducted for The New York Times philosophy blog, The Stone, provides rich context and insight into the nature, challenges, and deepest questions surrounding this fraught and thorny topic. In interviews with such major thinkers as bell hooks, Judith Butler, Cornel West, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Peter Singer, and Noam Chomsky, Yancy probes the historical origins, social constructions, and lived reality of race along political and economic lines. He interrogates fully race's insidious
expressions, its transcendence of Black/white binaries, and its link to neo-liberalism, its epistemological and ethical implications, and, ultimately, its future.
Author: George Yancy
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 10/02/2017
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780190498559
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2017
Booklist 09/01/2017 pg. 16
About the Author
George Yancy is Professor of Philosophy at Emory University. He is the author, editor and co-editor of over 18 books. He has authored numerous scholarly articles and chapters. He is known for his influential essays and interviews in the New York Times' philosophy column, The Stone.
