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Black Bodies, White Gazes Black Bodies, White Gazes The Continuing Significance of Race in America Second Edition George Yancy ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD Lanham • Boulder • New York • London Published by Rowman & Littlefield A wholly owned subsidiary of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200, Lanham, Maryland 20706 www.rowman.com Unit A, Whitacre Mews, 26- 34 Stannary Street, London SE11 4AB Copyright © 2017 by Rowman & Littlefield All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information Available Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Yancy, George, author. Title: Black bodies, white gazes: the continuing significance of race in America / George Yancy. Description: Second Edition. | Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. | Includes index. Identifiers: LCCN 2016038669 (print) | LCCN 2016041887 (ebook) | ISBN 9781442258341 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781442258365 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781442258358 (Electronic) Subjects: LCSH: African Americans. | Racism—United States. | United States—Race relations. Classification: LCC E185 .Y32 2016 (print) | LCC E185 (ebook) | DDC 305.800973—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016038669 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—P ermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/ NISO Z39.48- 1992. Printed in the United States of America For all bodies that suffer Contents Foreword ix Preface to the Second Edition xiii Acknowledgments xxv Introduction xxix 1 Black Bodies and the Myth of a Post- Racial America 1 2 The Elevator Effect: Black Bodies/ White Bodies 17 3 The Return of the Black Body: Nine Vignettes 51 4 The Agential Black Body: Resisting the Black Imago in the White Imaginary 105 5 Exposing the Serious World of Whiteness through Frederick Douglass’s Autobiographical Reflections 125 6 Desiring Bluest Eyes, Desiring Whiteness: The Black Body as Torn Asunder 169 7 Whiteness as Ambush and the Transformative Power of Vigilance 217 8 White Embodied Gazing, the Black Body as Disgust, and the Aesthetics of Un- Suturing 243 Index 263 About the Author 275 vii
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