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George Yancy George Yancy A Critical Introduction Edited by Kimberley Ducey, Clevis Headley, and Joe R. Feagin Foreword by Judith Butler ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD Lanham • Boulder • New York • London Published by Rowman & Littlefield An imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200, Lanham, Maryland 20706 www.rowman.com 86–90 Paul Street, London EC2A 4NE, United Kingdom Copyright © 2021 by The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 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: Ducey, Kimberley, editor. | Headley, Clevis, editor. | Feagin, Joe R., editor. Title: George Yancy : a critical introduction / edited by Kimberley Ducey, Clevis Headley, and Joe R. Feagin ; foreword by Judith Butler. Description: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “This collection gives George Yancy’s transformative work in social and political philosophy and the philosophy of race the critical attention it has long deserved. Contributors apply perspectives from disciplines including philosophy, sociology, education, communication, peace and conflict studies, religion, and psychology”— Provided by publisher. Identifiers: LCCN 2021030046 (print) | LCCN 2021030047 (ebook) | ISBN 9781538137482 (cloth) | ISBN 9781538137499 (epub) Subjects: LCSH: Yancy, George. | African American philosophers. Classification: LCC B948.Y364 G46 2021 (print) | LCC B948.Y364 (ebook) | DDC 191.089/96073—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021030046 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021030047 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992. To George and all the students and others whom he has influenced to make the world a better place Contents Acknowledgments ix Foreword xi Judith Butler Introduction 1 Clevis Headley, Kimberley Ducey, and Joe R. Feagin PART ONE: TARRYING, THE GIFT AND TRADITION 9 1 The Problem and the Blemish 11 Ryan J. Johnson and Biko Mandela Gray 2 Erlebnis, Tarrying, and Thinking Again after George Yancy 29 Selihom Andarge, Nicholas Aranda, Josie Brady, Tricia Charfauros, Kelley Coakley, Becky Vartabedian, and Regi Worles 3 Yancy’s Gift 49 Bill Bywater 4 Parrhesia: Truth-Telling in the Black Tradition 63 Kathy Glass PART TWO: GROUNDINGS IN EXISTENTIAL PHENOMENOLOGY 73 5 George Yancy, Existentialist 75 Tom Sparrow 6 Ways of Seeing Whiteness 87 Daniel C. Blight vii viii Contents 7 A Phenomenology of Invisibility: On the Absence of Yellow Bodies 103 Boram Jeong 8 To Remove the Scales from Their Eyes: A Phenomenology of Rap Music 117 Harry A. Nethery PART THREE: EDUCATING REASON: CRITICAL PEDAGOGY 131 9 Philosophy/Pedagogy: A Critique of the Present 133 Mark William Westmoreland 10 The Courage to Be a Killjoy: George Yancy’s Gift to Social Justice Educators 147 Barbara Applebaum 11 George Yancy’s Embodied Critical Space of Antiracist Praxis 157 E. Lâle Demirtürk PART FOUR: RACE, WHITENESS, AND PHILOSOPHY 169 12 Philosophy, Race, and Social Practices in George Yancy’s Scholarship 171 Clarence S. Johnson 13 Disrupting Whiteness: The Productive Disturbance of George Yancy’s Work on White Identity and the White Gaze 187 Stephen Brookfield 14 Hopeless Whiteness and the Philosophical and Pedagogical Task 201 Anthony Paul Smith Afterword 215 George Yancy Notes 233 Bibliography 263 Index 281 About the Contributors 295 About the Editors 301 Acknowledgments In the preparation of this book, we have been indebted to many loved ones and to supportive and helpful colleagues. Although regrettably we cannot name them all, we would particularly like to thank Emma Clements for her amazing editing skills, Brianna Westervelt and Sylvia Landis at Rowman & Littlefield, and Jasti Bhavya who managed the production of our book. We are especially indebted to our insightful Rowman & Littlefield editor, Natalie Mandziuk, for her unceasing and enthusiastic support for this project and its underlying goals. Finally, we offer gratitude to the brilliant contributors, without whose work this tribute to the indefatigable Professor George Yancy would not have been possible. ix
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