George Yancy

Gebundenes Buch

Backlash

What Happens When We Talk Honestly about Racism in America

Beschreibung

When George Yancy penned a New York Times article entitled à â Å Dear White America,à â  he knew he was courting controversy. Here, Yancy chronicles the ensuing blowback as he seeks to understand what it was that created so much rage among so many white readers. He challenges white Americans to develop a new empathy for the African American experience.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 150mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 356g
• ISBN-13: 9781538104057
• ISBN-10: 1538104059
• Artikelnr.: 49133592