Full Description
Following the deaths of Trayvon Martin and other black youths in recent years, students on campuses across America have joined professors and activists in calling for justice and increased awareness that Black Lives Matter. In this second edition of his trenchant and provocative book, George Yancy offers students the theoretical framework they crave for understanding the violence perpetrated against the Black body. Drawing from the lives of Ossie Davis, Frantz Fanon, Malcolm X, and W. E. B. Du Bois, as well as his own experience, and fully updated to account for what has transpired since the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, Yancy provides an invaluable resource for students and teachers of courses in African American Studies, African American History, Philosophy of Race, and anyone else who wishes to examine what it means to be Black in America.
Contents
Foreword
Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Black Bodies and the Myth of a Post-Racial America
2 The Elevator Effect: Black Bodies/White Bodies
3 The Return of the Black Body: Nine Vignettes
4 The Agential Black Body: Resisting the Black Imago in the White Imaginary
5 Exposing the Serious World of Whiteness through Frederick Douglass's Autobiographical Reflections
6 Desiring Bluest Eyes, Desiring Whiteness: The Black Body as Torn Asunder
7 Whiteness as Ambush and the Transformative Power of Vigilance
8 White Embodied Gazing, the Black Body as "Disgust," and the Aesthetics of Un-Suturing
Index
About the Author
