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Recently Published Book Spotlight: Phenomenology of Black Spirit

...oppressed, and violated voices and perspectives. The task, we think, is to engage the canon in ways that situate it and its violence and tarry with it, as George Yancy...

What Does It Mean to Be a Race in a Loving World?: Healing the Wounds of Racism in the Philosophy Classroom

...Lorde, Kristie Dotson, Shannon Sullivan, George Yancy, José Medina, and María Lugones, among others. In assembling this table, we identified different harms that racism causes to people of color and...

Charles Mills: On Seeing and Naming the Whiteness of Philosophy

...Charles W. (2012). “Philosophy Raced, Philosophy Erased,” in George Yancy (Ed.) Reframing the Practice of Philosophy: Bodies of Color, Bodies of Knowledge. New York: State University of New York Press....

Why Teach About Race in Modern Philosophy

...and Inclusion section of the APA website, and I also recommend George Yancy’s edited volume Reframing the Practice of Philosophy: Bodies of Color, Bodies of Knowledge for a more specific...

One Way to Think with Precarity in the Classroom

...component. Following the spring 2018 class, a group of students and I published a book chapter about our shared work that came out in a festschrift in honor of George Yancy, whose work provided...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: George Yancy: A Critical Introduction

...Yancy has made to philosophy and the transformative power of his work. Copies are available for preorder now. About this collection, George Yancy said: “It was 20 years ago, 2001,...

George Yancy

George Yancy is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy at Emory University and a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College, one of the college’s highest honors. He is also the...

Policing and Criminal Oppression

...doing just this in response to an urgent injustice is George Yancy and Janine Jones’s edited volume Pursuing Trayvon Martin. But, for the most part, contemporary philosophers of criminal law...

“Hi, I’m New Here”: Building a Network of Support

...we need to survive academically. It also creates an environment in which members of marginalized groups need to constantly “prove they are good enough for the discipline,” as George Yancy...

Uncertainty Can Be A Luxury: A Response to a Recent Issue of Race and Class at Smith College

...stranger wrestling with a lock?  Some might say that reactions like these make one racist. Delving deeper, renowned critical race theorist, George Yancy, argues that being a racist makes one white....