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White Philosophers and the White Problem

...George Yancy and Tommy Curry face. The violence against George Cicariello-Maher, Albert Ponce, and others is too well documented for our institutions to plead ignorance. The AAUP and APA have...

Public Philosophy Editors on Building the Field

...of publishing a series of interviews conducted by George Yancy with scholars and practitioners from the world’s major religions. To me, that’s a wonderful and unexpected take on diversity. But...

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...is a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Philosophy & Public Policy at George Mason University, a Faculty Fellow at the School of International Service at American University, and a...

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Time Will Tell: An Interview with Boram Jeong

...of philosophy, including George Yancy and more. I noticed it was important to you to begin your chapter “A People Yet to Come: ‘People of Color’ Reconsidered” with a personal narrative,...

Time Will Tell: A Series on the Philosophy of Time

...grew with and because of George Yancy’s mentorship. There’s so much to think about here yet. In Spinoza, we learn that the laws of Nature for human beings are all...

What Is Policing For?

...scholars have long argued that anti-Black ideology ties Blackness to criminality. George Yancy writes of white women clutching their purses when they share an elevator with him, because the white...

Interview with Mabogo P. More

...have written narratives about their lives. I think here of George Yancy’s two books, African-American Philosophers: 17 Conversations (1998) and to an extent his The Philosophical I: Personal Reflections on Life in Philosophy (2002)....

Rob Redding’s “Why Black Lives Matter: Borigination explains how to get police and whites to treat blacks like people”

...is difficult, heart-wrenching stuff. Some years ago I wrote “The Irreplaceability of Continued Struggle,” an essay kindly included in George Yancy’s Pursuing Trayvon Martin: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Manifestations of...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Public Art and the Fragility of Democracy

...with what I dubbed “parrhesiastic democracy.” Foucault’s work on this is very important, as is George Yancy’s application of it.   You can ask Fred Evans questions about his work...