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George Yancy

George Yancy

Biography

George Yancy, one of the most preeminent writers on race and racism, is a frequent contributor to the New York Times column, &ldfquo;The Stone.” He is the author of many books including, Backlash: What It Means to Talk Honestly about Racism in America (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018), which has been described as “searing, honest, and unflagging in its pursuit of understanding.” Yancy teaches philosophy at Emory University and resides in Atlanta.

26 Books by George Yancy

Breaking the Silence: What Happens When Men Talk about Their Sexism

Breaking the Silence

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Until Our Lungs Give Out: Conversations on Race, Justice, and the Future

Until Our Lungs Give Out

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Black Men from behind the Veil: Ontological Interrogations

Black Men from behind the Veil

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Buddhism and Whiteness: Critical Reflections

Buddhism and Whiteness

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Across Black Spaces: Essays and Interviews from an American Philosopher

Across Black Spaces

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Educating for Critical Consciousness

Educating for Critical Consciousness

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The Fire Now: Anti-Racist Scholarship in Times of Explicit Racial Violence

The Fire Now

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Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly about Racism in America

Backlash

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On Race: 34 Conversations in a Time of Crisis

On Race

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Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race in America

Black Bodies, White Gazes

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Our Black Sons Matter: Mothers Talk about Fears, Sorrows, and Hopes

Our Black Sons Matter

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White Self-Criticality beyond Anti-racism: How Does It Feel to Be a White Problem?

White Self-Criticality beyond Anti-racism

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Listening to Ourselves: A Multilingual Anthology of African Philosophy

Listening to Ourselves

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Pursuing Trayvon Martin: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Manifestations of Racial Dynamics

Pursuing Trayvon Martin

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Exploring Race in Predominantly White Classrooms: Scholars of Color Reflect

Exploring Race in Predominantly White Classrooms

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Christology and Whiteness: What Would Jesus Do?

Christology and Whiteness

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Look, a White!: Philosophical Essays on Whiteness

Look, a White!

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Reframing the Practice of Philosophy: Bodies of Color, Bodies of Knowledge

Reframing the Practice of Philosophy

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The Center Must Not Hold: White Women Philosophers on the Whiteness of Philosophy

The Center Must Not Hold

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Therapeutic Uses of Rap and Hip-Hop

Therapeutic Uses of Rap and Hip-Hop

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Philosophy in Multiple Voices

Philosophy in Multiple Voices

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Narrative Identities: Psychologists Engaged in Self-Construction

Narrative Identities

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White on White/Black on Black

White on White/Black on Black

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What White Looks Like: African-American Philosophers on the Whiteness Question

What White Looks Like

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The Philosophical I: Personal Reflections on Life in Philosophy

The Philosophical I

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African-American Philosophers: 17 Conversations

African-American Philosophers

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