George Yancy

Black Bodies, White Gazes

The Continuing Significance of Race in America

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 518g
• ISBN-13: 9781442258365
• ISBN-10: 1442258365
• Artikelnr.: 45373420

Autorenporträt

By George Yancy - Foreword by Linda Martín Alcoff

Inhaltsangabe

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