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Black men from behind the veil : ontological interrogations / edited by George Yancy.

Other author/creatorYancy, George editor.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Lanham, Maryland ; Boulder ; New York ; London : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2022]
Descriptionx, 224 pages : portrait (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Subject(s)
Series Philosophy of race
Philosophy of race. ^A1343997
Contents Introduction: Speaking Behind and To the Veil / George Yancy -- Incarcerating Blackness: My Nephew, His Letter from an Arizona Prison, Our Reflections / William David Hart -- Philosophy as Excited Delirium and the Credibility Deficit of the Black Male / Clevis Headley -- Emmett Till's Body / A. Todd Franklin -- The War on Blackness: Black Men and the State of the Union / Arnold L. Farr -- Blues Sons and Sorrow's Kitchen / Houston A. Baker, Jr. -- Disaggregating Death: George Floyd and the Significance of Black Male Mortality in Police Encounters / Tommy J. Curry -- Theory, Epistemic Failure, and the Problem of (Hue)Man Suffering / Timothy J. Golden -- What's Happening Brother? / Josiah Ulysses Young III -- To be Over-Determined from Without: Negotiating White Supremacy from Corporeal Blackness / Linden F. Lewis -- Navigating the Aguala: Blackness, Shamans and Drag Queens / Sterlin Mosley -- Power, Divorce, and Trauma: Law and Loss / Floyd W. Hayes III -- Black Subversive Memory and a Black Progressive Leadership as Resources for Black Male Engagement in Prolonged Resistance Against White Power Structures / Joseph Smith -- Alternative Hip Hop Masculinity: On Hip Hop Hypermasculinity, Heteronormativity & Radical Humanism / Reiland Rabaka -- How Black Lives Matter and Why Revolutionary Philosophy is Relevant: Philosophical Considerations on Ideological and Political Economic Contradictions / John H. McClendon III -- The Spectacle Lynching and Modern-Day Crucifixion of George Floyd -- When the World is a Witness to Murder / Aaron X. Smith -- Blood on the Check / Semassa Boko.
Abstract "Black Men from Behind the Veil bears witness to anti-Black male violence and does so from the perspective of Black male scholars who disclose their fears and what it means to suffer as Black men, courageously marking the deep material, institutional, and epistemic structures that amplify that fear and suffering"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Black men from behind the veil Lanham : Lexington Books, [2021] 9781666906486
LCCN 2021044330
ISBN9781666906479 hardcover
ISBN1666906476 hardcover
ISBNelectronic book

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