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  • Black Bodies, White Gazes

    The Continuing Significance of Race in America

    by George Yancy ...
    George Yancy's third edition of Black Bodies, White Gazes applies a clear and dynamic phenomenological framework of race to the history and most recent headlines in social justice and race relations. Including coverage of police murders and brutality against Black Americans and the rise of white nationalism, this is a timeless introduction to the philosophy of race.The third edition features new ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Backlash

    What Happens When We Talk Honestly about Racism in America

    by George Yancy ...
    When George Yancy penned a New York Times op-ed entitled “Dear White America” asking white Americans to confront the ways that they benefit from racism, he knew his article would be controversial. But he was unprepared for the flood of vitriol in response.The resulting blowback played out in the national media, with critics attacking Yancy in every form possible—including death threats—and ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Fire Now

    Anti-Racist Scholarship in Times of Explicit Racial Violence

    by George Yancy ...
    Not so long ago, many spoke of a 'post-racial' era, claiming that advances made by people of colour showed that racial divisions were becoming a thing of the past. But the hollowness of such claims has been exposed by the rise of Trump and Brexit, both of which have revealed deep seated white resentment, and have been attended by a resurgence in hate crime and overt racial hatred on both sides of ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Across Black Spaces

    Essays and Interviews from an American Philosopher

    by George Yancy ...
    Across Black Spaces gathers and builds on a diverse array of essays and interviews by American philosopher and leading public intellectual George Yancy. Within this multidisciplinary framework are works from The New York Times, The Guardian, and other major media outletswhich have drawn international acclaim for their spotlight on vicious racial tensions in American academia and society at large ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • On Race

    34 Conversations in a Time of Crisis

    by George Yancy ...
    With the recent barrage of racially motivated killings, violent encounters between blacks and whites, and hate crimes in the wake of the 2016 election that foreground historic problems posed by systemic racism, including disenfranchisement and mass incarceration, it would be easy to despair that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream has turned into a nightmare. Many Americans struggle for equal ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD

  • Convergences

    Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy

    by George Yancy ...
    Series series SUNY series in Gender Theory
    Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy in dialogue.A range of themes-race and gender, sexuality, otherness, sisterhood, and agency-run throughout this collection, and the chapters constitute a collective discourse at the intersection of Black feminist thought and continental philosophy, converging on a similar set of questions and concerns. These convergences are not random or forced, but are ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • American Nightmare

    Facing the Challenge of Fascism

    by Henry A. Giroux ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    Henry Giroux’s message and influence have never been stronger. He saw Trump coming and sounded the alarm far in advance. That perspective was presented in his previous book from last year, America at War with Itself, which Robin D.G. Kelley has aptly referred to as a prescient work, as it assessed the threat Trump posed as real, racist, and authoritarian. Given the current political crisis we find ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Until Our Lungs Give Out

    Conversations on Race, Justice, and the Future

    by George Yancy ...
    A 2023 Library Journal Best Social Sciences TitleFrom Library Journal's Starred Review: "All readers stand to learn something from this compelling book."Award-winning author, scholar, and social visionary George Yancy brings together the greatest minds of our time to speak truth to power and welcome everyone into a conversation about the pursuit of... ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Open Casket

    Philosophical Meditations on the Lynching of Emmett Till

    Edited by George Yancy, A. Todd Franklin ...
    Open Casket brings political and philosophical clarity to bear on the brutal murder of Emmitt Till and his mother's decision to show the world her son's body.The open casket is a central motif, a political and ethical focal point, for thinking about Mamie Till-Mobley's pain and suffering and her profound act of truth-tellingas she wanted the world to bear witness to the gratuitous, despicable, and ... Read more

    $42.19 CAD

  • In Sheep's Clothing

    The Idolatry of White Christian Nationalism

    Edited by George Yancy, Bill Bywater ...
    From Megyn Kelly's claim that Jesus is white to former President Trump's claim that he is the “chosen one” or the “King of Israel,” there is serious trouble in paradise. Contemporary manifestations of white Christian nationalism are deeply entangled in political issues from women’s political rights over their own bodies to the rejection of Critical Race Theory (CRT). Carrying Christian signs and ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Violence

    Humans in Dark Times

    by Brad Evans, Natasha Lennard, Simon Critchley, George Yancy, Zygmunt Bauman, Adrian Parr, Henry A. Giroux, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Nicholas Mirzoeff, Simona Forti, Bracha L. Ettinger, Cary Wolfe, Richard J. Bernstein, Moira Weigel, Oliver Stone, Alfredo Jaar, Tom McCarthy, John Akomfrah, David Theo Goldberg, Christopher Alden, Jake Chapman, Brian Massumi, Elaine Scarry, Erin Manning, Michael J. Shapiro, Allen Feldman, Mickey Mod, Jack Halberstram, Gottfried Heinwein, Neo Muyanaga ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    Through a series of penetrating conversations originally published in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Review of Books, Brad Evans and Natasha Lennard talk with a wide range of cutting edge thinkers--including Oliver Stone, Simon Critchley, and Elaine Scarry--to explore the problem of violence in everyday life, politics, culture, media, language, memory, and the environment. "To bring out ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Christology and Whiteness

    What Would Jesus Do?

    Edited by George Yancy ...
    This book explores Christology through the lens of whiteness, addressing whiteness as a site of privilege and power within the specific context of Christology. It asks whether or not Jesus’ life and work offers theological, religious and ethical resources that can address the question of contemporary forms of white privilege. The text seeks to encourage ways of thinking about whiteness ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD