Across Black Spaces

Essays and Interviews from an American Philosopher

George Yancy

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Year: 2020
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781538131633
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Social Philosophy

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.

With this collection of revised and updated works, Yancy engages a vast scope of social, political, historical, linguistic, and philosophical themes that together illustrate what it means to be Black in America. Four sections of the book engage, first, moral outrage at contemporary ethical crises; second, the search for identity and value of vulnerability; third, the history and present values of Black and Africana philosophy; and fourth, the essential role of African American language in understanding Black lived experience.

Representing twenty years of persistent inquiry and advocacy, Across Black Spaces celebrates Yancy's undeniable importance in American intellectual progress and essential social change.

Table of contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part 1: Writing While Black: Bearing the Weight of Public Witnessing
• Part 2: Untying Odysseus: Traversing Black Philosophical Fragments
• Part 3: Doing Philosophy in Black: Foundational Traces and the Weight of the Present
• Part 4: Meaning-Making and the Generative Space of Black Performative Discourse
• Notes
• Index
• About the Author