Center Must Not Hold

George Yancy is associate professor of philosophy at Duquesne University and author of Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race. He is also coeditor of Critical Perspectives on bell hooks and Narrative Identities: Psychologists Engaged in Self-Construction and editor of Philosophy in Multiple Voices, White on White/Black on Black, What White Looks Like: African American Philosophers on the Whiteness Question, The Philosophical I: Personal Reflections on Life in Philosophy, Cornel West: A Critical Reader, and African-American Philosophers: 17 Conversations.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Troublemaking AlliesChapter 1. White Ignorance and the Denials of Complicity: On the Possibility of Doing Philosophy in Good FaithChapter 2. Knowing What the Ending Will Be: Pragmatism and White Cultural AuthorityChapter 3. On Intersectionality and the Whiteness of Feminist PhilosophyChapter 4. The Man of Culture: The Civilized and the Barbarian in Western PhilosophyChapter 5. Whiteness and Rationality: Feminist Dialogue on Race in Academic Institutional SpacesChapter 6. Appropriate Subjects: Whiteness and the Discipline of PhilosophyChapter 7. Color in the Theory of Colors? Or: Are Philosophers' Colors All White?Chapter 8. The Secularity of Philosophy: Race, Religion, and the Silence of ExclusionChapter 9. Philosophy's Whiteness and the Loss of WisdomChapter 10. Against the Whiteness of Ethics: Dilemmatizing as a Critical ApproachChapter 11. The Whiteness of Anti-Racist White Philosophical AddressChapter 12. Colonial Practices/Colonial Identities: RacialFormation and White Feminist Academic DiscourseChapter 13. Is Philosophy Anything if it Isn't White?

How can intelligent, well-meaning lovers of wisdom become so unwise? In The Center Must Not Hold, George Yancy brings together contributors who confront this urgent question with candid, thoughtful analyses of their own whiteness, the whiteliness of Philosophy and the pitfalls of anti-racist and feminist theorizing. Let us listen to these white women allies in our quest to create self-reflective, inclusive, and coalitional philosophies so as to destabilize the reign of whiteness in a discipline that professes not only the love of wisdom but also the love of justice.