White on White/Black on Black

George Yancy is McAnulty Fellow in the Philosophy Department at Duquesne University.

• Chapter 1 ForewordChapter 2 IntroductionPart 3 Part I: White on WhiteChapter 4 Waking Up White and in MemphisChapter 5 White and Cracking UpChapter 6 "Wigger"Chapter 7 Unmasking through Naming: Toward an Ethic and Africology of WhitenessChapter 8 Meditations on Post-Supremacist PhilosophyChapter 9 Racialization as an Aesthetic Production: What Does the Aesthetic Do for Whiteness and Blackness and Vice Versa?Chapter 10 "Circulez! Il n'y a rien à voir," Or, "Seeing White": From Phenomenology to Psychoanalysis and BackPart 11 Part II: Black on BlackChapter 12 (Re)Conceptualizing Blackness and Making Race ObsolescentChapter 13 Blackness as an Ethical Trope: Toward a Post-Western AssertionChapter 14 Tongue Smell Color blackChapter 15 "Seeing Blackness" from Within The Manichean DivideChapter 16 Blackness and the Quest for AuthenticityChapter 17 Act Your Age and Not Your Color: Blackness as Material Conditions, Presumptive Context, and Social CategoryChapter 18 Knowing Blackness, Becoming Blackness, Valuing Blackness

Yancy’s anthology, with its collection of philosophers of race, makes flesh of the oft-challenged pairing of race and philosophy—sinuous tissues of identity, autobiography, history, and ideology.