White on White/Black on Black

by Cornel West (Foreword by), Kal Alston (Contribution by), Molefi Kete Asante (Contribution by), Bettina G. Bergo (Contribution by), Robert Bernasconi (Contribution by)

Overview

White on White/Black on Black is a unique contribution to the philosophy of race. The book explores how fourteen philosophers, seven white and seven black, philosophically understand the dynamics of the process of racialization. Combined, the contributions demonstrate different and similar conceptual trajectories of raced identities that emerge from within and across the racial divide. Each of the fourteen philosophers, who share a textual space of exploration, name blackness/whiteness, revealing significant political, cultural, and existential aspects of what it means to be black/white. Through the power of naming and theorizing whiteness and blackness, White on White/Black on Black dares to bring clarity and complexity to our understanding of race identity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780742568730
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	03/31/2005
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
File size:	485 KB

About the Author

George Yancy is McAnulty Fellow in the Philosophy Department at Duquesne University.
Molefi Kete Asante is Professor of Africology at Temple University, USA.
George Yancy is the Samuel Candler Dobbs professor of philosophy at Emory University and a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College. Yancy has published over 250 combined scholarly articles, chapters, and interviews that have appeared in professional journals, books, and at various news sites. Yancy is known for his numerous essays and interviews in the New York Times' philosophy column The Stone, and Truthout. He is the author, editor and co-editor of over 25 books, including most recently Until Our Lungs Give Out: Conversations on Race, Justice, and the Future and In Sheep's Clothing: The Idolatry of White Christian Nationalism (coedited with philosopher Bill Bywater. Yancy is editor of the Philosophy of Race Book Series at Bloomsbury.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Introduction
Part 3 Part I: White on White
Chapter 4 Waking Up White and in Memphis
Chapter 5 White and Cracking Up
Chapter 6 "Wigger"
Chapter 7 Unmasking through Naming: Toward an Ethic and Africology of Whiteness
Chapter 8 Meditations on Post-Supremacist Philosophy
Chapter 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 Back
Part 11 Part II: Black on Black
Chapter 12 (Re)Conceptualizing Blackness and Making Race Obsolescent
Chapter 13 Blackness as an Ethical Trope: Toward a Post-Western Assertion
Chapter 14 Tongue Smell Color black
Chapter 15 "Seeing Blackness" from Within The Manichean Divide
Chapter 16 Blackness and the Quest for Authenticity
Chapter 17 Act Your Age and Not Your Color: Blackness as Material Conditions, Presumptive Context, and Social Category
Chapter 18 Knowing Blackness, Becoming Blackness, Valuing Blackness

Editorial Reviews

By calling upon the academic community to value Blackness and challenge white supremacist cultural values, this text provides a provocative contribution to the study of race relations in America today.

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