GEORGE YANCY: How Can Philosophy Speak to a World in Crisis? The Answer May Lie in Our Bodies
Whether we are ill, depressed, anxious, suffering from injustice, a refugee, incarcerated — having contact with beauty can lift our spirits, rehumanizing us.
George Yancy: When Philosophy No Longer Smells of the Earth
In these times of narrow ideological allegiances and goose-stepping conformity, philosophers who ask “why?” as a challenge to the status quo are asking an unsafe question. And that fact, more than anything else, shows us why we need philosophy in times like these.
George Yancy and H.A. Nethery Discuss White Supremacy and “White Innocence”
A conversation in response to the murder of three Black people in Jacksonville, Florida by a white supremacist
George Yancy: Policing Does Not Have Problems — It Is the Problem
We must examine proactive ways to address the social issues that lead to crime and violence, which does not necessitate more police.
George Yancy: Let’s Honor Kevin Johnson by Dismantling the Systems That Failed Him
Last week, on November 29, the State of Missouri killed Kevin Johnson.
George Yancy: The “Problem” Isn’t Disabled Bodies — It’s the Violent Structure of Our Society
Christine Wieseler argues that medical models of disability “blame the victim” by emphasizing the idea of a conception of embodied normativity. In contrast, social models of disability rethink ways of “helping people to figure out how to live with impairments and chronic illnesses.”
George Yancy: If the State of the World Makes You Want to Scream, You’re Not Alone
We must face the weight of such social evils and be prepared to also face the ways in which we are complicit with them, especially when we are often indifferent.
George Yancy: What I Learned About Death From 7 Religious Scholars, 1 Atheist and My Father
Just a few days before my father died in 2014, I asked him a question some might find insensitive or inappropriate: “So, what are your thoughts now about dying?”
George Yancy: bell hooks, We Will Always Rage On With You
You see, bell, who left us on December 15, 2021, wasn’t just a public intellectual to me, a prominent writer; she was a friend.
George Yancy, Brian Burkhart: US Founders Demonized Indigenous People While Coopting Their Political Practices
In 1907, Peter Bryce did a study of Indian residential schools in Canada and discovered a 69 percent mortality rate among the students. Would you send your child to a “school” with a 69 percent mortality rate?
Robin D.G. Kelley and George Yancy: The Tulsa Race Massacre Went Way Beyond “Black Wall Street”
The 1921 Tulsa race massacre wrought widespread destruction. In addition to acknowledging the horror of that particular event, we must confront the systemic, genocidal, state-sanctioned, racist violence that is pervasive in the United States.
George Yancy: Cornel West | The Whiteness of Harvard and Wall Street Is “Jim Crow, New Style”
We are bluesmen and women and we are never, ever surprised by evil, we are never ever paralyzed by despair.
George Yancy: White Journalists Are Still Using the N-Word. This Is an Intolerable Assault on Black Freedom.
Two white journalists have stirred debate over their use of the n-word. Historian Elizabeth Pryor offers her analysis. When I read about the two Black Capitol Police officers who were … Continue reading
George Yancy: Capitol Mob Reveals Ongoing Refusal to Accept Black Votes as Legitimate
Frederick Douglass embraced the promise of the Declaration, even while he condemned the United States as a land of hypocrisy, because people talk about freedom, but in fact they deprive millions of their freedom.
