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  • “I Don’t See Color” Personal and Critical Perspectives on White Privilege

    Who is white, and why should we care? There was a time when the immigrants of New York City’s Lower East Side—the Irish, the Poles, the Italians, the Russian Jews—were not white, but now “they” are. There was a time when the French-speaking working classes of Quebec were told to “speak white,” that is, to…

  • The Invisible Asian

    The Invisible Asian The New York Times 2015-10-07 George Yancy, Professor of Philosophy Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia David Haekwon Kim, Associate Professor of Philosophy University of San Francisco This is the latest in a series of interviews about philosophy of race that I am conducting for The Stone. This week’s conversation is with David Haekwon Kim, an…

  • Kwame Anthony Appiah: The Complexities of Black Folk

    Kwame Anthony Appiah: The Complexities of Black Folk The Stone The New York Times 2015-04-16 George Yancy, Professor of Philosophy Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Kwame Anthony Appiah, Professor of Law and Philosophy New York University Kwame Anthony Appiah This is the 10th in a series of interviews with philosophers on race that I am conducting…

  • Asian, American, Woman, Philosopher

    Asian, American, Woman, Philosopher The Stone The New York Times 2015-04-06 George Yancy, Professor of Philosophy Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Emily S. Lee, Associate Professor of Philosophy California State University, Fullerton This is the ninth in a series of interviews with philosophers on race that I am conducting for The Stone. This week’s conversation is…

  • White Anxiety and the Futility of Black Hope

    White Anxiety and the Futility of Black Hope The New York Times 2014-12-05 George Yancy, Professor of Philosophy Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Shannon Sullivan, Professor of Philosophy University of North Carolina, Charlotte This is the third in a series of interviews with philosophers on race that I am conducting for The Stone. This week’s conversation…

  • What ‘White Privilege’ Really Means

    This is the first in a series of interviews with philosophers on race that I am conducting for The Stone. This week’s conversation is with Naomi Zack, a professor of philosophy at the University of Oregon and the author of “The Ethics and Mores of Race: Equality After the History of Philosophy.” The interview was…

  • As a black president, he has given voice to the epistemic violence that blacks often face as they are stereotyped and profiled within the context of quotidian social spaces.

    The president’s words, perhaps consigned to a long-ago news cycle now, remain powerful: they validate experiences that blacks have undergone in their everyday lives. Obama’s voice resonates with those philosophical voices (Frantz Fanon, for example) that have long attempted to describe the lived interiority of racial experiences. He has also deployed the power of narrative…

  • Walking While Black in the ‘White Gaze’

    Walking While Black in the ‘White Gaze’ The New York Times 2013-09-01 George Yancy, Professor of Philosophy Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania “Man, I almost blew you away!” Those were the terrifying words of a white police officer — one of those who policed black bodies in low income areas in North Philadelphia in the late…