Black Men from Behind the Veil

George Yancy

doi:10.5771/9781666906486

Summary

The Black male scholars within this important book are painfully aware that the brutal murder of George Floyd was not due to a few "bad apples." They understand that they are perceived as "threats" and "criminals" within a distorted white imaginary that is embedded with processes of mythopoetic construction, racial capitalism, and a deep anti-Black male social ontology. Edited by prominent philosopher George Yancy, Black Men from behind the Veil: Ontological Interrogations emphasizes the importance of Black male epistemic agency and the courage to speak the truth regarding an America that values Black male life on the cheap and that attempts to control the movement of Black men, their capacity to breathe, and their being through anti-Black technologies of surveillance, confinement, policing, and white nation-building. There is no single monolithic Black male voice that dominates this crucial and necessary text. Each voice speaks of pain behind the Veil, revealing narrative specificity and an important recursive truth: Black men, within the white American psyche, are both necessary and yet disposable. The existential and sociohistorical weight of this truth is made painfully clear through the voices of these Black men.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-0647-9
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-0648-6
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 224
Product type: Edited Book

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
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1. Philosophizing while Black No access
2. Academic Policing and the Black Male No access
3. Black Male Existence, Varieties of Credibility Deficits, and Structures of Injustice No access
4. Notes No access
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1. Introduction: Falling of the Scales No access
2. Rethinking the State of War: It’s Not Hypothetical No access
3. The Founding Murder and the War on Blackness No access
4. George Floyd and the War on Black Men No access
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1. Introduction No access
2. Disaggregating Death by Police: Theorizing Misandric Aggression as the Basis of Disproportionate Male Killings No access
3. Conclusion: Until the Next Time There Is Another Mr. Floyd No access
4. Notes No access
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1. Black Men as Inhabitants of the Philosophical Problem of Truth No access
2. The Biological, the Political, and Black Male Breath No access
3. Breathing and Breathlessness No access
4. The Proliferation of Theory and Epistemic Failure No access
5. Nature of the Crisis and the Need for Phenomenological Intervention No access
6. After Theory No access
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1. Necropolitics No access
2. Bushwick No access
3. Burning Bushwick No access
4. Gone with the Ashes No access
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1. Embodying Criminality No access
2. Even the Dog Is Better Recognized No access
3. Is Being African Caribbean the Same as Being Black? No access
4. Conclusion No access
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1. Snuffing Out the Magic: Western Hegemony and the Colonization of Identity No access
2. Growth through Alienation No access
3. Nepantla: Drag, Identitive Activism, and Blackness No access
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1. Introduction No access
2. Family Break Up and Existential Anguish No access
3. The Dialectics of (Il)Legal Humiliation No access
4. An Awakening to (Il)Legal Decadence No access
5. Lawlessness and Loss No access
6. Trauma, Degradation, and Memory: Transforming the Self No access
7. Conclusion: Decadence and Disillusionment in the Age of American Catastrophe No access
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1. We Need a New “Niggerati” and More Alternatives to Conventionally Conceived Black Masculinity: The Harlem Renaissance, The Hip Hop Movement, Masculinity, and Sexuality No access
2. Blackness, Maleness, and Queerness: Patriarchal Queerness, Internalized (Hetero)Sexism, and the Queer Hip Hop Movement No access
3. Offering an Alternative to Hip Hop Hypermasculinity and Heteronormativity: An Autobiographical Interlude No access
4. The Hip Hop Movement: Moving Away from Hip Hop Hypermasculinity and Heteronormativity toward Hip Hop Radical Humanism, Anti-racism, Anti-Sexism, Anti-Heterosexism, and Anti-Capitalism No access
5. Notes No access
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1. The Plight of George Floyd: Personal Reflections on Present Problems and Future Prospects No access
2. Bourgeois Philosophy and the Negation of Black Life No access
3. Philosophical Considerations on Political Economic Contradictions No access
4. Philosophical Considerations on Practical Concerns No access
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Index No access Pages 213 - 220
About the Contributors No access Pages 221 - 224