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<p><span>Award-winning author, scholar, and social visionary George Yancy brings together the greatest minds of our time to speak truth to power and welcome everyone into a conversation about the pursuit of justice, equality, and peace.</span></p>

<p><span>Acknowledgments</span></p>
<p><span>Foreword </span></p>
<p><span>Tim Wise</span></p>
<p><span>Introduction: Critical Voices that Refuse to be Silenced</span></p>
<p><span>George Yancy</span></p>
<p><span>Part 1: Whiteness as Innocence Must Die</span></p>
<ol start="1">
<li><span>It’s Time for “Whiteness as Usual” to End: How do we Overcome the Death Wish of White Supremacy?</span></li>
</ol>
<p><span>Interview with David R. Roediger</span></p>
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<li><span>To be Black in the US is to Have a Knee Against Your Neck Each Day</span></li>
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<p><span>Interview with George Yancy by Woojin Lim</span></p>
<ol start="3">
<li><span>Confronting Prejudice isn’t Enough: We Must Eradicate the White Racial Frame</span></li>
</ol>
<p><span>Interview with Joe Feagin</span></p>
<ol start="4">
<li><span>We Have to Let White Supremacy Die in Order to Truly Live</span></li>
</ol>
<p><span>Interview with David Kyuman Kim</span></p>
<p><span>Part 2: Global Anti-Blackness</span></p>
<ol start="5">
<li><span>Afropessimism Forces Us to Rethink Our Most Basic Assumptions About Society</span></li>
</ol>
<p><span>Interview with Frank B. Wilderson, III</span></p>
<ol start="6">
<li><span>“I Can’t Breathe” Is a Cry Well Known to Black Indigenous People in Australia</span></li>
</ol>
<p><span>Interview with Chelsea Watego</span></p>
<ol start="7">
<li><span>Black Feminist “Back Talk” Anchors Resistance on Both Sides of the Atlantic</span></li>
</ol>
<p><span>Interview with Akwugo Emejulu</span></p>
<ol start="8">
<li><span>Anti-Black Racism is Global: So Must be the Movement to End It</span></li>
</ol>
<p><span>Interview with Adele Norris</span></p>
<p><span>Part 3: Racism, Education, and Practices of Freedom</span></p>
<ol start="9">
<li><span>Trump is Attacking Critical Race Theory Because it is a Force for Liberation</span></li>
</ol>
<p><span>Interview with Mari Matsuda</span></p>
<ol start="10">
<li><span>Education Will be Critical in the Fight for Democracy and Anti-Racism</span></li>
</ol>
<p><span>Interview with Pedro A. Noguera</span></p>
<ol start="11">
<li><span>Paulo Freire: Critical Education in a World in Need of Repair</span></li>
</ol>
<p><span>Interview with Peter McLaren</span></p>
<p><span>Part 4: Challenging White Foundations </span></p>
<ol start="12">
<li><span>The Tulsa Race Massacre Went Way Beyond “Black Wall Street”</span></li>
</ol>
<p><span>Interview with Robin D.G. Kelley</span></p>
<ol start="13">
<li><span>The Whiteness of Harvard and Wall Street is “Jim Crow, New Style”</span></li>
</ol>
<p><span>Interview with Cornel West</span></p>
<ol start="14">
<li><span>US Founders Demonized Indigenous People While Coopting their Political Practices</span></li>
</ol>
<p><span>Interview with Brian Burkhart</span></p>
<ol start="15">
<li><span>Founded on Inequality, Can the US Ever be Truly Democratic and Inclusive?</span></li>
</ol>
<p><span>Interview with Tracy Denean Sharpley-Whiting</span></p>
<p><span>Part 5: Assaults on the Black Body</span></p>
<ol start="16">
<li><span>White Indifference is Normalizing Spectacular Acts of Violence</span></li>
</ol>
<p><span>Interview with Robin D.G. Kelley</span></p>
<ol start="17">
<li><span>White Journalists are Still Using the N-Word: This is an Intolerable Assault on Black Freedom</span></li>
</ol>
<p><span>Interview with Elizabeth Pryor</span></p>
<ol start="18">
<li><span>Protests Unleashed by Murder of George Floyd Exceed All in US History</span></li>
</ol>
<p><span>Interview with Noam Chomsky</span></p>
<p><span>Part 6: Matters of Faith and Religion</span></p>
<ol start="19">
<li><span>Black Womanist Theology Offers Hope in the Face of White Supremacy</span></li>
</ol>
<p><span>Interview with Kelly Brown Douglas</span></p>
<ol start="20">
<li><span>Christianity is Empty if it Doesn’t Address the Racist Carceral State</span></li>
</ol>
<p><span>Interview with Mark L. Taylor</span></p>
<ol start="21">
<li><span>White Supremacist Christianity Drives Trump’s Loyal Mob: We Must Scream it Down</span></li>
</ol>
<p><span>Interview with Susannah Heschel</span></p>
<p><span>Part 7: The Politics of Catastrophe</span></p>
<ol start="22">
<li><span>Mourning is a Political Act Amid the Pandemic and its Disparities</span></li>
</ol>
<p><span>Interview with Judith Butler</span></p>
<ol start="23">
<li><span>Trump’s Lying about COVID Amounts to Treason</span></li>
</ol>
<p><span>Interview with Eduardo Mendieta</span></p>
<ol start="24">
<li><span>Big Pharma Cares More About Profiting from COVID than Human Survival</span></li>
</ol>
<p><span>Interview with Noam Chomsky</span></p>
<p><span>Part 8: Realizing (or Imagining) the Possible</span></p>
<ol start="25">
<li><span>Black Trans Feminist Thought Can Set Us Free</span></li>
</ol>
<p><span>Interview with Che Gossett</span></p>
<ol start="26">
<li><span>Reaching Beyond “Black Faces in High Places”</span></li>
</ol>
<p><span>Interview with Joy James</span></p>
<p><span>Part 9: White Mob Mentality</span></p>
<ol start="27">
<li><span>The Capitol Siege was White Supremacy in Action: Trial Evidence Confirms That</span></li>
</ol>
<p><span>Interview with Peniel E. Joseph</span></p>
<ol start="28">
<li><span>Capitol Mob Reveals Ongoing Refusal to Accept Black Votes as Legitimate</span></li>
</ol>
<p><span>Interview with Eric Fonner</span></p>
<ol start="29">
<li><span>Trump has Adopted a “Viva Death!” Approach to the Presidency</span></li>
</ol>
<p><span>Interview with Noam Chomsky</span></p>
<p><span>About the Contributors</span></p>
<p><span>Index</span></p>
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<p><span>George Yancy </span><span>is the author, editor, and co-editor of over 20 books, including </span><span>Backlash: What Happens When we Talk Honestly About Racism in America</span><span>. He is known for his influential essays and interviews in the </span><span>New York Times</span><span>' philosophy column, </span><span>The Stone</span><span>. Adding to his many awards in recognitions, in March 2022, Yancy was honored to discover an anonymous muralist known as “Belove” had painted Yancy’s larger-the-life portrait in downtown Denver. Yancy lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he is professor of philosophy at Emory University.</span></p>

<p><span>2/2/23, Choice: This book was included in a roundup of forthcoming titles in African American studies.</span></p>
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