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Subject(s)

• African American men—United States—Social conditions—21st century [Browse]
• Racial profiling in law enforcement—United States [Browse]
• United States—Race relations [Browse]
• African Americans—Social conditions—21st century [Browse]
• Racism—United States [Browse]

Editor

• Yancy, George [Browse]

Series

Philosophy of race [More in this series]

Summary note

"Black Men from Behind the Veil bears witness to anti-Black male violence and does so from the perspective of Black male scholars who disclose their fears and what it means to suffer as Black men, courageously marking the deep material, institutional, and epistemic structures that amplify that fear and suffering"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction: Speaking Behind and To the Veil / George Yancy
• Incarcerating Blackness: My Nephew, His Letter from an Arizona Prison, Our Reflections / William David Hart
• Philosophy as Excited Delirium and the Credibility Deficit of the Black Male / Clevis Headley
• Emmett Till's Body / A. Todd Franklin
• The War on Blackness: Black Men and the State of the Union / Arnold L. Farr
• Blues Sons and Sorrow's Kitchen / Houston A. Baker, Jr.
• Disaggregating Death: George Floyd and the Significance of Black Male Mortality in Police Encounters / Tommy J. Curry
• Theory, Epistemic Failure, and the Problem of (Hue)Man Suffering / Timothy J. Golden
• What's Happening Brother? / Josiah Ulysses Young III
• To be Over-Determined from Without: Negotiating White Supremacy from Corporeal Blackness / Linden F. Lewis
• Navigating the Aguala: Blackness, Shamans and Drag Queens / Sterlin Mosley
• Power, Divorce, and Trauma: Law and Loss / Floyd W. Hayes III
• Black Subversive Memory and a Black Progressive Leadership as Resources for Black Male Engagement in Prolonged Resistance Against White Power Structures / Joseph Smith
• Alternative Hip Hop Masculinity: On Hip Hop Hypermasculinity, Heteronormativity & Radical Humanism / Reiland Rabaka
• How Black Lives Matter and Why Revolutionary Philosophy is Relevant: Philosophical Considerations on Ideological and Political Economic Contradictions / John H. McClendon III
• The Spectacle Lynching and Modern-Day Crucifixion of George Floyd
• When the World is a Witness to Murder / Aaron X. Smith
• Blood on the Check / Semassa Boko.

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ISBN

• 9781666906479 (hardcover)
• 1666906476 (hardcover)

LCCN

2021044330

OCLC

1274230740

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