George Yancy is the author, editor, and co-editor of over 20 books, including Backlash: What Happens When we Talk Honestly About Racism in America. He is known for his influential essays and interviews in the New York Times' philosophy column, The Stone. 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.

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Tim Wise

Introduction: Critical Voices that Refuse to be Silenced

George Yancy

Part 1: Whiteness as Innocence Must Die

• It's Time for "Whiteness as Usual" to End: How do we Overcome the Death Wish of White Supremacy?

Interview with David R. Roediger

• To be Black in the US is to Have a Knee Against Your Neck Each Day

Interview with George Yancy by Woojin Lim

• Confronting Prejudice isn't Enough: We Must Eradicate the White Racial Frame

Interview with Joe Feagin

• We Have to Let White Supremacy Die in Order to Truly Live

Interview with David Kyuman Kim

Part 2: Global Anti-Blackness

• Afropessimism Forces Us to Rethink Our Most Basic Assumptions About Society

Interview with Frank B. Wilderson, III

• "I Can't Breathe" Is a Cry Well Known to Black Indigenous People in Australia

Interview with Chelsea Watego

• Black Feminist "Back Talk" Anchors Resistance on Both Sides of the Atlantic

Interview with Akwugo Emejulu

• Anti-Black Racism is Global: So Must be the Movement to End It

Interview with Adele Norris

Part 3: Racism, Education, and Practices of Freedom

• Trump is Attacking Critical Race Theory Because it is a Force for Liberation

Interview with Mari Matsuda

• Education Will be Critical in the Fight for Democracy and Anti-Racism

Interview with Pedro A. Noguera

• Paulo Freire: Critical Education in a World in Need of Repair

Interview with Peter McLaren

Part 4: Challenging White Foundations

• The Tulsa Race Massacre Went Way Beyond "Black Wall Street"

Interview with Robin D.G. Kelley

• The Whiteness of Harvard and Wall Street is "Jim Crow, New Style"

Interview with Cornel West

• US Founders Demonized Indigenous People While Coopting their Political Practices

Interview with Brian Burkhart

• Founded on Inequality, Can the US Ever be Truly Democratic and Inclusive?

Interview with Tracy Denean Sharpley-Whiting

Part 5: Assaults on the Black Body

• White Indifference is Normalizing Spectacular Acts of Violence

Interview with Robin D.G. Kelley

• White Journalists are Still Using the N-Word: This is an Intolerable Assault on Black Freedom

Interview with Elizabeth Pryor

• Protests Unleashed by Murder of George Floyd Exceed All in US History

Interview with Noam Chomsky

Part 6: Matters of Faith and Religion

• Black Womanist Theology Offers Hope in the Face of White Supremacy

Interview with Kelly Brown Douglas

• Christianity is Empty if it Doesn't Address the Racist Carceral State

Interview with Mark L. Taylor

• White Supremacist Christianity Drives Trump's Loyal Mob: We Must Scream it Down

Interview with Susannah Heschel

Part 7: The Politics of Catastrophe

• Mourning is a Political Act Amid the Pandemic and its Disparities

Interview with Judith Butler

• Trump's Lying about COVID Amounts to Treason

Interview with Eduardo Mendieta

• Big Pharma Cares More About Profiting from COVID than Human Survival

Interview with Noam Chomsky

Part 8: Realizing (or Imagining) the Possible

• Black Trans Feminist Thought Can Set Us Free

Interview with Che Gossett

• Reaching Beyond "Black Faces in High Places"

Interview with Joy James

Part 9: White Mob Mentality

• The Capitol Siege was White Supremacy in Action: Trial Evidence Confirms That

Interview with Peniel E. Joseph

• Capitol Mob Reveals Ongoing Refusal to Accept Black Votes as Legitimate

Interview with Eric Fonner

• Trump has Adopted a "Viva Death!" Approach to the Presidency

Interview with Noam Chomsky

About the Contributors

Index