by George Yancy | Apr 21, 2026 | anti-Blackness, Christian nationalism, Christian Nationalists, Christianity, Donald Trump, Iran, iran war, JD Vance, Op-Ed, Pete Hegseth, Racial Justice, Religion, theology, Trump Administration, War, war in Iran, whiteness
As a philosopher, I am known for bringing a deeply uncomfortable truth to bear upon the hegemonic, hierarchical, and privileged embodied reality of whiteness. My aim has been to shape a critical discourse and produce a body of philosophical writing that reveals the ways in which whiteness functions as a mask, as a veil, to cover over the history of its violence. It does this through acts of denial…
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by Kim Wilson | Jan 8, 2026 | Emmett Till, Interview, Jim Crow, Racism, Trauma, US history, victimhood, White Supremacy, whiteness
Emmett Till is someone that we know through documentaries, writings, photos, and inadequate history lessons. Open Casket: Philosophical Meditations on the Lynching of Emmett Till draws us unsettlingly and lovingly close to Emmett Till, and to his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley. George Yancy’s and A. Todd Franklin’s breathtaking new anthology brings us face-to-face with the disquieting sorrow of Black…
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