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2 months ago | 
truthout.org | George Yancy |White Gazes |A White
To me, celebrating Black History Month means honoring the importance of Black knowledge production and emphasizing the deep and enduring themes of Black life, from structures that continue to oppress Black people to courageous forms of political and existential resistance. With this understanding in mind, I think it is crucial that we focus on critical race theory (CRT) and its founder, Derrick Bell, who in 1971 became the first Black tenured professor at Harvard Law School.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
truthout.org | George Yancy |White Gazes |A White
After the election, I received several texts and email messages expressing a deep sense of sorrow, angst, dread and heartbreak. Personally, I felt that sense of anger. Specifically, I share Audre Lorde’s frankness: “My response to racism is anger.” My claim is not that every single person who voted for Donald Trump is a racist, a card-carrying white supremacist.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
truthout.org | George Yancy |White Gazes |A White
Part of the Series The Road to Abolition We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition is a call to rethink and re-practice the deeper everyday meaning, existential vitality and vulnerability of abolition praxis. As a co-parent of Black sons, I was deeply moved by Maya Schenwar and Kim Wilson’s new anthology, which invited me to rethink how structures of carceral domination are designed to break the bonds that unite us as caregivers and as human beings.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
scheerpost.com | George Yancy
By George Yancy / TruthoutIn The Black Image in the White Mind, historian George M.
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
truthout.org | George Yancy |White Gazes |A White
In The Black Image in the White Mind, historian George M.
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Sep 8, 2024 | 
truthout.org | George Yancy |White Gazes |A White
Part of the SeriesStruggle and Solidarity: Writing Toward Palestinian Liberation“I see promise in the connections between the 2020 protests against anti-Blackness and the 2023-2024 protests against Palestinian genocide,” Palestinian American scholar Zahi Zalloua told me this summer.
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Sep 1, 2024 | 
truthout.org | George Yancy |White Gazes |A White
Part of the SeriesStruggle and Solidarity: Writing Toward Palestinian LiberationIn my book, Black Bodies, White Gazes, I interrogate the white gaze, which I describe as a structural and habitual way of racially distorting the world in binary and hierarchical terms, buttressed by ideological, material and institutional power. In that book, I argue for the dismantlement of whiteness and the eradication of the white gaze.
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Jul 6, 2024 | 
truthout.org | George Yancy |White Gazes |A White
This year, the 300th anniversary of the birth of German philosopher Immanuel Kant was commemorated. Born on April 22, 1724, Kant was a significant philosophical figure of the Enlightenment. Three centuries later, Western formulations of freedom, dignity and equality are still inseparable from his name and work. But on this anniversary, we cannot ignore the legacy of racism that Kant’s liberal humanism engenders.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
truthout.org | George Yancy |White Gazes |A White
The concept of complete freedom from the weight of racial oppression/anti-Blackness has always been a dream for Black people in the United States, where racist policing, vigilante violence, mass incarceration and acute economic oppression carry on the legacy of the racist system of slavery on which the nation’s economy was built.
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Jun 9, 2024 | 
truthout.org | George Yancy |White Gazes |A White
Part of the SeriesStruggle and Solidarity: Writing Toward Palestinian LiberationIsrael’s likely war crimes and genocide in Gaza since October — as well as its brutality in the decades preceding its recent attacks — are unconscionable. Yet pro-Israeli powers refuse to recognize any of the atrocities in Gaza and the West Bank, and continue to police our collective grief over the outrageous carnage with accusations of antisemitism.
