White on White/Black on Black

Foreword by Cornel West Union Theological Seminary, Cornel West Union Theological Seminar Contributions by Kal Alston, Molefi Kete Asante author of Revolutionary Pedagogy: Primer for Teachers of Black Children, Bettina G. Bergo, Robert Bernasconi Pennsylvania State Univer, Janine Jones, Chris Cuomo, Clarence Sholé Johnson, John H. McClendon III, Greg Moses, Monique Roelofs, Crispin Sartwell Dickinson College, Anna Stubblefield Edited by George Yancy professor of philosophy, Emory University

Publication date:

31 March 2005

Length of book:

336 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Dimensions:

235x180mm
7x9"

ISBN-13: 9780742514805

White on White/Black on Black is a unique contribution to the philosophy of race. The book explores how fourteen philosophers, seven white and seven black, philosophically understand the dynamics of the process of racialization. Combined, the contributions demonstrate different and similar conceptual trajectories of raced identities that emerge from within and across the racial divide. Each of the fourteen philosophers, who share a textual space of exploration, name blackness/whiteness, revealing significant political, cultural, and existential aspects of what it means to be black/white. Through the power of naming and theorizing whiteness and blackness, White on White/Black on Black dares to bring clarity and complexity to our understanding of race identity.

Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Introduction
Part 3 Part I: White on White
Chapter 4 Waking Up White and in Memphis
Chapter 5 White and Cracking Up
Chapter 6 "Wigger"
Chapter 7 Unmasking through Naming: Toward an Ethic and Africology of Whiteness
Chapter 8 Meditations on Post-Supremacist Philosophy
Chapter 9 Racialization as an Aesthetic Production: What Does the Aesthetic Do for Whiteness and Blackness and Vice Versa?
Chapter 10 "Circulez! Il n'y a rien à voir," Or, "Seeing White": From Phenomenology to Psychoanalysis and Back
Part 11 Part II: Black on Black
Chapter 12 (Re)Conceptualizing Blackness and Making Race Obsolescent
Chapter 13 Blackness as an Ethical Trope: Toward a Post-Western Assertion
Chapter 14 Tongue Smell Color black
Chapter 15 "Seeing Blackness" from Within The Manichean Divide
Chapter 16 Blackness and the Quest for Authenticity
Chapter 17 Act Your Age and Not Your Color: Blackness as Material Conditions, Presumptive Context, and Social Category
Chapter 18 Knowing Blackness, Becoming Blackness, Valuing Blackness

Yancy’s anthology, with its collection of philosophers of race, makes flesh of the oft-challenged pairing of race and philosophy—sinuous tissues of identity, autobiography, history, and ideology.