Black bodies, white gazes

Description

Following the deaths of Trayvon Martin and other black youths in recent years, students on campuses across America have joined professors and activists in calling for justice and increased awareness that Black Lives Matter. In this second edition of his trenchant and provocative book, George Yancy offers students the theoretical framework they crave for understanding the violence perpetrated against the Black body. Drawing from the lives of Ossie Davis, Frantz Fanon, Malcolm X, and W.E.B. Du Bois, as well as his own experience, and fully updated to account for what has transpired since the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, Yancy provides an invaluable resource for anyone who wishes to examine what it means to be Black in America.

Description

"Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race understands Black embodiment within the context of white hegemony within the context of a racist, anti-Black world. George Yancy examines themes such as double consciousness, invisibility, and corporeal malediction that capture the lived reality of Black bodies under tremendous existential duress. He demonstrates that the Black body is a historically lived text on which whites have inscribed their projections which speak equally forcefully to whites' own self-conceptions."--Jacket.

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Other Editions

• Black bodies, white gazes: the continuing significance of raceRowman & Littlefield Pub.2008-01-01
• Black Bodies, White GazesRowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated2008-01-01
• Black bodies, white gazesRowman & Littlefield Publishers2017-01-01