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Black Men from behind the Veil: Ontological Interrogations

Black Men from behind the Veil: Ontological Interrogations

Boko, Semassa
Yancy, George
Houston a. Baker, Jr.

Paperback

Series: Philosophy of Race

PhilosophyGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 1666906492
ISBN13: 9781666906493
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Aug 15 2023
Pages: 234
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Black male scholars within this important book are painfully aware that the brutal murder of George Floyd was not due to a few bad apples. They understand that they are perceived as threats and criminals within a distorted white imaginary that is embedded with processes of mythopoetic construction, racial capitalism, and a deep anti-Black male social ontology. Edited by prominent philosopher George Yancy, Black Men from behind the Veil: Ontological Interrogations emphasizes the importance of Black male epistemic agency and the courage to speak the truth regarding an America that values Black male life on the cheap and that attempts to control the movement of Black men, their capacity to breathe, and their being through anti-Black technologies of surveillance, confinement, policing, and white nation-building. There is no single monolithic Black male voice that dominates this crucial and necessary text. Each voice speaks of pain behind the Veil, revealing narrative specificity and an important recursive truth: Black men, within the white American psyche, are both necessary and yet disposable. The existential and sociohistorical weight of this truth is made painfully clear through the voices of these Black men.

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