ISBN:
9781666906486
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (x, 224 pages)
,
Illustrations
Series Statement:
Philosophy of Race
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Black men from behind the veil
DDC:
305.896/073
Keywords:
African American men Social conditions 21st century
;
Racial profiling in law enforcement
;
African Americans Social conditions 21st century
;
Racism
;
Racial profiling in law enforcement-United States
;
Electronic books
;
United States Race relations
;
Schwarze
;
Mann
;
Verbrechensopfer
;
Gewalt
;
Rassismus
;
Rassendiskriminierung
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 1: Incarcerating Blackness: My Nephew, His Letter from an Arizona Prison, Our Reflections -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Philosophy as Excited Delirium and the Credibility Deficit of the Black Male -- Philosophizing while Black -- Academic Policing and the Black Male -- Black Male Existence, Varieties of Credibility Deficits, and Structures of Injustice -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Emmett Till's Body -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: The War on Blackness: Black Men and the State of the Union -- Introduction: Falling of the Scales -- Rethinking the State of War: It's Not Hypothetical -- The Founding Murder and the War on Blackness -- George Floyd and the War on Black Men -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: Blues Sons and Sorrow's Kitchen -- Note -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: Disaggregating Death: George Floyd and the Significance of Black Male Mortality in Police Encounters -- Introduction -- Disaggregating Death by Police: Theorizing Misandric Aggression as the Basis of Disproportionate Male Killings -- Conclusion: Until the Next Time There Is Another Mr. Floyd -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7: Theory, Epistemic Failure, and the Problem of (Hue)Man Suffering: A Phenomenology of Breathlessness -- Black Men as Inhabitants of the Philosophical Problem of Truth -- The Biological, the Political, and Black Male Breath -- Breathing and Breathlessness -- The Proliferation of Theory and Epistemic Failure -- Nature of the Crisis and the Need for Phenomenological Intervention -- After Theory -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8: What's Happening Brother? -- Necropolitics -- Bushwick -- Burning Bushwick -- Gone with the Ashes -- Notes -- Bibliography.
Abstract:
Black Men from Behind the Veil bears witness to anti-Black male violence and does so from the perspective of Black male scholars who disclose their fears and what it means to suffer as Black men, courageously marking the deep material, institutional, and epistemic structures that amplify that fear and suffering.
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