Until Our Lungs Give Out: Conversations on Race, Justice, and the Future
Autor George Yancy Cuvânt înainte de Tim Wiseen Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 ian 2026
From Library Journal's Starred Review: "All readers stand to learn something from this compelling book."
Award-winning author, scholar, and social visionary George Yancy brings together the greatest minds of our time to speak truth to power and welcome everyone into a conversation about the pursuit of justice, equality, and peace.
This interwoven collection of searingly honest interviews with leading intellectuals includes conversations with Noam Chomsky, Judith Butler, Cornel West, Robin D. G. Kelley, and Peter McLaren. Each conversation bears witness to the weighty moment in which it was first conducted and presented by Truthout and Tikkun magazines while pointing to ramifications, future hurdles, and practical optimism for moving forward.
Learning how to speak about such topics as white supremacy and global whiteness, xenophobia, anti-BIPOC racism, fear of critical race theory, and the importance of Black feminist and trans perspectives, readers will be better able to join future conversations with their peers, those in power, and those who need to be empowered to change the status quo.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9798216371014
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 152 x 228 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 152 x 228 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Cuprins
Acknowledgments
Foreword, Tim Wise
Introduction: Critical Voices that Refuse to be Silenced, George Yancy
Part One: Whiteness as Innocence Must Die
1. It's Time for "Whiteness as Usual" to End: How do we Overcome the Death Wish of White Supremacy?: Interview with David R. Roediger
2. To be Black in the US is to Have a Knee Against Your Neck Each Day: Interview with George Yancy by Woojin Lim
3. Confronting Prejudice isn't Enough: We Must Eradicate the White Racial Frame: Interview with Joe Feagin
4. We Have to Let White Supremacy Die in Order to Truly Live: Interview with David Kyuman Kim
Part Two: Global Anti-Blackness
5. Afropessimism Forces Us to Rethink Our Most Basic Assumptions About Society: Interview with Frank B. Wilderson, III
6. "I Can't Breathe" Is a Cry Well Known to Black Indigenous People in Australia: Interview with Chelsea Watego
7. Black Feminist "Back Talk" Anchors Resistance on Both Sides of the Atlantic: Interview with Akwugo Emejulu
8. Anti-Black Racism is Global: So Must be the Movement to End It: Interview with Adele Norris
Part Three: Racism, Education, and Practices of Freedom
9. Trump is Attacking Critical Race Theory Because it is a Force for Liberation: Interview with Mari Matsuda
10. Education Will be Critical in the Fight for Democracy and Anti-Racism: Interview with Pedro A. Noguera
11. Paulo Freire: Critical Education in a World in Need of Repair: Interview with Peter McLaren
Part Four: Challenging White Foundations
12. The Tulsa Race Massacre Went Way Beyond "Black Wall Street": Interview with Robin D.G. Kelley
13. The Whiteness of Harvard and Wall Street is "Jim Crow, New Style": Interview with Cornel West
14. US Founders Demonized Indigenous People While Co-opting Their Political Practices: Interview with Brian Burkhart
15. Founded on Inequality, Can the US Ever be Truly Democratic and Inclusive?: Interview with Tracy Denean Sharpley-Whiting
Part Five: Assaults on the Black Body
16. White Indifference is Normalizing Spectacular Acts of Violence: Interview with Robin D.G. Kelley
17. White Journalists are Still Using the N-Word: This is an Intolerable Assault on Black Freedom: Interview with Elizabeth Pryor
18. Protests Unleashed by Murder of George Floyd Exceed All in US History: Interview with Noam Chomsky
Part Six: Matters of Faith and Religion
19. Black Womanist Theology Offers Hope in the Face of White Supremacy: Interview with Kelly Brown Douglas
20. Christianity is Empty if it Doesn't Address the Racist Carceral State: Interview with Mark L. Taylor
21. White Supremacist Christianity Drives Trump's Loyal Mob: We Must Scream it Down: Interview with Susannah Heschel
Part Seven: The Politics of Catastrophe
22. Mourning is a Political Act Amid the Pandemic and Its Disparities: Interview with Judith Butler
23. Trump's Lying about COVID Amounts to Treason: Interview with Eduardo Mendieta
24. Big Pharma Cares More About Profiting from COVID than Human Survival: Interview with Noam Chomsky
Part Eight: Realizing (or Imagining) the Possible
25. Black Trans Feminist Thought Can Set Us Free: Interview with Che Gossett
26. Reaching Beyond "Black Faces in High Places": Interview with Joy James
Part Nine: White Mob Mentality
27. The Capitol Siege was White Supremacy in Action: Trial Evidence Confirms That: Interview with Peniel E. Joseph
28. Capitol Mob Reveals Ongoing Refusal to Accept Black Votes as Legitimate: Interview with Eric Fonner
29. Trump has Adopted a "Viva Death!" Approach to the Presidency: Interview with Noam Chomsky
About the Contributors
Index
Foreword, Tim Wise
Introduction: Critical Voices that Refuse to be Silenced, George Yancy
Part One: Whiteness as Innocence Must Die
1. It's Time for "Whiteness as Usual" to End: How do we Overcome the Death Wish of White Supremacy?: Interview with David R. Roediger
2. To be Black in the US is to Have a Knee Against Your Neck Each Day: Interview with George Yancy by Woojin Lim
3. Confronting Prejudice isn't Enough: We Must Eradicate the White Racial Frame: Interview with Joe Feagin
4. We Have to Let White Supremacy Die in Order to Truly Live: Interview with David Kyuman Kim
Part Two: Global Anti-Blackness
5. Afropessimism Forces Us to Rethink Our Most Basic Assumptions About Society: Interview with Frank B. Wilderson, III
6. "I Can't Breathe" Is a Cry Well Known to Black Indigenous People in Australia: Interview with Chelsea Watego
7. Black Feminist "Back Talk" Anchors Resistance on Both Sides of the Atlantic: Interview with Akwugo Emejulu
8. Anti-Black Racism is Global: So Must be the Movement to End It: Interview with Adele Norris
Part Three: Racism, Education, and Practices of Freedom
9. Trump is Attacking Critical Race Theory Because it is a Force for Liberation: Interview with Mari Matsuda
10. Education Will be Critical in the Fight for Democracy and Anti-Racism: Interview with Pedro A. Noguera
11. Paulo Freire: Critical Education in a World in Need of Repair: Interview with Peter McLaren
Part Four: Challenging White Foundations
12. The Tulsa Race Massacre Went Way Beyond "Black Wall Street": Interview with Robin D.G. Kelley
13. The Whiteness of Harvard and Wall Street is "Jim Crow, New Style": Interview with Cornel West
14. US Founders Demonized Indigenous People While Co-opting Their Political Practices: Interview with Brian Burkhart
15. Founded on Inequality, Can the US Ever be Truly Democratic and Inclusive?: Interview with Tracy Denean Sharpley-Whiting
Part Five: Assaults on the Black Body
16. White Indifference is Normalizing Spectacular Acts of Violence: Interview with Robin D.G. Kelley
17. White Journalists are Still Using the N-Word: This is an Intolerable Assault on Black Freedom: Interview with Elizabeth Pryor
18. Protests Unleashed by Murder of George Floyd Exceed All in US History: Interview with Noam Chomsky
Part Six: Matters of Faith and Religion
19. Black Womanist Theology Offers Hope in the Face of White Supremacy: Interview with Kelly Brown Douglas
20. Christianity is Empty if it Doesn't Address the Racist Carceral State: Interview with Mark L. Taylor
21. White Supremacist Christianity Drives Trump's Loyal Mob: We Must Scream it Down: Interview with Susannah Heschel
Part Seven: The Politics of Catastrophe
22. Mourning is a Political Act Amid the Pandemic and Its Disparities: Interview with Judith Butler
23. Trump's Lying about COVID Amounts to Treason: Interview with Eduardo Mendieta
24. Big Pharma Cares More About Profiting from COVID than Human Survival: Interview with Noam Chomsky
Part Eight: Realizing (or Imagining) the Possible
25. Black Trans Feminist Thought Can Set Us Free: Interview with Che Gossett
26. Reaching Beyond "Black Faces in High Places": Interview with Joy James
Part Nine: White Mob Mentality
27. The Capitol Siege was White Supremacy in Action: Trial Evidence Confirms That: Interview with Peniel E. Joseph
28. Capitol Mob Reveals Ongoing Refusal to Accept Black Votes as Legitimate: Interview with Eric Fonner
29. Trump has Adopted a "Viva Death!" Approach to the Presidency: Interview with Noam Chomsky
About the Contributors
Index
Recenzii
Having admired the philosophical career and writings of George Yancy for some time, this reviewer can confidently assert that Until Our Lungs Give Out is another significant contribution to a long series of important texts on race and inclusion. Yancy's works are never easy, nor are they designed to pacify readers, even those who agree with their premises. His works are designed to open dialogues in an honest, vulnerable, and productive manner. This collected volume portrays individuals speaking honestly about their experiences, academic studies, and community involvement in a way that demonstrates how difficult conversations on topics such as the innocence of whiteness, body perceptions, and local and global racial discrimination can be meaningfully conducted. While emotion is honestly portrayed and acknowledged, the discussions are critical and philosophical. The speakers adhere to reasoned discussion and philosophical standards of argumentation. Indeed, when contextualized, each conversation represents a cogent response to the situations examined. In following philosophical rules of engagement, the book challenges readers to recognize and own their reactions to what is said and to engage in an active rather than passive reading experience.. Reading this book is both emotionally and intellectually challenging. However, it offers a way of undertaking difficult conversations that go beyond the binary entrenchment currently affecting politics, society, and education. Highly recommended. General readers through faculty; professionals.
Until Our Lungs Give Out is an important book on race and anti-Black racism that will command attention and reflection because it looks at the fundamental needs of humankind: equality, justice, and peace.University students, scholars, journalists, social activists and readers will find the book thought-provoking and an extensive research tool.
Award-winning Yancy presents this collection of interviews that are replete with ideas and insights about all that the pursuit of justice, equality, and peace entails. The author brings together leading intellectuals and philosophers-Noam Chomsky, Judith Butler, Cornel West, and Eric Foner, for example-to discuss the topic in raw, searing honesty. Author/scholar/activist Frank B. Wilderson III describes the impact of unrelenting oppression against Black people, and there are powerful chapters such as the one called, "To Be Black in the U.S. Is To Have a Knee Against Your Neck Every Day." The book also includes observations by somewhat lesser-known people: author Chelsea Watego; British-based political sociologist Akwugo Emejulu, and Brian Burkhart, and more. Explicitly addressed is the preposterous suggestion that everyone just "move on" from thinking about racism. This book's contributors say that the only way society can do that is if white people go through some type of kenosis about their prejudices and notions that people do not deserve the same rights. All readers stand to learn something from this compelling book.
George Yancy's new book Until Our Lungs Give Out: Conversations on Race, Justice, and the Future is not for the faint of heart. The volume, a collection of interviews with leading intellectuals, explores the historical trajectory of whiteness and anti-Blackness and their manifestation in education, healthcare, politics, and religion. The book's range is as geographically broad as it is intellectually all-encompassing, yet despite what might seem an unwieldy range of topics, there are certain structuring themes-in particular, the persistence of anti-Black racism-that give the volume a coherence of vision and purpose. Perhaps the most impressive characteristic of the text is the diversity-racial, gender, cultural, national, and religious-of its participants. The volume is not dominated by one disciplinary perspective, and as a result, the interviews/dialogues never become one-dimensional or myopic..I highly recommend Until Our Lungs Give Out for anyone who desires to obtain an informative and insightful understanding of a range of urgent issues. The careful reader will enjoy a truly rewarding intellectual experience. Moreover, open-minded white readers need not be offended or made to feel guilty by the powerful critique of American society the book mounts. Following Yancy, I believe that the courageous reader will experience an initially traumatic but ultimately invaluable kenosis.
These stimulating and wide-ranging engagements-from Noam Chomsky and Judith Butler, to Robin Kelley, Mari Matsuda, and Cornel West-remind us of the range and depth of philosophical knowledge that underscores George Yancy's work as a public intellectual as well as a scholar. This collection of conversations is a must-read for those of us seeking deeper understandings of the complex interactions of race, class, gender, and justice.
Until Our Lungs Give Out is a painfully relevant and indispensable book that brings together world-renowned scholars to collectively demonstrate what it looks like to face the horrors and deep conflicts of the world head on and to speak against them despite the dangers of doing so. As one of our nation's most searingly insightful philosophers, Yancy has prophetically modeled speaking truth in love and has steadfastly refused to sugarcoat the truth no matter the personal cost to him. This collection of critical conversations underscores the hard truth that we have neither been good stewards of the earth nor have we been good neighbors toward each other. We have failed to give the abundance of care that each one of us deserves. Until Our Lungs Give Out bears witness to a cadre of renowned peacemakers (not peacekeepers) who will fight for national and global justice, humanity and peace until their lungs give out.
Many thanks to philosopher and public intellectual George Yancy for this bounty of engaged thought from our foremost thinkers. We need this gift now more than ever-as a source of both perception and hope.
Robin D. G. Kelley poignantly captures the protests for racial justice during the surge in white nationalist retaliations. He states, 'If there is such a thing as the arc of the moral universe, it does not bend on its own. We bend it one way, our enemies bend it back.' George Yancy's interviews with Kelley and many of the most important thinkers and doers of our times inspire many ways we can go forward from here. These interviews are thought-provoking, forward-thinking, and inspiring about next steps.
Until Our Lungs Give Out is a timely and tremendously important book. It presents thoughtful and thought-provoking conversations between distinguished philosopher George Yancy and a dazzling array of the world's most profound, original, and generative thinkers about anti-Black racism in the U.S. and around the world.
The title of George Yancy's new collection of interviews tells it all: he gives voice to the top critical thinkers in today's struggle against racism and sexism, thinkers who persist in their struggle to the end, until their lungs give out. I've never seen a volume which combines multiple perspectives with a united strong commitment to emancipation. Until Our Lungs Give Out gives hope, and hope is what we need in our dark times.
In this set of interviews, George Yancy invites leading intellectuals to tarrywith global white supremacy, planetary anti-blackness, nocent settler-colonialism, structural misogyny, and insatiable capitalist extraction. The message and messengers are deeply political, philosophical, and pedagogical. At once an act of defiance and radical love, Until Our Lungs Give Out asks us to peer into a futurity its authors likely will not inhabit.
Refusing to adjust to injustice, George Yancy's interlocutors speak with passion and urgency attesting to Yancy's skill as an interviewer. Listen to what they have to say, for the insights they express speak to some of the gravest issues of our times.
Until Our Lungs Give Out is an important book on race and anti-Black racism that will command attention and reflection because it looks at the fundamental needs of humankind: equality, justice, and peace.University students, scholars, journalists, social activists and readers will find the book thought-provoking and an extensive research tool.
Award-winning Yancy presents this collection of interviews that are replete with ideas and insights about all that the pursuit of justice, equality, and peace entails. The author brings together leading intellectuals and philosophers-Noam Chomsky, Judith Butler, Cornel West, and Eric Foner, for example-to discuss the topic in raw, searing honesty. Author/scholar/activist Frank B. Wilderson III describes the impact of unrelenting oppression against Black people, and there are powerful chapters such as the one called, "To Be Black in the U.S. Is To Have a Knee Against Your Neck Every Day." The book also includes observations by somewhat lesser-known people: author Chelsea Watego; British-based political sociologist Akwugo Emejulu, and Brian Burkhart, and more. Explicitly addressed is the preposterous suggestion that everyone just "move on" from thinking about racism. This book's contributors say that the only way society can do that is if white people go through some type of kenosis about their prejudices and notions that people do not deserve the same rights. All readers stand to learn something from this compelling book.
George Yancy's new book Until Our Lungs Give Out: Conversations on Race, Justice, and the Future is not for the faint of heart. The volume, a collection of interviews with leading intellectuals, explores the historical trajectory of whiteness and anti-Blackness and their manifestation in education, healthcare, politics, and religion. The book's range is as geographically broad as it is intellectually all-encompassing, yet despite what might seem an unwieldy range of topics, there are certain structuring themes-in particular, the persistence of anti-Black racism-that give the volume a coherence of vision and purpose. Perhaps the most impressive characteristic of the text is the diversity-racial, gender, cultural, national, and religious-of its participants. The volume is not dominated by one disciplinary perspective, and as a result, the interviews/dialogues never become one-dimensional or myopic..I highly recommend Until Our Lungs Give Out for anyone who desires to obtain an informative and insightful understanding of a range of urgent issues. The careful reader will enjoy a truly rewarding intellectual experience. Moreover, open-minded white readers need not be offended or made to feel guilty by the powerful critique of American society the book mounts. Following Yancy, I believe that the courageous reader will experience an initially traumatic but ultimately invaluable kenosis.
These stimulating and wide-ranging engagements-from Noam Chomsky and Judith Butler, to Robin Kelley, Mari Matsuda, and Cornel West-remind us of the range and depth of philosophical knowledge that underscores George Yancy's work as a public intellectual as well as a scholar. This collection of conversations is a must-read for those of us seeking deeper understandings of the complex interactions of race, class, gender, and justice.
Until Our Lungs Give Out is a painfully relevant and indispensable book that brings together world-renowned scholars to collectively demonstrate what it looks like to face the horrors and deep conflicts of the world head on and to speak against them despite the dangers of doing so. As one of our nation's most searingly insightful philosophers, Yancy has prophetically modeled speaking truth in love and has steadfastly refused to sugarcoat the truth no matter the personal cost to him. This collection of critical conversations underscores the hard truth that we have neither been good stewards of the earth nor have we been good neighbors toward each other. We have failed to give the abundance of care that each one of us deserves. Until Our Lungs Give Out bears witness to a cadre of renowned peacemakers (not peacekeepers) who will fight for national and global justice, humanity and peace until their lungs give out.
Many thanks to philosopher and public intellectual George Yancy for this bounty of engaged thought from our foremost thinkers. We need this gift now more than ever-as a source of both perception and hope.
Robin D. G. Kelley poignantly captures the protests for racial justice during the surge in white nationalist retaliations. He states, 'If there is such a thing as the arc of the moral universe, it does not bend on its own. We bend it one way, our enemies bend it back.' George Yancy's interviews with Kelley and many of the most important thinkers and doers of our times inspire many ways we can go forward from here. These interviews are thought-provoking, forward-thinking, and inspiring about next steps.
Until Our Lungs Give Out is a timely and tremendously important book. It presents thoughtful and thought-provoking conversations between distinguished philosopher George Yancy and a dazzling array of the world's most profound, original, and generative thinkers about anti-Black racism in the U.S. and around the world.
The title of George Yancy's new collection of interviews tells it all: he gives voice to the top critical thinkers in today's struggle against racism and sexism, thinkers who persist in their struggle to the end, until their lungs give out. I've never seen a volume which combines multiple perspectives with a united strong commitment to emancipation. Until Our Lungs Give Out gives hope, and hope is what we need in our dark times.
In this set of interviews, George Yancy invites leading intellectuals to tarrywith global white supremacy, planetary anti-blackness, nocent settler-colonialism, structural misogyny, and insatiable capitalist extraction. The message and messengers are deeply political, philosophical, and pedagogical. At once an act of defiance and radical love, Until Our Lungs Give Out asks us to peer into a futurity its authors likely will not inhabit.
Refusing to adjust to injustice, George Yancy's interlocutors speak with passion and urgency attesting to Yancy's skill as an interviewer. Listen to what they have to say, for the insights they express speak to some of the gravest issues of our times.