On Race: 34 Conversations in a Time of Crisis

With the recent barrage of racially motivated killings, violent encounters between blacks and whites, and hate crimes in the wake of the 2016 election that foreground historic problems posed by systemic racism, including disenfranchisement and mass incarceration, it would be easy to despair that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream has turned into a nightmare. Many Americans struggle for equal treatment, facing hate speech, brutality, and a national spirit of hopelessness; their reality is hardly "post-racial". The need for clarity surrounding the significance of race and racism in the United States is more pressing than ever. This collection of interviews on race, some originally conducted for The New York Times philosophy blog, The Stone, provides rich context and insight into the nature, challenges, and deepest questions surrounding this fraught and thorny topic.

In interviews with such major thinkers as bell hooks, Judith Butler, Cornel West, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Peter Singer, and Noam Chomsky, Yancy probes the historical origins, social constructions, and lived reality of race along political and economic lines. He interrogates fully race's insidious expressions, its transcendence of Black/white binaries, and its link to neo-liberalism, its epistemological and ethical implications, and, ultimately, its future.

• Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly about Racism in America
• Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
• Black Bodies, White Gazes
• A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
• Mapping Ideology (Mappings Series)
• The Origin of Others (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
• Look, A White!: Philosophical Essays on Whiteness
• A Practical Companion to Ethics
• The Idea of a Critical Theory: Habermas and the Frankfurt School (Modern European Philosophy)
• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism