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 students and teachers of courses in African American Studies, African American History, Philosophy of Race, and anyone else who wishes to examine what it means to be Black in America.
ForewordPreface to the Second EditionAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Black Bodies and the Myth of a Post-Racial America2 The Elevator Effect: Black Bodies/White Bodies3 The Return of the Black Body: Nine Vignettes4 The Agential Black Body: Resisting the Black Imago in the White Imaginary5 Exposing the Serious World of Whiteness through Frederick Douglass's Autobiographical Reflections6 Desiring Bluest Eyes, Desiring Whiteness: The Black Body as Torn Asunder7 Whiteness as Ambush and the Transformative Power of Vigilance8 White Embodied Gazing, the Black Body as "Disgust," and the Aesthetics of Un-SuturingIndexAbout the Author