George Yancy, Ph.D.
Professor
McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts
Department of Philosophy
On leave for AY 2015-2016.
Phone: 412.396.6408
yancy518@duq.edu
Education:
Ph.D., Philosophy, Duquesne University, 2005
M.A., Africana Studies, New York University, 2004
M.A., Philosophy, Yale University, 1987
B.A., Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, 1985 (Cum Laude)
George Yancy, Professor of Philosophy, works primarily in the areas of critical philosophy of race, critical whiteness studies, and philosophy of the Black experience. He is particularly interested in the formation of African-American philosophical thought as articulated within the social context and historical space of anti-Black racism, African-American agency, and identity formation. His current work has focused on the theme of whiteness and how it constitutes a site of embedded social reality and a site of opacity. He links these two foci to such themes as white subject formation, white epistemic ways of knowing/not knowing, privilege and hegemony, and forms of white spatial bonding as processes of white solidarity and interpellation. He is also interested in how such forms of white epistemic bonding constitute sites of white intelligibility formation. Yancy also explores the theme of racial embodiment, particularly in terms of how white bodies live their whiteness unreflectively vis-a-vis the interpellation and deformation of the black body and other bodies of color. Within this context, his work also explores Black Erlebnis or the lived experience of black people, which raises important questions regarding Black subjectivity, modes of Black spatial mobility, and embodied resistance. He is also interested in the intersection between philosophy and biography. More specifically, he is interested in questions regarding philosophical self-formation and the impact of this formation on how philosophers come to valorize certain philosophical problems over others. In this regard, he is interested in the ways in which philosophy and philosophical world-views are impacted by extra-philosophical processes like culture, sentiment, and so on. As Co-Editor of The American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience, he firmly believes in the significance of black philosophical voices, and black knowledge production, as sites of conceptual and existential transformative possibilities. He also serves as an ex officio member of the American Philosophical Association Committee on Blacks in Philosophy.
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In other words he is interested in illogical hocus pocus word games which get to damn people he does not like, but never need to back it up.
What a load of tripe (him, not you!). Thanks for the email and phone number!
As in different shades?