The recent barrage of racially motivated killings, violent antagonisms, and conflagrations has left many Americans reeling in the face of a so-called post-racial reality. In thirty-four interviews¿some previously unpublished and others originally conducted for The New York Times' philosophy column The Stone, but presented here unedited and with supporting materials¿philosopher George Yancy critically engages some of the most influential thinkersalive today in order to highlight their most crucial insights into understanding the multifaceted dimensions of race in the United States.

• Acknowledgements


• Introduction: Critical Conversational Spaces and the Deferral of Racism


• George Yancy


• PART I - Race and the Critical Space of Black Women's Voices


• bell hooks


• Patricia Hill Collins


• Hortense Spillers


• Joy James


• Discussion Questions


• PART II - Race and the Naming of Whiteness


• Judith Butler


• Alison Bailey


• John D. Caputo


• Shannon Sullivan


• Craig Irvine


• Joe Feagin


• Discussion Questions


• PART III - Race, Pedagogy, and the Domain of the Cultural


• Lawrence Blum


• Dan Flory


• David Theo Goldberg


• Discussion Questions


• PART IV - Race, History, Capitalism, Ethics, and Neo-liberalism


• Noam Chomsky


• Nancy Fraser


• Peter Singer


• Seyla Benhabib


• Naomi Zack


• Charles Mills


• Falguni A. Sheth


• Discussion Questions


• PART V - Race Beyond the Black/White Binary


• Linda Martín Alcoff


• Eduardo Mendieta


• David Haekwon Kim


• Emily S. Lee


• Discussion Questions


• PART VI - Race and Africana Social and Political Frames


• Molefi Kete Asante


• Bill E. Lawson


• Lucius T. Outlaw, Jr.


• Cornel West


• Kwame Anthony Appiah


• Clevis Headley


• Discussion Questions


• PART VII - Race Beyond the US


• Fiona Nicoll


• Paul Gilroy


• Discussion Questions


• PART VIII - Race and Religion: At the Intersections


• Charles Johnson


• Traci C. West


• Discussion Questions

George Yancy is Professor of Philosophy at Emory University.