Articles/Chapters/Reviews
Special Guest Edited Journals
Guest Editor, The Western Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 43 (3-4), 2019, special issue exploring the film, Moonlight.
Guest Editor, Knowledge Cultures, Vol. 3 (1), 2015, special issue on the theme of racial embodiment.
Guest Editor, The Black Scholar, Vol. 43 (4), Winter 2013, a special issue on the role of Black philosophy.
Guest Editor, The Western Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 37 (2), Summer 2013, special issue on exploring the Hip Hop Vision of James G. Spady
Guest Co-Editor (with John H. McClendon, lll), The American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience, 2002-2015.
Articles & Scholarly Interviews
Yancy, G. The Departed: "Charles Mills: The Self-Incurred Ignorance of White Philosophy" in American Book Review, Volume 44, Number 3, Fall 2023: 173-179.
Yancy, G. "Charles Mills: On Seeing and Naming the Whiteness of Philosophy," in The CLR James Journal, Vol. 28, No.1, 2022 (reprinted with permission from The Philosopher, Vol. 110, No. 2, 2022: 79-86).
Yancy, G. "Charles Mills: On Seeing and Naming the Whiteness of Philosophy," in The Philosopher, Vol. 110, No. 2, 2022: 79-86.
Yancy, G. "If the State of the World Makes You Want to Scream, You're Not Alone" (Reprinted from Truthout). In Re-Markings, Vol. 21, Number 2, 2022.
Yancy, G. "Death Is for the Living." (The New York Times, physical copy). Tuesday, January 4, 2022: A16.
Yancy, G. "bell hooks, We Will Always Rage On With You," Truthout, December 21, 2021.
Yancy, G. "For Whom and How Does Philosophy Matter: A Response to My Interlocutors" (Yancy Book Symposium), in the Journal of Applied Philosophy. Vol. 38, Issue 4, 2021: 581-598.
Yancy, G. "The Danger of White Innocence: Being a Stranger in One's Own 'Home,'" in A Yearbook of Life-worldly Phenomenology and Qualitative Social Science: Schutzian Research, Vol. 13 (2021), 11-25.
Yancy, G. "No, Black People Can't Be 'Racist,'" Truthout, October 20, 2021.
Yancy, G. "George Yancy and Judith Butler," in Adam Pendleton's Who is Queen?: A Reader. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 12, 2021.
Yancy, G. "Let's Not Lose Ourselves in Euphoria Over Trump's Exit. Anti-Blackness Persists," in Truthout, January 25, 2021.
Yancy, G. (with Judith Butler). "Interview: Mourning Is a Political Act Amid the Pandemic and Its Disparities" in Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, Vol 17, Issue 4, December 2020 (Republished from the New York Times, "The Stone").
Yancy, G. "Black Disciplinary Zones and the Exposure of Whiteness" in Educational Philosophy and Theory (online), October 8, 2020.
Yancy, G. (with Venerable Geshe Dadul Namgyal), "Death: Why we Fear it and How to overcome it" in Eastern Horizon: Many Traditions, One Wisdom, September 2020 (expanded from The Stone, New York Times).
Yancy, G. "Facing the Fact of My Death" in The Stone (New York Times), February 3, 2020.
Yancy, G. (with H. A. Nethery IV). "Philosophy as a Practice of Suffering: An Interview with George Yancy." In Philosophia Africana (19:1, 2020).
Yancy, G. "Moonlight: The Weight of 'Intimacy.'" The Western Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 43, Issue 3&4, 2019
Yancy, G. "Dear God, Are You There?" in The Stone (New York Times), August 7, 2019.
Yancy, G. "Why White People Need Blackface" in The Stone (New York Times), March 4, 2019.
Yancy, G. "The Practice of Philosophy: Truth-Telling, Vulnerability, and Risk," in Philosophy Today, Volume 62, Issue 4, Fall 2018: 1255-1275. This was a response article published for a Book Discussion within Philosophy Today. Review essays on my authored book, Backlash, were written by philosophers Alison Bailey, Clevis Headley, Eduardo Mendieta, and Shannon Sullivan.
Yancy, G. "#IAm Sexist" in The Stone (New York Times), October 24, 2018.
Yancy, G. "#IAm Sexist" in The Stone (New York Times). Translated into Spanish. October 29, 2018.
Yancy, G. (with Michael A. Peters). "Interview with George Yancy, African-American philosopher of critical race theory" in Educational Philosophy and Theory, August 28, 2018.
Yancy, G. "The Ugly Truth of Being Hated." The Chronicle of Higher Education, Volume 64, Issue 34, May 25, 2018.
Yancy, G. "It Feels Like Being on Death Row" in Counterpunch, May 10, 2018.
Yancy, G. (with Scott Jaschik). "Backlash." In INSIDE HIGHER ED, April 24, 2018.
Yancy, G. "Should I Give Up on White People?" in The Stone (New York Times), April 16, 2018.
Yancy, G. "Thinking About King's Dream in 2018. In The Guardian, April 4, 2018.
Yancy, G. "Moral Forfeiture and Racism: Why We must Talk About Race, in Educational Philosophy & Theory (2018).
Yancy, G. "Interview with Professor George Yancy." Journal on African Philosophy, No. 16, 2017.
Yancy, G. "Joyce Mitchell Cook: Autobiographical and Philosophical Fragments." The Western Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 41, No. 3-4 (a double issue), Fall/Winter 2017:3-16.
Yancy, G. "A Theology of No Edges: Beyond White Christian Neoliberalism: A Response to Elisabeth T. Vasko's book, Beyond Apathy: A Theology for Bystanders in Syndicate Symposium, September 25, 2017.
Yancy, G. "Is Your God Dead?" in The Stone (New York Times), June 19, 2017.
Yancy, G. "I am a Dangerous Professor," in Sunday Review, The New York Times, Sunday, December 4, 2016.
Yancy, G. "I am a Dangerous Professor," in The Stone (New York Times), November 30, 2016
Yancy, G. (interviewed by Clifford Sosis) "What Is It Like To Be A Philosopher?" September 16, 2016.
Yancy, G. "Look, a White! Flipping the Script" in Loose Associations (from The Photographer's Gallery), Vol. 2, Issue iii, Summer 2016: 33-44. Republication of the introduction of my authored book Look, A White: Philosophical Essays on Whiteness.
Yancy, G. (with Maria del Guadalupe Davidson). "Thinking About Race, History, and Identity: An Interview with George Yancy." The Western Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 40, No.1. 2016: 3-13.
Yancy, G. "Dear White America," in The Stone (New York Times), December 24, 2015. (This article won the American Philosophical Association Committee on Public Philosophy's Op-Ed Contest in 2016). This article, because of the sheer amount of racist hatred received in response to it, was instrumental in encouraging the American Philosophical Association's unprecedented public statement against bullying and harassment toward philosophers. Anne Leighton was also instrumental in bringing attention and support through creating a petition in support of me. Also, 68 prominent philosophers and intellectuals wrote a letter in my defense.
Yancy, G. (with David Kim) "The Invisible Asian," in The Stone (New York Times), October 8, 2015.
Yancy, G. "An Interview with George Yancy" in Aegis: The Otterbein Humanities Journal (Spring, 2015).
Yancy, G. "Introduction: Of Embodiment And Racialization," Knowledge Cultures, Vol. 3 (1), 2015, special issue on the theme of racial embodiment.
Yancy, G. "Through the Crucible of Pain and Suffering: African American Philosophy as a Gift and the Countering of the Western Philosophical Metanarrative," Educational Philosophy and Theory (2015).
Yancy, G. "Forms of Spatial and Textual Alienation: The Lived Experience of Philosophy as Occlusion," introduction to "Philosophy and Race," ed. Alexis Dianda and Robin M. Muller, special issue, Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 35:1-2 (2014), pp. 7-22.
Yancy, G. "Of Black Bodies, Watermelons, and a Series of Unfortunate Events," American Book Review, Vol. 35, No. 6 (2014).
Yancy, G. "Interpretative Profiles on Charles Johnson's Reflections on Trayvon Martin: A Dialogue between George Yancy, E. Ethelbert Miller, and Charles Johnson." The Western Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 38, No. 1, 2014: 3-14.
Yancy, G. "Tarrying Together," Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2013.
Yancy, G. "Black Philosophy and the Crucible of Lived History," introduction by Guest Editor of The Black Scholar, Vol. 43:4, (Winter, 2013): 5-10.
Yancy, G. "Performing Philosophical Dialogue as a Space for Dwelling Near," Philosophia Africana, Vol. 15:2, 2013: 99-105.
Yancy, G. "Walking While Black in the White Gaze'" in The Stone (The New York Times), September 1, 2013 (This article won the American Philosophical Association Committee on Public Philosophy's Op-Ed Contest in 2014.)
Yancy, G. "Introductory Remarks from the Guest Editor," The Western Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 37, No. 2, Summer 2013: 63-65.
Yancy, G. 'The Honor Was All Mine: A Conversation with William R. Jones,' APA Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience, Vol. 12, No. 2, Spring 2013: 1-12.
Yancy, G. 'The Pleasure of Dialogue: Responses to my Interlocutors,' APA Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience, Vol. 12, No. 1, Fall 2012: 22-29.
Yancy, G. 'Narrative Descriptions from the Ground Up: Epistemological and Existential Importance.' The American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience, Vol. No. 2, Spring 2011: 3-6.
Yancy, G. 'The Scholar Who Coined the Term Ebonics: A Conversation with Dr. Robert L. Williams,' Journal of Language, Identity, and Education , Vol. 10, No. 1, January-March, 2011: 41-51.
Yancy, G. 'Loving Wisdom and the Effort to Make Philosophy -Unsafe-- in Epistemologies Humanities Journal, 2011. (http://www.epistemologies.org/thematizing-diy/yancy-loving-wisdom-and-the-effort/).
Yancy, G. "A Professor Tackles Racism in the Classroom." The Chronicle of Higher Education, Volume LVI, Number 8, October 16, 2009: B36-B37
Yancy, G. (with Tracy Ryser) -Whiting Up and Blacking Out: White Privilege, Race, and White Chicks,' African American Review, 42. 3-4, Fall/Winter 2008: 1-16.
Yancy, G. 'Colonial Gazing: The Production of the Black Body as -Other.'- The Western Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 32, No. 1, Spring 2008: 1-15.
Yancy, G. 'Situated Black Women's Voices in/on the Profession of Philosophy.' Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Vol. 23, Issue 2, April-June, 2008: 155-189.
Yancy, G. 'Political and Magical Realist Semiotics in Kamau Brathwaite's Reading of The Tempest.' The CLR James Journal, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2006: 85-108.
Yancy, G. ''Whose Democracy?' - The American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience, Vol. 5, No. 1, Fall 2005: 14-20.
Yancy, G. 'W.E.B. Du Bois on Whiteness and the Pathology of Black Double Consciousness.' The American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience, Vol. 4, No. 1, Fall 2004: 10-22.
Yancy, G. 'Historical Varieties of African-American Labor: Sites of Agency and Resistance.' The Western Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 28, No. 2, Summer 2004: 337-353.
Yancy, G. 'Geneva Smitherman: The Social Ontology of African-American Languaging, the Power of Nommo and the Hermeneutics of Linguistic Combat and Identity.' The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 18, No. 4, 2004: 273--299. In this same issue, the journal editors solicited articles from four philosophers (Lynn Clarke, Janine Jones, John McClendon, and Shannon Sullivan) who commented on my article.
Yancy, G. 'Post-9-11 and the Art of a Responsible Philosopher.' The Black Arts Quarterly, Vol. 8, Issue 1, Spring 2003: 31-33.
Yancy, G. 'In the Spirit of the A.M.E. Church: Gilbert Haven Jones as an Early Black Philosopher and Educator.' A.M.E. Church Review, Vol. CXVIII, No. 388, 2002: 43-57. Reprinted in The American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience, Vol. 2, No. 2, Spring 2003: 42-48.
Yancy, G. 'Black Women's Experiences, Philosophy of Religion and Womanist Theology: An Introduction Through Jacquelyn Grant's Hermeneutics of Location,' The American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience, Vol. 2, No. 1, Fall 2002: 56-65.
Yancy, G. 'The Existential Dimensions of Frederick Douglass's Autobiographical Narrative: A Beauvoirian Examination,' Philosophy & Social Criticism, Vol. 28 (3), 2002: 297- 320.
Yancy, G. 'Lyotard and Irigaray: Challenging the (white) Male Philosophical Metanarrative Voice,' Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol. 33 (4), 2002: 563-580.
Yancy, G. 'A Foucauldian (Genealogical) Reading of Whiteness: The Production of the Black Body/ Self and the Racial Pathology of Pecola Breedlove in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye' in Radical Philosophy Review, vol. 4, No. 1&2, 2001: 1-29.
Yancy, G. 'On the Power of Black Aesthetic Ideals: Thomas Nelson Baker as Preacher and Philosopher,' The AME Church Review, vol. CXVII, No. 384 (Oct./Dec.), 2001: 50-67.
Yancy, G. 'What Does it Mean to be a Black Philosopher in the 21st Century?' The Black Arts Quarterly, Vol. 6, Issue 1 (Winter/Spring), 2001.
Yancy, G. 'Feminism and the Subtext of Whiteness: Black Women's Experiences as a Site of Identity Formation and Contestation of Whiteness,' Western Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 24, No. 3, 2000: 155-165.
Yancy, G. 'The Black Self Within A Semiotic Space of Whiteness: Reflections on the Racial Deformation of Pecola Breedlove in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye,' CLA Journal, XLIII, No. 3, 2000: 299-319.
Yancy, G. 'The Nullification of the Black Male Voice in April Sinclair's Coffee Will Make You Black,' CLA Journal, 41, No. 3, 1998: 269-278
Yancy, G. 'Thomas Nelson Baker: The First African-American to Receive the Ph.D. in Philosophy,' in The Western Journal of Black Studies, 21, No. 4, 1997: 253-260.
Yancy, G. 'Thomas Nelson Baker: Toward an Understanding of a Pioneer Black Philosopher,' The American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience, 95, No. 2, Spring, 1996: 5-9.
Yancy, G. 'Larry Neal: Phenomenological Facets,' CLA Journal, 36, No. 1, 1992: 41-51.
Chapters
Yancy, G. “The Un-Suturing of the Violence of Whiteness through Irigarayan Wonder” in Thresholds of Irigaray: Relation through Difference, edited by Wesley N. Baker and Jena Jolissaint (forthcoming).
Yancy, G. & Sheldon George. "Whiteness as Plague," in the Wake of the Plague: Eros and Mourning, edited by Klaus Mladek and James A. Godley (Northwestern University Press, forthcoming).
Yancy, G. "The Question of Blackness: Mourning Without End" in The Routledge International Handbook of Postmodern Therapies, edited by Olga Smoliak, Eleftheria Tseliou, Tom Strong, Saliha Bava, and Peter Muntigl (Routledge, forthcoming).
Yancy, G. "Foreword" in Jennifer Gale de Saxe's Untangling Whiteness: Education, Resistance and Transformation (Vernon Press, forthcoming).
Yancy, G. "Foreword" in The Philosophy of Charles W. Mills: Race and the Relations of Power. Edited by Mark Westmoreland (under contract with Routledge, forthcoming)
Yancy, G. "Introduction: Thomas Nelson Baker: Refusing Black Invisibility" in Linda Batty's Rev. Dr. Thomas Nelson Baker: Philosopher Born Enslaved (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024).
Yancy, G. "Foreword: Blackness and Alterity: Where Existence Precedes Essence" in E. Anthony Muhammad's Discovering Black Existentialism (Brill Academic Publishers, 2024).
Yancy, G. "Introduction" in In Sheep’s Clothing: The Idolatry of White Christian Nationalism. Edited by George Yancy and Bill Bywater. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield 2024).
Yancy, G. "Introduction: Critical Voices that Refuse to be Silenced" in Until Our Lungs Give Out: Conversations on Race, Justice, and the Future. All interviews conducted by George Yancy. (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023).
Yancy, G. "Troubling the 'Public' in and through Philosophy," in The Blackwell Companion to Public Philosophy, edited by Lee McIntyre, Nancy McHugh, and Ian Olasov (Wiley-Blackwell, 2022).
Yancy, G. "Speaking Behind and To the Veil" in Black Men From Behind the Veil: Ontological Interrogations, edited by George Yancy (Lexington Books, 2021).
Yancy, G. "Afterword" in George Yancy: A Critical Introduction, edited by Kimberley Ducey, Clevis Headley, and Joe R. Feagin, and Foreword by Judith Butler (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021).
Yancy, G. "Foreword" in The Logic of Racial Practice: Explorations in the Habituation of Racism, edited by Brock Bahler (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021).
Yancy, G. "Foreword" in Richard Snyder's A Future Without Walls (Fortress Press, 2021).
Yancy, G. "Foreword: The Cruciform of Love Within the Crucible of Catastrophe" in Teodros Kiros' Conversations with Cornel West (Africa World Press, Inc, 2020).
Yancy, G. "Foreword: Living to Harass" in Critical Race Theory in the Academy, edited by Vernon L. Farmer and Evelyn S. W. Farmer (Information Age Publishers, 2020).
Yancy, G. and J. Butler, "Judith Butler: Mourning is a Political Act Amid the Pandemic and its Disparities" (Translated into Portuguese) reprinted as a chapter in Filosofia Em Confiamento, which is a book that consist of philosophical essays and interviews which critically engage COVID-9. All the contributions have been made available in Portuguese. The book is edited by Klinger Scoralick, 2020.
Yancy, G. "Afterword" in Todd M. Mealy's "We Have Been Silent Up Until Now": Why Race-Conscious Pedagogy and the Disruption of Racism at Majority White High Schools Matters (McFarland & Company, Inc, 2020).
Yancy, G. "Whiteness as Anti-Theological: An Ethics of No Edges" in Judaism, Race, and Ethics: Conversations and Questions, edited by Jonathan K. Crane (Penn State University Press, 2020).
Yancy, G. "Confiscated Bodies" in 50 Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology, edited by Gail Weiss, Ann Murphy, and Gayle Salamon (Evanston, IL, Northwestern University Press), 2020.
Yancy, G. "Symbolic White Death" in The Image of White-ness: Contemporary Photography and Racialization (SPBH Editions in collaboration with Art on the Underground/Mayor of London), edited by Daniel C. Blight, September, 2019.
Yancy, G. "The Urgency of Refusing Adjustment" in Educating for Critical Consciousness, edited by George Yancy (New York: Routledge), 2019.
Yancy, G. (with Emily McRae. "Introduction" in Buddhism and Whiteness: Critical Reflections, co-edited with Emily McRae (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books), 2019.
Yancy, G. "The Black Body: A Phenomenology of Being Stopped" in Race as Phenomena, edited by Emily S. Lee (Rowman & Littlefield), 2019.
Yancy, G. "George Yancy and Judith Butler: Black Lives Matter (With Study Questions)." Republished from The New York Times in Readings in Moral Philosophy, by Jonathan Wolff (New York: W. W. Norton & Company), 2018.
Yancy, G. "The Perils of being a Black Philosopher" in Violence: Humans in Dark Times, by Bard Evans and Natasha Lennard, City Lights Publishers, 2018.
Yancy, G. "Afterword" in The Fire Now: Anti-racist scholarship in times of explicit racial violence, edited by Azeezat Johnson, Joseph-Salisbury, and Beth Kamunge (ZED Books, 2018).
Yancy, G. "Foreword" in Henry A. Giroux's American Nightmare: Facing the Challenge of Fascism (City Lights Publishers, 2018).
Yancy, G. "Black Embodied Wounds and the Traumatic Impact of the White Imaginary" in Trauma and Transcendence: Limits of Theory, edited by Eric Boynton and Peter Capretto, New York: Fordham University Press (2018).
Yancy, G. "Teaching About Whiteness: A Gift to White Teachers" in Teaching Race, edited by Stephen D. Brookfield, Jossey-Bass/Wiley (2018).
Yancy, G. "Introduction: Dangerous Conversations" in On Race: 34 Conversations in a Time of Crisis. All interviews conducted by George Yancy. (Oxford University Press, 2017).
Yancy, G. "Afterword" in Systemic Racism: Making Liberty, Justice, and Democracy Real, edited by Kimberley Ducey and Ruth Thompson-Miller, Palgrave Macmillian (2017).
Yancy, G. "Dear White America," in Modern Ethics in 77 Arguments, edited by Peter Catapano and Simon Critchley, Liveright (2017).
Yancy, G. "Walking While Black in the 'White Gaze,'" in Modern Ethics in 77 Arguments, edited by Peter Catapano and Simon Critchley, Liveright (2017).
Yancy, G. "Through the Crucible of Pain and Suffering: African-American Philosophy as a Gift and the Countering of the Western Philosophical Metanarrative" in The Dilemma of Western Philosophy, edited by Michael A. Peters and Carl Mika (Reprint from Educational Theory and Philosophy), Routledge (2017).
Yancy, G. "For The Love of Our Sons" in Our Black Sons Matter: Mothers Talk about Fears, Sorrows, and Hopes. Co-edited with Maria del Guadalupe Davidson and Susan Hadley. Afterword by Farah Jasmine Griffin. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016).
Yancy, G. "Foreword" in Thinking the Plural: Richard J. Bernstein and the Expansion of American Philosophy, edited by Marcia Morgan and Megan Craig (Lexington Books, 2016).
Yancy, G. "The Violent Weight of Whiteness: Existential and Psychic Price Paid by Black Male Bodies" in Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Race, edited by Naomi Zack (Oxford University Press, 2016).
Yancy, G. "White Embodied Gazing, the Black Body as Disgust, and the Aesthetics of Un-Suturing" in Body Aesthetics, edited by Sherri Irvin (Oxford University Press, 2016).
Yancy, G. "Walking While Black in the 'White Gaze'" in The Stone Reader: Modern Philosophy in 133 Arguments, edited by Peter Catapano and Simon Critchley (Liveright, 2015).
Yancy, G. "Whiteness As Insidious: On the Embedded and Opaque White Racist Self" in I Don't See Color: Personal and Critical Perspectives on White Privilege, edited by Bettina Bergo and Tracey Nicholls (State College, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015).
Yancy, G. "When Heaven and Earth are Shaken to Their Foundations" in Unveiling Whiteness in the 21st Century: Global manifestations, Transdisciplinary Interventions, edited by Veronica Watson, Deirdre Howard-Wagner, and Lisa Spanierman (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014).
Yancy, G. "Introduction: Un-Sutured," in White Self-Criticality beyond Anti-Racism: How Does It Feel to Be a White Problem? Edited with introduction by George Yancy. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (Late 2014).
Yancy, G. New Preface (with Janine Jones) in the paperback edition of Pursuing Trayvon Martin: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Manifestations of Racial Dynamics, edited by George Yancy and Janine Jones (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014).
Yancy, G. "Introduction: White Crisis and the Value of Losing One's Way," in Exploring Race in Predominantly White Classrooms: Scholars of Color Reflect (Critical Social Thought Series). Co-edited with Maria Del Guadalupe Davidson. Introduction by George Yancy; Afterword by Maria Del Guadalupe Davidson. New York: Routledge (2014).
Yancy, G. "White Gazes: What it Feels Like to be an Essence" in Living Alterities: Phenomenology, Embodiment and Race, edited by Emily Lee (New York: SUNY Press, 2014).
Yancy, G. "Now, Imagine She's White": The Gift of the Black Gaze and the Re-inscription of Whiteness as Normative in A Time to Kill" in Race, Philosophy, and Film, edited by Dan Flory and Mary Bloodsworth-Lugo (London and New York: Routledge, 2013)
Yancy, G. "Trayvon Martin: When Effortless Grace is Sacrificed on the Altar of the Image" in Pursuing Trayvon Martin: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Manifestations of Racial Dynamics, edited by George Yancy and Janine Jones (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013).
Yancy, G. "Introduction" (with Janine Jones) in Pursuing Trayvon Martin: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Manifestations of Racial Dynamics, edited by George Yancy and Janine Jones (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013).
Yancy, G. "How can you teach me if you don't know me?: Embedded racism and white opacity." In C. W. Ruitenberg (Ed.), Philosophy of Education. Urbana. IL: Philosophy of Education Society (2012).
Yancy, G. 'Introduction: Framing the Problem,' in Christology and Whiteness: What Would Jesus Do? Edited with Introduction by George Yancy. New York: Routledge (July 2012).
Yancy, G. 'Introduction: Inappropriate Subjects?' in Reframing the Practice of Philosophy: Bodies of Color, Bodies of Knowledge. Edited with Introduction and chapter by George Yancy. SUNY Press (2012).
Yancy, G. 'Dr. King's Philosophy of Religion: A Theology of Somebodiness' in The Philosopher, King: Critical Essays on the Liberatory Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. Editor Robert E. Birt. Lexington Books (2012).
Yancy, G. 'Geneva Smitherman: The Social Ontology of African-American Languaging, the Power of Nommo and the Hermeneutics of Linguistic Combat and Identity' in Reframing the Practice of Philosophy: Bodies of Color, Bodies of Knowledge. Edited with Introduction and chapter by George Yancy. SUNY Press (2012). Reprinted by permission. Originally published in The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 18, no. 4, 2004: 273--299.
Yancy, G. "The Manichean Divide and Ontological Truncation: Charles Johnson on the -Black-as-Body' in Charles Johnson: Embracing the World. Editors: Nibir K. Ghosh & E. Ethelbert Miller, New Delhi: Authorspress (2011).
Yancy, G. 'Give-em Just One Mic: The Therapeutic Agency of Rap and Hip Hop- (with Susan Hadley) in Therapeutic Uses of Rap and Hip-Hop. Co-edited and co-authored Introduction with Susan Hadley. New York: Routledge (2011).
Yancy, G. 'Introduction: Troublemaking Allies,' in The Center Must Not Hold: White Women Philosophers on the Whiteness of Philosophy. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. Edited with Introduction by George Yancy (2010).
Yancy, G. 'Philosophy and the Other of the Second Sex,' Afterword for Maria del Guadalupe Davidson, et al (eds.) Convergences: Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy SUNY Press (2010).
Yancy, G. 'Robbing Black Identity,' in Racism in The Autobiography of Malcolm X, New York: Greenhaven Press (2009).
Yancy, G. 'The Black Body: Under the weight of White America's Microtomes,' Afterword for Carol E. Henderson (ed) America and the Black Body, Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (2009).
Yancy, G. 'Introduction,' (with Maria del Guadalupe Davidson) Maria Del Guadalupe Davidson and George Yancy (ed) Critical Perspectives on bell hooks. New York: Routledge (2009).
Yancy, G. 'Engaging Whiteness and The Practice Freedom: The Creation of Subversive Academic Spaces,' in Maria Del Guadalupe Davidson and George Yancy (ed) Critical Perspectives on bell hooks. New York: Routledge (2009).
Yancy, G. 'No Philosophical Oracle Voices,' Introduction to George Yancy (ed.) Philosophy in Multiple Voices. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield (2007).
Yancy, G. 'Preface- (with Susan Hadley) in Narrative Identities: Psychologists Engaged in Self- Construction.' Co-edited with Susan Hadley. London: Jessica Kingsley Press (2005).
Yancy, G. 'Introduction,' in George Yancy (ed.) White on White / Black on Black Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield (2005).
Yancy, G. ''Seeing Blackness' From Within the Manichean Divide,' in George Yancy (ed.) White on White / Black on Black Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield (2005).
Yancy, G. 'Fragments of a Social Ontology of Whiteness,' Introduction to George Yancy (ed.) What White Looks Like: African American Philosophers on the Whiteness Question. New York: Routledge (2004).
Yancy, G. 'A Foucauldian (Genealogical) Reading of Whiteness: The Production of the Black Body/Self and the Racial Deformation of Pecola Breedlove in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye- in George Yancy (ed.) What White Looks Like: African American Philosophers on the Whiteness Question. New York: Routledge (2004). Revised version originally appeared in Radical Philosophy Review, vol. 4, no. 1&2, 2001: 1-29.
Yancy, G. 'Philosophy and the Situated Narrative Self,' Introduction to George Yancy (ed.) The Philosophical I: Personal Reflections on Life in Philosophy. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield (2002).
Yancy, G. 'Between Facticity and Possibility,' in George Yancy (ed.) The Philosophical I: Personal Reflections on Life in Philosophy. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield (2002).
Yancy, G. 'Cornel West: The Vanguard of Existential and Democratic Hope,' Introduction to Cornel West: A Critical Reader, edited by George Yancy, Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers (2001).
Yancy, G. 'Religion and the Mirror of God: Historicism, Truth and Religious Pluralism,' in Cornel West: A Critical Reader, edited by George Yancy, Malden, MA: Backwell Publishers (2001).
Yancy, G. 'Interview with Angela Davis,' reprinted in Women of Color and Philosophy (ed. Naomi Zack, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2000).
Yancy, G. 'Interview with Cornel West,' reprinted in The Cornel West Reader (ed. Cornel West, Basic Civitas Books, 1999: pp. 19-33).
Yancy, G. 'Philosophy and Moving the Center of Conversation,' Introduction to African-American Philosophers, 17 Conversations, edited by George Yancy. New York: Routledge (1998).
Reference and Encyclopedia Entries
Yancy, G. 'Cornel West' - in American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia (eds. John Lachs and Robert Talisse, New York: Routledge, 2008).
Yancy, G. 'Martin Luther King, Jr.' in American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia (eds. John Lachs and Robert Talisse, New York: Routledge, 2008).
Yancy, G. 'Thomas Nelson Baker, Sr.' in The African American National Biography (eds. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Evelyn Higgenbotham, Oxford University Press, 2008).
Yancy, G. 'Gilbert Haven Jones' in The African American National Biography (eds. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Evelyn Higgenbotham, Oxford University Press, 2008).
Yancy, G. 'Joyce M. Cook- in The African American National Biography (eds. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Evelyn Higgenbotham, Oxford University Press, 2008).
Yancy, G. 'Angela Y. Davis' in An Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories (ed. Lorraine Code, Routledge, October 2000).
Book Reviews and Review Essays
Yancy, G. Review of Ted Gioia's Healing Songs in Popular Music and Society, Vol. 31, no. 2, 2008: 287-289.
Yancy, G. Review of Tim Wise's White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son in The American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience Vol.06, no. 2, Spring 2007: 13-17.
Yancy, G. Review of Beverly Clack's Misogyny in the Western Philosophical Tradition: A Reader, in The American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy Vol. 2, no. 1, Fall 2002: 120-121.
Yancy, G. Review of Harryette Mullen's Drudge and Muse, in CLA Journal, XLIV, no. 4, 2001: 522-527.
Yancy, G. Review of Christopher Small's Music of the Common Tongue: Survival and Celebration in African American Music, in Popular Music and Society, Vol. 24.4, 2000: 121-124.
Yancy, G. Review of Steinar Kvale's Psychology and Postmodernism in The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, September Issue, 1999.
Yancy, G. Review of Justine Rector's In Fear of African American Men: The Four Fears of White Men in The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, August Issue, 1999.
Yancy, G. Review of Walt Anderson's The Truth about the Truth: De-confusing and Re-constructing the Postmodern World in The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, July Issue, 1999.
Yancy, G. Review of Pauline Rosenau's Postmodernism and the Social Sciences: Insights, Inroads, and Intrusions in The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, June Issue, 1999.
Yancy, G. Review of Noel Ignatiev and John Garvey's Race Traitor in The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, May Issue, 1999.
Yancy, G. Review of Joel L. Kincheloe, Shirley R. Steinberg, Nelson M. Rodriguez, and Ronald E. Chennault's White Reign: Deploying Whiteness in America in The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, April Issue, 1999.
Yancy, G. Review of Richard Dyer's White: Essays on Race and Culture in The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, March Issue, 1999.
Yancy, G. Review of Janet A. Kourany's Philosophy in a Feminist Voice: Critiques and Reconstructions, in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 14, no. 2, Spring, 1999: 129-136.
Yancy, G. Review of Calvin O. Schrag's The Self After Postmodernity in The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, January Issue, 1999.
Yancy, G. Review of Joel Kovel's White Racism: A Psychohistory in The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, December Issue, 1998.
Yancy, G. Review of Gail Bederman's Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917 in The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, November Issue, 1998.
Yancy, G. Review of Jessie Daniel's White Lies: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in White Supremacist Discourse in The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, September Issue, 1998.
Yancy, G. Review of David R. Roediger's Black on White: Black Writers on What it Means to be White in The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, July Issue, 1998.
Yancy, G. Review of Janes Lazarre's Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons in The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, May Issue, 1998.
Yancy, G. Review of David A. Cooper's God is a Verb: Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism in The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, April Issue, 1998.
Yancy, G. Review of Cornel West's Restoring Hope: Conversations on the Future of Black America in The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, February Issue, 1998.
Yancy, G. Review of Jon Michael Spencer's Researching Black Music, in Popular Music and Society, 22, no. 4, 1998: 123-125.
Yancy, G. Review of Robin D.G. Kelley's Yo- Mama's Disfunktional!: Fighting Cultural Wars in Urban America, in Social Science Quarterly, 79, no. 4, 1998: 914-916.
Yancy, G. Review Essay of Brenda D. Gottschild's Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance: Dance and Other Contexts, in Popular Music and Society, 22, no. 2, 1998: 125-128.
Yancy, G. Review of Cheikh Anta Diop: Poem For The Living, in CLA Journal, XLII, no. 2, 1998: 265-271.
Yancy, G. Review of Nathan McCall's What's Going On: Personal Essays in The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, December Issue, 1997.
Yancy, G. Review of Chuck D's Fight the Power: Rap, Race and Reality in The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, November Issue, 1997.
Yancy, G. Review of Maya Angelou's Even the Stars Look Lonesome in The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, October Issue, 1997.
Yancy, G. Review of William M. Banks' Black Intellectuals: Race and Responsibility in American Life in The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, September Issue, 1997.
Yancy, G. Review of Charles Evers and Andrew Szanton's Have No Fear: The Charles Evers Story in The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, July Issue, 1997.
Yancy, G. Review of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Alan Steinberg's Black Profiles in Courage: A Legacy of African American Achievement in The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, June Issue, 1997.
Yancy, G. Review of Rebecca Carroll's Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America in The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, May Issue, 1997.
Yancy, G. Review of John Hoberman's Darwin's Athletes: How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race in The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, April Issue, 1997.
Yancy, G. Review of Celestine Tate's Some Crawl and Never Walk in The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, March Issue, 1997.
Yancy, G. Review of Jewelle Taylor Gibbs' Race and Justice: Rodney King and O.J. Simpson in a House Divided in The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, February Issue, 1997.
Yancy, G. Review of Earl Ofari Hutchinson's The Assassination of the Black Male Image in The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, January Issue, 1997.
Yancy, G. Review of Kweisi Mfume's No Free Ride: From the Mean Streets to the Mainstream in The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, December Issue, 1996.
Yancy, G. Review of David D. Perata's Those Pullman Blues: An Oral History of the African-American Railroad Attendant in The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, October Issue, 1996.
Yancy, G. Review of Yvonne S. Thornton's The Ditchdigger's Daughters in The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, September Issue, 1996.
Yancy, G. Review of Kwame Gyekye's African Cultural Values: An Introduction in The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, July Issue, 1996.
Yancy, G. Review of Scott Minerbrook's Divided To The Vein: A Journey Into Race and Family in The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, May Issue, 1996.
Yancy, G. Review of Paula L. Wood's Spooks, Spies and Private Eyes in The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, April Issue, 1996.
Yancy, G. Review of Louis A. Decaro Jr.'s On the Side of My People: A Religious Life of Malcolm X in The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, February Issue, 1996.
Yancy, G. Review of Marita Golden's Saving Our Sons: Raising Black Children in a Turbulent World in The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, August Issue, 1995.
Yancy, G. Review of Nelson Mandela's Long Walk To Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela in The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, April Issue, 1995.
Yancy, G. Review of Jane Mayer & Jill Abramson's Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas in The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, February Issue, 1995.
Yancy, G. Review Essay of James G. Spady's, Stefan Dupres' and Charles G. Lee's Twisted Tales: In the Hip Hop Streets of Philly, in Popular Music and Society, 19, no. 3, (1995): 131-136.