Published Books
In Sheep's Clothing: The Idolatry of White Christian Nationalism. Edited by George Yancy and Bill Bywater. Separate introductions by George Yancy and Bill Bywater; Forword by J. Kameron Carter. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield (2024).
Until Our Lungs Give Out: Conversations on Race, Justice, and the Future. (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023). Introduction and all interviews conducted by George Yancy. Foreword written by Tim Wise, a prominent antiracist voice, author, and activist in the United States.
Choice Reviews, Featured Review, June 28, 2024
"Having admired the philosophical career and writings of George Yancy for some time, this reviewer can confidently assert that Until Our Lungs Give Out is another significant contribution to a long series of important texts on race and inclusion. Yancy’s works are never easy, nor are they designed to pacify readers, even those who agree with their premises. His works are designed to open dialogues in an honest, vulnerable, and productive manner. This collected volume portrays individuals speaking honestly about their experiences, academic studies, and community involvement in a way that demonstrates how difficult conversations on topics such as the innocence of whiteness, body perceptions, and local and global racial discrimination can be meaningfully conducted. While emotion is honestly portrayed and acknowledged, the discussions are critical and philosophical. The speakers adhere to reasoned discussion and philosophical standards of argumentation. Indeed, when contextualized, each conversation represents a cogent response to the situations examined. In following philosophical rules of engagement, the book challenges readers to recognize and own their reactions to what is said and to engage in an active rather than passive reading experience.... Reading this book is both emotionally and intellectually challenging. However, it offers a way of undertaking difficult conversations that go beyond the binary entrenchment currently affecting politics, society, and education. Highly recommended. General readers through faculty; professionals."
Reviewed by Sevket Akyildiz at Early Reviewers’ at LibraryThing.com, 2024:
Yancy's timely and frank interviews highlight how Black and Brown people will lead the struggle against White supremacy. In alliance, White antiracists will support the movement for race equality. After all, it is in everybody's interest for peace and justice to succeed. University students, scholars, journalists, activists and readers will find the book thought-provoking and an extensive research tool."
Library Journal, Starred Review, August 1, 2023:
“Award-winning Yancy presents this collection of interviews that are replete with ideas and insights about all that the pursuit of justice, equality, and peace entails. The author brings together leading intellectuals and philosophers—Noam Chomsky, Judith Butler, Cornel West, and Eric Foner, for example—to discuss the topic in raw, searing honesty. Author/scholar/activist Frank B. Wilderson III describes the impact of unrelenting oppression against Black people, and there are powerful chapters such as the one called, ‘To Be Black in the U.S. Is To Have a Knee Against Your Neck Every Day.’ The book also includes observations by somewhat lesser-known people: author Chelsea Watego; British-based political sociologist Akwugo Emejulu, and Brian Burkhart, and more. Explicitly addressed is the preposterous suggestion that everyone just ‘move on’ from thinking about racism. This book’s contributors say that the only way society can do that is if white people go through some type of kenosis about their prejudices and notions that people do not deserve the same rights. All readers stand to learn something from this compelling book.”
Black Men from Behind the Veil: Ontological Interrogations. Edited with Introduction by George Yancy (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022).
Choice Reviews, November 2022 Issue:
"Yancy offers another outstanding collection of essays. Black Men behind the Veil provides a rich understanding of what being a Black man in an anti-Black society is like.... Yancy's editorial fecundity and the contributors' acumen vis-á-vis the history of philosophy and their ability to diagnose the present moment will be much appreciated by readers with interests in philosophy, race, Blackness, contemporary US culture, and criminal justice. Though targeted at those working in philosophy of race and sociology, the book will most certainly appeal to a general audience concerned with matters of race and justice. Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers."
Across Black Spaces: Essays and Interviews from an American Philosopher (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020).
Reviewed by T.L. Lott in Choice, March 2021.
"In this collection of interviews and essays, Yancy engages in a timely conversation on racism with several well-known scholars and academic journalists."
Reviewed by Brian Hisao Onishi in Philosophy in the Contemporary World, 2020.
"I used to think of George Yancy as a provocateur with a pugilist's style, throwing necessary punches in the fight against racism. After reading Across Black Spaces I now see him as a man pouring out his heart with humility and strength, urgently attempting to convince people to take a gift he is freely giving and one that we desperately need to accept."
Buddhism and Whiteness: Critical Reflections. Co-edited and co-authored introduction with Emily McRae. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (2019).
Reviewed by Natalie Fisk Quli in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly, Spring Issue, 2020.
"Part of the importance of this collection of essays lies in its multipronged approach to both naming the white supremacist bedrock of whiteness and describing Buddhist models for understanding how it arises. . . Authors in this volume bring to light a number of attitudes that help the reader "see" white ignorance in action. . . . Relinquishing the privilege of being the authority on what constitutes "real" Buddhism, who is a "real" American, and what counts as "real" practice involves giving something up. That act, and all the myriad ways whites can practice giving away unearned privilege, can itself become a powerful method of merit-making, of dana as a form of moral development in the pursuit of benefiting others. In this respect and others, Buddhism and Whiteness offers gifts of insight that constitute a wise and compassionate act of merit."
Reviewed in Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. Scholar's Corner, Fall 2019.
"With essays from more than 15 thinkers, including Tricycle contributing editor Charles Johnson, this book offers new scholarly ideas on Buddhism's equal access to liberation in the context of persistent racism experienced in America and beyond."
Reviewed in CHOICE, December 2019; Summing Up: Highly recommended.
"This volume opens with a foreword by noted scholar of religion Jan Willis in which she observes that although there is only one race, Homo sapiens, racism still thrives. The collection documents views from the peripheries that reveal that LGBTQ people and people of color are challenged in white US Buddhist communities as if they have no place. Often they are not seen at all. The way forward, Laurie Cassidy writes, is to listen deeply and take responsibility for the shared reality of all people. In his essay Bryce Huebner argues that "races are not biologically real" and "race is a conceptual fiction." This book is about modifying practices as well as changing minds. This reviewer was impressed by the program-recommended by Jessica Locke (following Patricia Devine)-of implicit bias intervention. Metta ("lovingkindness") meditation to develop a competing and positive narrative to the racist one about blackness is also effective. This important book offers ideas and values that could change how meditation works. In an afterword Charles Johnson writes that what is new here "is the effort to find common ground between ancient Buddhist ideas and principles with feminist theory, existential phenomenology, and Critical Race Theory, and Critical Whiteness Studies."
Educating for Critical Consciousness. Edited with Introduction by George Yancy. New York: Routledge (2019).
Reviewed in CHOICE by E. W. Ross, 59(2), 2021.
"Yancy provides a passionate introduction describing the origins of this project, which includes 14 chapters written by scholars from the US, Canada, England, and New Zealand. The primary themes covered include racism and white supremacy, education for democracy, critical thinking, and the challenges of teaching for critical consciousness in an era of ascending right populism. The chapters, which are written with clarity and extensively sourced, range in outlook, approaching their subjects from historical, philosophical, political, sociological, and pedagogical perspectives. This book's primary audiences include advanced students, teacher educators, educational theorists, and philosophers of education."
Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly About Racism in America (© Rowman & Littlefield, 2018).
Jacket design by Jen Huppert Design
Reviewed by Adebayo Oluwayomi in The American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black experience, Vol. 20, number 2, (Spring 2021).
"This work is courageous, to say the least, especially noting that it was written at a time when white ethno-nationalist rhetoric has become mainstream in national political discourse in the United States."
Reviewed by Tonia Floramaria Guida in UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies, Vol. 16, issue 1, 2020.
"If any book should be on all 'anti-racist racists' lists, this deeply honest, powerfully written, and not overtly optimistic book (as most anti-racist ones are) should be atop that list. I recommend this book to anyone passionate about understanding the machinations of whiteness and racism in our current sociopolitical climate. I also recommend this text to those willing to be vulnerable enough to deeply examine their own white racism. Yancy ultimately provides the reader with a comprehensive understanding of the various ways in which whiteness manifests, and a call to remove this mask and push whites to consider ourselves as the race problem."
Reviewed by Robert A. Winkler in KULT Online: The Review Journal, 2019.
"Amidst the #MeToo debate, the second year of President Trump's reign, and ongoing racial oppression in the US, George Yancy's Backlash is a blow to the jaw, a suffering, an imposition - but an inevitable one. In a painstakingly detailed manner, George Yancy, an African American Professor of philosophy at Emory University, displays the racist backlash he has had to encounter as reaction to his letter "Dear White America," which was published on December 24, 2015 in the New York Times' column, The Stone. Yancy's Backlash enables an uncomfortable insight into the state of race relations in Trump's America. The author counters the disclosure of incredible hate he has received in response to his call for an honest engagement with whiteness with a powerful historical and theoretical comprehension of the implicit working mechanisms and explicit manifestations of white racism. Most significantly, the volume further conceptualizes the process of un-suturing as a possible means to engage in the unfinished project of tackling white privilege and forging an antiracist white subjectivity. [Backlash is] in equal parts contemporary document, testimony, confession, and call to action."
Reviewed in Communication Booknotes Quarterly, 2019.
"[Backlash] urges White readers to suspend their belief in a postracial America and to resist disassociating themselves from a social system that violently suppresses Black Americans. Yancy's gift should be taken with the caveat that those who wish to accept it must also accept responsibility for educating themselves beyond this book on what it means to own such a gift, rather than have Yancy provide readers with all the answers to their questions about (i.e., the owner's manual). [Backlash] urges readers to understand that interrogating one's own racism is an ongoing, disquieting, and necessary process and not an occasion for self-congratulation."
Reviewed by Pamela Haines in the Friends Journal. November 1, 2019.
"When the book addresses what White people can do, I shouldn't have been surprised at [Yancy's] advice: "Linger with the problem and complexity of whiteness," he says. Referring to his intent in writing "Dear White America," he explains, "I wanted you to tarry with the ways in which you are complicit in supporting and benefitting from [the history of interracial relations in America]." Finally he says, "I wanted you to tell the truth to yourselves and tell it to others." This rings true to me. Those of us who are White have a great work of lamentation to do about the evils and heartbreak of racism, and a great work of pulling blinders from our eyes, peeling away the layers of defense that we built up to protect our goodness in the face of this ugly reality. Yet our goodness is secure. And Yancy is with us, seeing the opportunity for greater humanity and wholeness on the other side. He says that some gifts can be heavy to bear. His book is certainly not a light gift, nor one for everybody. But he is a truth-teller and, ultimately, a formidable ally."
Reviewed by Remi Joseph-Salisbury in The Bookslamist, June 11, 2019.
"This is an important book that not only addresses white people, but should also resonate with many invested in anti-racist struggle, particularly those who are subject to the vicious backlash of white supremacy. Whilst Yancy writes primarily for a US audience, its message is one that is largely applicable to the UK, and one that speaks simultaneously to the importance of, and costs of, speaking up."
Reviewed by Travis Franks in The Black Scholar, Vol. 49, No. 1, Spring 2019.
"One of Backlash's greatest attributes is that it reads as the work of a philosopher operating at the intersection of higher education and public intellectualism."
Reviewed by Marlena Trafas ("A Disagreeable Mirror") in Los Angeles Review of Books, January 27, 2019.
"Backlash is an honest, smart, and thoughtful book."
Review Essay by Clevis Headley (Book Discussion of Backlash) in Philosophy Today, Vol. 62, Issue 4, Fall 2018.
"Yancy writes as a philosopher. However, the impulsive assumption that he is just another generic philosopher—writing in a disembodied universal voice, and from the view from nowhere—represents an evasion of the existentially significant fact that he writes as a Black philosopher."
Review Essay by Shannon Sullivan (Book Discussion of Backlash) in Philosophy Today, Vol. 62, Issue 4, Fall 2018.
"[Yancy] threatens to undo the racial suturing that closes off whiteness and white people as the racial norm."
Review Essay by Edurado Menieta (Book Discussion of Backlash) in Philosophy Today, Vol. 62, Issue 4, Fall 2018.
"Reading Yancy demands that we allow ourselves to be exposed to the filthy language of white racist America, and to that extent to be exposed to a form of denigration, a form of symbolic and corporeal harm."
Review Essay by Alison Bailey (Book Discussion of Backlash) in Philosophy Today, Vol. 62, Issue 4, Fall 2018.
"I hold your gift in my hands. I feel its weight."
Reviewed by M. Christian in Choice Issue, Vol. 56, no 2, October 2018.
"This is a timely account of how raising the issue of racism to a white public can bring out the worst of humanity: hate."
Reviewed by Andre Kelton in Cheers Book Club, June 3, 2018.
"Not only was [Yancy's] letter a gift, but this entire volume is a gift, if one receives it as such and does the hard work required to make this world easier for all to navigate with an absence of existential anxiety."
Reviewed by Laura Leavitt in Foreword Reviews, May/June, 2018.
"Searing, honest, and Unflagging in its pursuit of understanding."
Reviewed by Joe Feagin at Racism Review, May 9, 2018.
"Perhaps the most poignant and deeply insightful aspect of Backlash is Yancy's reflections on being Black and the matter of death resulting from white terrorism's many forms."
Reviewed by Publisher's Weekly, May 7, 2018.
"Direct and honest, Yancy's delineations of white violence, white indifference, and white naivete are both thoughtful and discomforting."
Reviewed by Stephen Brookfield in Tikuun, April 23, 2018.
"For a professional philosopher to communicate such deep rawness and suffering is, quite simply, astounding"
Reviewed by Thomas J. Davis in Library Journal, April 15, 2018.
"For all readers with the courage and care to act for racial and social justice."
On Race: 34 Conversations in a Time of Crisis. Introduction and all interviews conducted by George Yancy. Oxford University Press (2017).
Reviewed by Jerald Podair in The Journal of African-American History, Volume 105, Number 2 (Spring 2020): 354-356.
Reviewed by Amir Jaima in Hypatia Reviews Online, 2018.
Reviewed by Leonardo Custódio at the London School of Economics and Political Science Book Review Site, July 1, 2018.
Reviewed by Bobbi Booker in The Philadelphia Tribune, November 25, 2017
Reviewed by Grace Jackson-Brown in Booklist, September 1, 2017.
Kirkus Review (posted June 13, 2017).
Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race in America, Second Edition. (Foreword by Linda Alcoff) Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield (2017).
Reviewed by Alfred Frankowski ("Being Without Time: Temporality and the White Gaze") in Educational Philosophy & Theory, 2018.
Reviewed by Kris Sealey ("Sunken Places and Zones of non-being: Black Life in White Imaginations") in Educational Philosophy & Theory, 2018.
Reviewed by Mark William Westmoreland ("White Lies Within: Whiteness as The Transcendental Norm") in Educational Philosophy & Theory, 2018.
Reviewed by L.L. Lovern in Choice, September 2017.
Our Black Sons Matter: Mothers Talk about Fears, Sorrows, and Hopes. Co-edited with Maria del Guadalupe Davidson and Susan Hadley. Introduction by George Yancy. Afterword by Farah Jasmine Griffin. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield (2016).
Reviewed by Shaeeda A. Mensah in Hypatia Reviews Online, 2018.
Reviewed by Keith A. Alford in The Journal of Race & Policy, Vol. 12, Issue 2 (Winter 2017): 122-123.
Reviewed by Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual (WATER), July, 2017.
Reviewed by Vanessa Bush in Booklist, January 1, 2017. This book was a STARRED Review and was also selected as the Booklist Top 10 List of the Best Diverse Nonfiction Titles in 2017.
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 (2015).
Reviewed by Kris Sealey in Hypatia Reviews Online, 2016.
Reviewed by Robert A. Winkler in KULT Online: The Review Journal, 2016.
Reviewed by Naomi Zack in Philosophia Africana, Vol. 17, Issue 2, 2015-2016.
Reviewed by M. W. Westmoreland in Choice, May 2015.
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 and additional submission of chapter; Afterword by Maria Del Guadalupe Davidson. New York: Routledge (2014).
Reviewed by J. Watras in Choice, October 2014.
Reviewed by Karlyn Crowley in APA Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience, Vol. 14, No. 1, Fall 2014.
Reviewed by Kit Field, International Professional Development Association, April 11, 2014.
Pursuing Trayvon Martin: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Manifestations of Racial Dynamics. Co-edited and co-authored Introduction with Janine Jones and additional submission of chapter. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (2013). The first paperback edition of this book was published in 2014 along with a New Preface Written by the Editors.
Reviewed by Joy Simmons Bradley in Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology, July, Vol. 5 (2), 2013.
Reviewed by Michelle Rowley in APA Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience, Vol. 12, No. 2, Spring 2013.
Look, A White! Philosophical Essays on Whiteness. (Foreword by Naomi Zack) Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press (2012).
Reviewed by Clevis Headley in Journal of World Philosophies, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2016).
Reviewed by David Driedger in Geez: Contemplative Cultural Resistance; "Identifying Whiteness -- An Invisible Norm," July 7, 2016.
Reviewed by Joseph Smith in Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, 35:1-2 (November 2014).
Reviewed by Stephen D. Brookfield in Adult Education Quarterly, Vol 64, No. 2 May 2014.
Reviewed by Steve Martinot in Socialism and Democracy, Vol. 27, Issue 3, 2013
Reviewed by Clevis Headley ("Philosophy and the Problem of Whiteness: Working Through George Yancy's Look, a White! Philosophical Essays on Whiteness"), Philosophia Africana, Vol. 15:2, 2013.
Reviewed by Karen Teel ("My Whiteness, Myself: A Review of George Yancy's Look, a White!"), Philosophia Africana, Vol. 15:2, 2013.
Reviewed by Linda Furgerson Selzer ("Philosophy in a 'Syncopated Cadence' : Living Race, Living Philosophy"), Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2013.
Reviewed by Barbara Applebaum ("Turning the Gaze on Whiteness: Opacity, Dispossession and the Call to Tarry"), Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2013.
Reviewed by Melvin Armstrong ("I See White People. No, Really, I See White People": A Review of George Yancy's Look, a White! Philosophical Essays on Whiteness"), Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2013.
Reviewed by Denise James in Radical Philosophy Review, Vol. 16, No 3, 2013.
Reviewed by Hernan Vera in Monthly Review, Vol. 65, Issue 04 (September), 2013.
Reviewed by Shannon W. Sullivan in Radical Philosophy: A Journal of Socialist and Feminist Philosophy, 177 (January/February) 2013.
Reviewed by Taine Duncan in APA Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience, Vol. 12, No. 1, Fall 2012.
Reviewed by Tim Lake in APA Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience, Vol. 12, No. 1, Fall 2012.
Reviewed by Crista Lebens in APA Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience, Vol. 12, No. 1, Fall 2012.
Reviewed by Cris Mayo in APA Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience, Vol. 12, No. 1, Fall 2012.
Reviewed by David Roediger in APA Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience, Vol. 12, No. 1, Fall 2012.
Reviewed by Grant J. Silva in APA Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience, Vol. 12, No. 1, Fall 2012.
Reviewed by T. L. Lott in Choice, December 2012.
Christology and Whiteness: What Would Jesus Do? Edited with Introduction by George Yancy. New York: Routledge (2012).
Reviewed by Kara N. Slade in Political Theology, Vol. 16, No. 1, January 2015.
Reviewed by Darrius D. Hills in Religious Studies Review, Vol. 40, Issue 3, September, 2014.
Reviewed by Anthony Reddie in Black Theology, Vol. 12, No. 9, April 2014.
Reviewed by Jessica Patella Konig in APA Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience, Vol. 12, No. 2, Spring 2013.
Reviewed by Jon Nilson in Theological Studies, 74.3 (Sept. 2013).
Reviewed by Diana L. Hayes in The Journal of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium, VI (2013): 131-137.
Reframing the Practice of Philosophy: Bodies of Color, Bodies of Knowledge. Edited with Introduction and chapter by George Yancy. SUNY Press (2012).
Reviewed by Anna Carastathis in Philosophy in Review, Vol. XXXIV, No. 1-2, 2014.
Reviewed by Grant J. Silva in APA Newsletter on Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2013.
Reviewed by L.L. Lovern in Choice, August 2012.
Therapeutic Uses of Rap and Hip-Hop. Co-edited and co-authored Introduction with Susan Hadley. New York: Routledge (2011).
Reviewed by Audrey Hausig in Music Therapy Perspectives, Vol. 30, 2013.
Reviewed by Christine M. Rine in Health & Social Work, Vol. 38, No. 1, February, 2013.
Reviewed by Carol Drucker in PsycCRITIQUES, 57 (29), 2012.
Reviewed by Helen Short in British Journal of Music Therapy, Vol. 26, No.2, 2012.
Reviewed by Philippa Derrington in Journal of Social Work Practice, 26 (2), 2012.
Reviewed by A.C. Shahriari in Choice, May, 2012.
Reviewed by Carolyn Hart in the Australian Journal of Music Therapy, Volume 23, 2012.
Reviewed by Pauline Culliney, which first appeared in BACP Children & Young People, December 2012 issue, p47.
The Center Must Not Hold: White Women Philosophers on the Whiteness of Philosophy. (Foreword by Sandra Harding) Edited with Introduction by George Yancy. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (2010). The first paperback edition of this book was published in 2011.
Reviewed by Taine Duncan in Philosophy & Social Criticism, 39 (6), 2013.
Reviewed by Lale Demirturk in African American Review, Volume 44.3, 2012.
Reviewed by Lauren Freeman in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 26, no. 2, Spring, 2011.
Critical Perspectives on bell hooks (Critical Social Thought Series). Co-edited with Maria Del Guadalupe Davidson. Co-authored Introduction and additional submission of chapter. New York: Routledge (2009).
Reviewed by Alexis Shotwell in APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, Vol. 10, No. 2, Spring, 2011.
Reviewed by Robert Con Davis-Undiano in APA Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience, Vol. 09, No. 1, Fall 2009.
Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race. (Foreword by Linda Alcoff) Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield (2008). (Received Honorable Mention from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights)
White Balance, written and directed by Nima Tajbakhsh was inspired by my philosophical work on Black bodies as seen through the white gaze.
Reviewed by A. Todd Franklin in APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, Vol. 10, No. 2, Spring, 2011.
Reviewed by David Polizzi in Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology, Vol. 3 (1), 2011
Reviewed by Melvin L. Rogers in Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 24, No. 2, 2010.
Reviewed by Matthew W. Hughey in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 33, No. 7 July 2010.
Reviewed by Richard A. Jones in Radical Philosophy Review, Vol. 13, No. 1 2010.
Reviewed by Mark W. Westmoreland in In-Spire Journal of Law, Politics and Societies, Vol. 4., No. 2 2010.
Reviewed by David Clinton Wills in APA Newsletter on Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy, Vol. 09, No. 2, 2010.
Reviewed by Clevis Headley, under the title "The Existential Turn in African American Philosophy: Disclosing the Existential Phenomenological Foundations of Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race in The CLR James Journal, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Spring) 2010.
Reviewed (with modifications) by Clevis Headley, under the title "The Existential Turn in African American Philosophy: Disclosing the Existential Phenomenological Foundations of Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race in APA Newsletter on Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy, Vol. 09, No. 2, 2010.
Reviewed by Steve Martinot in Socialism and Democracy, Vol. 23, No.3. 2009.
Reviewed by Cynthia Willett in APA Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience, Vol. 09, No. 1, Fall 2009.
Reviewed by L.L. Lovern in Choice, June 2009.
Reviewed by E. Lale Demirturk in MELUS, 34 (4), Winter 2009.
Reviewed by John T. Warren in The Review of Communication, Vol. 9, No. 3, July 2009.
Reviewed by Timothy Chambers in Radical Philosophy: A Journal of Socialist and Feminist Philosophy, 156, Jul/Aug 2009.
Philosophy in Multiple Voices. Edited with Introduction by George Yancy. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield (2007). (Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Award for 2009).
Reviewed by L.L. Lovern in Choice, March 2008.
Reviewed by Mark Chekola in APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, Vol. 08, No.1, Fall 2008.
Narrative Identities: Psychologists Engaged in Self-Construction. Co-edited with Susan Hadley. Preface by Yancy and Hadley. London: Jessica Kingsley Press (2005).
Reviewed by Kristen Hennessy in Janus Head, 2007.
Reviewed by Carolyn Kenny in Nordic Journal of Music Therapy (15 (1), 2006.
Reviewd by Elizabeth McCardell in Metapsychology:Online Reviews, 2007.
Reviewed by Hevern, V. W. under "Building Lives (and Theory) in a Post-Positivist Age" in PsycCRITIQUES-Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 51(2), Article 11, 2006.
White on White/Black on Black. (Foreword by Cornel West) Edited with Introduction and chapter by George Yancy. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield (2005). (Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Award for 2005).
Reviewed by Lisa Heldke in The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 20, No.4, 2006.
Reviewed by Clevis Headley in Philosophia Africana, Vol. 9, No. 1, March 2006.
Reviewed by M.R. Michau in Choice, November, 2005.
Reviewed by Mildred Mortimer in The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms, Vol.12, No. 12, 2007.
What White Looks Like: African American Philosophers on the Whiteness Question. Edited with Introduction and chapter by George Yancy. New York: Routledge (2004).
Reviewed by L. Sebastian Purcell in Essays in Philosophy: A Biannual Journal, Vol. 9, No.1, January 2008.
Reviewed by Mike Hill in CLIO, 35.1 Fall 2005.
Reviewed by T. L. Lott in Choice, January 2005.
Reviewed by Audrey Thompson in APA Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience, Vol. 04, No. 1 Fall 2004.
The Philosophical I: Personal Reflections on Life in Philosophy. Edited with Introduction and chapter by George Yancy. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield (2002).
Reviewed by David Macey in Radical Philosophy: A Journal of Socialist and Feminist Philosophy, 122, 3003.
Reviewed by D. Stewart in Choice, June 2003.
Reviewed by Dan Warner in APA Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience, Vol. 02, No. 2, June 2003.
Reviewed by Anthony Egan in Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies, Vol. 31, No. 2, November 2004.
Reviewed by Jeanette Bicknell in Philosophy in Review, 24:1, 2004.
Cornel West: A Critical Reader. (Afterword by Cornel West) Edited with Introduction and chapter by George Yancy. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers (2001).
Reviewed by Leslie Armour in Library Journal, v126, i14, September 2001.
Reviewed by Peniel E. Joseph in semcoop.com, Fall 2001.
Reviewed by Emmett L. Bradbury in Ethics, Vol. 113, No. 1, October 2002.
African-American Philosophers: 17 Conversations. Edited with Introduction, and all interviews conducted by George Yancy. New York: Routledge, 1998. (Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Award for 1999).
Reviewed by R.M. Stewart in Choice, June 1999.
Reviewed by Vernon Ford in Booklist, November 1, 1998.
Reviewed by Stella Sandford in Radical Philosophy: A Journal of Socialist and Feminist Philosophy, 95 May/June, 1999.
Reviewed by John Pittman in The British Society for the History of Philosophy Newsletter, Vol. 8, No.1, March 2000.
Reviewed by James G. Spady in New Observer, February 10, 1999.
Reviewed by Arnold Farr, in The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine.
Reviewed by Terry C. Skeats in Library Journal, 1998.