E-raamat: Black Men from behind the Veil: Ontological Interrogations

"A masterful anthology that reveals the absolute evil of racial misandry. Voices that live the experience of anti-Black misandry that scream the utter sadness expressed by W.E.B. DuBois at the death of his son in 'Of the Passing of the First-Born.' By death, his son escaped the terror of life as a Black man. A life that would be constantly on a tightrope, trapped in a fixed identity of demeaning stereotypes that would portray him as the embodiment of laziness, hyper-masculinity, hyper-patriarchal, a predator, failed parent, and useless husband. Black Men from Behind the Veil: Ontological Interrogations gives us new theories, tools, concepts, and terms that are not trapped in a world that treats the ontological beingthe collective population of Black menas an undifferentiated debased essence. Black men tell their story." -- Leonard Harris, Purdue University "In a characterstically brilliant, relevant, and prophetic series of books edited by George Yancy, we are treated to a series of well-crafted essays which carefully examine the interiors of human pain embedded in blackness. This book should be mandatory reading in schools and universities where critical race theory is being fought against. Here is a book which could respond to that resistance with scholarly rigor and high intelligence by leading scholars at the top of their fields. I am much impressed by this long-awaited book." -- Teodros Kiros, Berklee College "Black Men from Behind the Veil collects essays from a diverse and vibrant cross-section of contemporary philosophers of race and black male studies. This text stands out as both an elegy for those who still can't breathe and a future of that philosophical logos that starts, with a gasp, in the grasping of that which is disclosed and concealed in those black bodies behind the veil, and the continuance of the violence that enshrouds them/us. The authors in this collection focus our attention on anti-black violence and its traditions and stands out as a challenge for its readers to take up this thinking, this situation, this relation to being, and think them anew without apologetics and excuses." -- Alfred Frankowski, Southern Illinois University Carbondale