The Department of Educational Leadership
The Department of Philosophy
The Office for the Vice Provost for Diversity
Africana Studies
The Humanities Institute
will be co-sponsoring a talk on race given by
GEORGE YANCY
How it Feels to be a Racial Problem/Essence:
An Elevator Encounter
March 3rd, 2014 in Gentry 144 at 4pm
Introductory remarks by Casey Cobb and Lewis Gordon
George Yancy is Professor of Philosophy at Duquesne University. His work is located primarily in the areas of critical philosophy of race, critical whiteness studies, and philosophy and the Black experience. He has authored, edited, or co-edited seventeen books, and has published numerous academic articles, and book chapters. His first authored book, Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race, received an Honorable Mention from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights and three of his edited books have received CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Awards. His is Philosophy of Race Book Series Editor at Lexington Books. He is co-Editor of the American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience, and is an ex officio member of the American Philosophical Association Committee on Blacks in Philosophy. He has twice won the Dusquesne University McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts Faculty Award for Excellence in Scholarship. He is currently working on three edited books and a new authored book.
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