By George Yancy - Foreword by Tim Wise

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Tim Wise

Introduction: Critical Voices that Refuse to be Silenced

George Yancy

Part 1: Whiteness as Innocence Must Die

• It's Time for "Whiteness as Usual" to End: How do we Overcome the Death Wish of White Supremacy?

Interview with David R. Roediger

• To be Black in the US is to Have a Knee Against Your Neck Each Day

Interview with George Yancy by Woojin Lim

• Confronting Prejudice isn't Enough: We Must Eradicate the White Racial Frame

Interview with Joe Feagin

• We Have to Let White Supremacy Die in Order to Truly Live

Interview with David Kyuman Kim

Part 2: Global Anti-Blackness

• Afropessimism Forces Us to Rethink Our Most Basic Assumptions About Society

Interview with Frank B. Wilderson, III

• "I Can't Breathe" Is a Cry Well Known to Black Indigenous People in Australia

Interview with Chelsea Watego

• Black Feminist "Back Talk" Anchors Resistance on Both Sides of the Atlantic

Interview with Akwugo Emejulu

• Anti-Black Racism is Global: So Must be the Movement to End It

Interview with Adele Norris

Part 3: Racism, Education, and Practices of Freedom

• Trump is Attacking Critical Race Theory Because it is a Force for Liberation

Interview with Mari Matsuda

• Education Will be Critical in the Fight for Democracy and Anti-Racism

Interview with Pedro A. Noguera

• Paulo Freire: Critical Education in a World in Need of Repair

Interview with Peter McLaren

Part 4: Challenging White Foundations

• The Tulsa Race Massacre Went Way Beyond "Black Wall Street"

Interview with Robin D.G. Kelley

• The Whiteness of Harvard and Wall Street is "Jim Crow, New Style"

Interview with Cornel West

• US Founders Demonized Indigenous People While Coopting their Political Practices

Interview with Brian Burkhart

• Founded on Inequality, Can the US Ever be Truly Democratic and Inclusive?

Interview with Tracy Denean Sharpley-Whiting

Part 5: Assaults on the Black Body

• White Indifference is Normalizing Spectacular Acts of Violence

Interview with Robin D.G. Kelley

• White Journalists are Still Using the N-Word: This is an Intolerable Assault on Black Freedom

Interview with Elizabeth Pryor

• Protests Unleashed by Murder of George Floyd Exceed All in US History

Interview with Noam Chomsky

Part 6: Matters of Faith and Religion

• Black Womanist Theology Offers Hope in the Face of White Supremacy

Interview with Kelly Brown Douglas

• Christianity is Empty if it Doesn't Address the Racist Carceral State

Interview with Mark L. Taylor

• White Supremacist Christianity Drives Trump's Loyal Mob: We Must Scream it Down

Interview with Susannah Heschel

Part 7: The Politics of Catastrophe

• Mourning is a Political Act Amid the Pandemic and its Disparities

Interview with Judith Butler

• Trump's Lying about COVID Amounts to Treason

Interview with Eduardo Mendieta

• Big Pharma Cares More About Profiting from COVID than Human Survival

Interview with Noam Chomsky

Part 8: Realizing (or Imagining) the Possible

• Black Trans Feminist Thought Can Set Us Free

Interview with Che Gossett

• Reaching Beyond "Black Faces in High Places"

Interview with Joy James

Part 9: White Mob Mentality

• The Capitol Siege was White Supremacy in Action: Trial Evidence Confirms That

Interview with Peniel E. Joseph

• Capitol Mob Reveals Ongoing Refusal to Accept Black Votes as Legitimate

Interview with Eric Fonner

• Trump has Adopted a "Viva Death!" Approach to the Presidency

Interview with Noam Chomsky

About the Contributors

Index