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Until our lungs give out : conversations on race, justice, and the future / George Yancy ; foreword by Tim Wise.

by Yancy, George, author.

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Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2023]

African Americans -- Civil rights.

African Americans -- Violence against.

Racism -- United States.

Racial justice -- United States.

Political activists -- United States -- Interviews.

United States -- Race relations.

9781538176429 hardcover

1538176424 hardcover

xxi, 373 pages ; 24 cm.

Acknowledgments -- Foreword / Tim Wise -- Introduction : Critical voices that refuse to be silenced / George Yancy -- Part 1 : Whiteness as innocence must die -- 1. It's time for "whiteness as usual" to end : how do we overcome the death wish of white supremacy? / Interview with David R. Roediger -- 2. To be Black in the U.S. is to have a knee against your neck each day / Interview with George Yancy by Woojin Lim -- 3. Confronting prejudice isn't enough : we must eradicate the white racial frame / Interview with Joe Feagin -- 4. We have to let white supremacy die in order to truly live / Interview with David Kyuman Kim -- Part 2 : Global anti-Blackness -- 5. Afropessimism forces us to rethink our most basic assumptions about society / Interview with Frank B. Wilderson III -- 6. "I can't breathe" is a cry well known to Black Indigenous people in Australia / Interview with Chelsea Watego -- 7. Black feminist "back talk" anchors resistance on both sides of the Atlantic / Interview with Akwugo Emejulu -- 8. 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 -- 9. Trump is attacking critical race theory because it is a force for liberation / Interview with Mari Matsuda -- 10. Education will be critical in the fight for democracy and antiracism / Interview with Pedro A. Noguera -- 11. Paulo Freire : critical education in a world in need of repair / Interview with Peter McLaren -- Part 4 : Challenging white foundations -- 12. The Tulsa Race Massacre went way beyond "Black Wall Street" / Interview with Robin D. G. Kelley -- 13. The whiteness of Harvard and Wall Street is "Jim Crow, new style" / Interview with Cornel West -- 14. U.S. founders demonized Indigenous people while co-opting their political practices / Interview with Brian Burkhart -- 15. Founded on inequality, can the U.S. ever be truly democratic and inclusive? / Interview with Tracy Denean Sharpley-Whiting -- Part 5 : Assaults on the Black body -- 16. White indifference is normalizing spectacular acts of violence / Interview with Robin D. G. Kelley -- 17. White journalists are still using the N-word : this is an intolerable assault on Black freedom / Interview with Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor -- 18. Protests unleashed by murder of George Floyd exceed all in U.S. history / Interview with Noam Chomsky -- Part 6 : Matters of faith and religion -- 19. Black womanist theology offers hope in the face of white supremacy / Interview with Kelly Brown Douglas -- 20. Christianity is empty if it doesn't address the racist carceral state / Interview with Mark Lewis Taylor -- 21. White supremacist Christianity drives Trump's loyal mob : we must scream it down / Interview with Susannah Heschel -- Part 7 : The politics of catastrophe -- 22. Mourning is a political act amid the pandemic and its disparities / Interview with Judith Butler -- 23. Trump's lying about COVID amounts to treason / Interview with Eduardo Mendieta -- 24. Big Pharma cares more about profiting from COVID than human survival / Interview with Noam Chomsky -- Part 8 : Realizing (or imagining) the possible -- 25. Black trans feminist thought can set us free / Interview with Che Gossett -- 26. Reaching beyond "Black faces in high places" / Interview with Joy James -- Part 9 : White mob mentality -- 27. The Capitol siege was white supremacy in action : trial evidence confirms that / Interview with Peniel E. Joseph -- 28. Capitol mob reveals ongoing refusal to accept Black votes as legitimate / Interview with Eric Foner -- 29. Trump has adopted a "Viva Death!" approach to the presidency / Interview with Noam Chomsky -- Notes -- About the contributors -- Index.

"Award-winning author, scholar, and social visionary George Yancy brings together the greatest minds of our time to speak truth to power and welcome everyone into a conversation about the pursuit of justice, equality, and peace"--

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