@misc{Yancy2019,
       author = "Yancy, George",
       title =  {{A Letter of Love: And the Return of White Backlash}},
       howpublished = "\url{https://ir.hamilton.edu/do/b90edcbb-976d-4e18-92d3-cd309e4be5ce}",
       institution = {Hamilton College},
       year = 2019,
       month = jul,
       school = {Philosophy},
}

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Date

July 3rd, 2019

Description

In this talk I will explore what it means to deploy love in the process of critically engaging whiteness. Love will be discussed as a site of vulnerability, courageous listening, and the capacity to be what I call un-suturing. I will then explore some of the graphic white racist vitriol that I received as a result of asking white America to face its whiteness/racism. I explore this hatred as a response grounded partly in the arrogance of whiteness and its failure to tarry with the fact that the "innocence" of whiteness no longer exists. I will conclude with a brief discussion about what it involves for whiteness to be in crisis, which I argue is a positive way of beginning to undo whiteness.

Type of Work

• Lecture

Institution

Hamilton College

Area of Study

• Philosophy

Sponsor

• Philosophy Department

Event

Hamilton College Summer Program in Philosophy

Location

Clinton, NY, USA

Part of Collection

Hamilton College Summer Program in Philosophy

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