George Yancy

George Yancy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, works primarily in the areas of critical race theory, critical whiteness studies, and philosophy and the Black experience. He is particularly interested in the formation of African-American philosophical thought as articulated within the social context and historical space of anti-Black racism, African-American agency, and identity formation. His current philosophical project explores the theme of racial embodiment, particularly in terms of how white bodies live their whiteness unreflectively vis-à-vis the interpellation and deformation not only of the black body, but the white body, the philosophical identity formation of whites, and questions of white privilege and power formation. He is also interested in the intersection between philosophy and biography, and how this intersection implicates normative issues at the level of praxis. As Co-Editor of The American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience, he firmly believes in the significance of black philosophical voices, and black knowledge production, as sites of conceptual and existential transformative possibilities. He also serves as an ex officio member of the American Philosophical Association Committee on Blacks in Philosophy.

Email: yancy518@duq.edu

Education

B.A. (cum laude), Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, 1985, and wrote honors thesis under the direction of American philosopher Wilfrid Sellars; M.A., Philosophy, Yale University, 1987; M.A. Africana Studies, New York University, 2004, recipient of the Distinguished Henry M. MacCracken Fellowship; Ph.D., Duquesne University, 2005, Recipient of the first McAnulty Fellowship at Duquesne University , and a Recipient of a Duquesne University Dissertation Writing Fellowship.

Courses

African-American Philosophy; Black Bodies, White Gazes; Critical Race Theory; Race Matters: Philosophical and Literary Perspectives; Race and Film; Basic Philosophical Questions, Critical Whiteness Studies.

Selected Publications

Books

Look, A White! Philosophical Essays on Whiteness. Authored by George Yancy. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press (2012).

Christology and Whiteness: What Would Jesus Do? Edited with Introduction by George Yancy. New York: Routledge (2012).

Reframing the Practice of Philosophy: Bodies of Color, Bodies of Knowledge.  Edited with Introduction and chapter by George Yancy. SUNY Press (2012).


Therapeutic Uses of Rap and Hip Hop. Co-edited and co-authored Introduction with Susan Hadley. New York: Routledge (2011).

 

The Center Must Not Hold: White Women Philosophers on the Whiteness of Philosophy. Lanham , MD : Lexington Books. Edited with Introduction by George Yancy (2010).

  • Reviewed by Lauren Freeman in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 26, no. 2, Spring, 2011.

Critical Perspectives on bell hooks. Co-edited with Maria Del Guadalupe Davidson. Co-authored Introduction and additional submission of chapter. New York: Routledge (2009).

  • Reviewed by Alexis Shotwell in APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, Vol. 10, No. 2, Spring, 2011
  • Reviewed by Robert Con Davis-Undiano in APA Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience, Vol. 09, No. 1, Fall 2009.

Black Bodies, White Gazes, The Continuing Significance of Race. Authored by George Yancy. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. Honorable Mention from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights.

  • Reviewed by A. Todd Franklin in APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, Vol. 10, No. 2, Spring, 2011.
  • Reviewed by David Polizzi in Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology, Vol. 3 (1), 2011
  • Reviewed by Melvin L. Rogers in Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 24,  No. 2, 2010.
  • Reviewed by Mark W. Westmoreland in In-Spire Journal of Law, Politics and Societies, Vol. 4., No. 2 2010.
  • Reviewed by Clevis Headley, under the title "The Existential Turn in African American Philosophy: Disclosing the Existential Phenomenological Foundations of Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race in The CLR James Journal, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Spring) 2010.
  • Reviewed (with modifications) by Clevis Headley, under the title "The Existential Turn in African American Philosophy: Disclosing the Existential Phenomenological Foundations of Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race in APA Newsletter on Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy, Vol. 09, No. 2, 2010.
  • Reviewed by David Clinton Wills in APA Newsletter on Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy, Vol. 09, No.2, 2010
  • Reviewed by Matthew W. Hughey in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 33, No. 7 July 2010.
  • Reviewed by Richard A. Jones in Radical Philosophy Review, Vol. 13, No. 1 2010.
  • Review by Timothy Chambers in Radical Philosophy: A Journal of Socialist and Feminist Philosophy, 156, Jul/Aug 2009.
  • Reviewed by Steve Martinot in Socialism and Democracy, Vol. 23, No.3. 2009.
  • Reviewed by Cynthia Willett in APA Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience, Vol. 09, No. 1, Fall 2009.
  • Reviewed by L.L. Lovern in Choice, June 2009.
  • Reviewed by E. Lale Demirturk in MELUS, Vol. 34, No. 4 Winter 2009.
  • Reviewed by John T. Warren in The Review of Communication, Vol. 9, No. 3, July 2009.

Philosophy in Multiple Voices. Edited with Introduction by George Yancy. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. (Winner of the Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award for 2008)

  • Reviewed by L.L. Lovern in Choice, March 2008.
  • Reviewed by Mark Chekola in APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, Vol. 08, No.1, Fall 2008.

Narrative Identities: Psychologists Engaged in Self-Construction. Co-edited with Susan Hadley. Preface by Yancy and Hadley. London: Jessica Kingsley Press (2005).

  • Reviewed by Kristen Hennessy in Janus Head, 2007.
  • Reviewd by Elizabeth McCardell in Metapsychology:Online Reviews, 2007.
  • Reviewed by Carolyn Kenny in Nordic Journal of Music Therapy (15 (1), 2006.
  • Reviewed by Hevern, V. W. under "Building Lives (and Theory) in a Post-Positivist Age" in PsycCRITIQUES-Contemporary Psychology:APA Review of Books, 51(2), Article 11, 2006.

White on White/Black on Black. (Foreword by Cornel West) Edited with Introduction and chapter by George Yancy. Lanham , MD: Rowman & Littlefield (2005). (Winner of the Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award for 2005)

  • Reviewed by Mildred Mortimer in The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms, Vol.12, No. 12, 2007.
  • Reviewed by Lisa Heldke in The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 20, No.4, 2006.
  • Reviewed by Clevis Headley in Philosophia Africana, Vol. 9, No. 1, March 2006.
  • Reviewed by M.R. Michau in Choice, November, 2005

What White Looks Like: African American Philosophers on the Whiteness Question. Edited with Introduction and chapter by George Yancy. New York: Routledge (2004).

  • Reviewed by L. Sebastian Purcell in Essays in Philosophy: A Biannual Journal, Vol. 9, No.1, January 2008.
  • Reviewed by Mike Hill in CLIO, 35.1 Fall 2005.
  • Reviewed by T. L. Lott in Choice, January 2005.
  • Reviewed by Audrey Thompson in APA Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience, Vol. 04, No. 1 Fall 2004.

The Philosophical I: Personal Reflections on Life in Philosophy. Edited with Introduction and chapter by George Yancy. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield (2002).

  • Reviewed by David Macey in Radical Philosophy: A Journal of Socialist and Feminist Philosophy, 122, 2003.
  • Reviewed by D. Stewart in Choice, June 2003.
  • Reviewed by Dan Warner in APA Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience, Vol. 02, No. 2, June 2003.
  • Reviewed by Anthony Egan in Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies, Vol. 31, No. 2, November 2004.
  • Reviewed by Jeanette Bicknell in Philosophy in Review, 24:1, 2004.

Cornel West: A Critical Reader. Edited with Introduction and chapter by George Yancy. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers (2001).

  • Reviewed by Emmett L. Bradbury in Ethics, Vol. 113, No. 1, October 2002.
  • Reviewed by Leslie Armour in Library Journal, v126, i14, September 2001

African-American Philosophers: 17 Conversations. Edited with Introduction, and all interviews conducted by George Yancy. New York: Routledge, 1998. (Winner of the Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award for 1999)

  • Reviewed by John Pittman in The British Society for the History of Philosophy Newsletter, Vol. 5, No.1, March 2000.
  • Reviewed by R.M. Stewart in Choice, June 1999.
  • Reviewed by Stella Sandford in Radical Philosophy: A Journal of Socialist and Feminist Philosophy, 95 May/June, 1999.
  • Reviewed by James G. Spady in New Observer, February 10, 1999.
  • Reviewed by Vernon Ford in Booklist, November 1, 1998.
  • Reviewed by Terry C. Skeats in Library Journal, 1998

 

Articles

 

"Narrative Descriptions from the Ground Up: Epistemological and Existential Importance." The American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience, Vol. no. 2, Spring 2011: 3-6.

"Loving Wisdom and the Effort to Make Philosophy 'Unsafe'" in Epistemologies Humanities Journal, 2011.

"The Scholar Who Coined the Term Ebonics: A Conversation with Dr. Robert L. Williams," in Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, Vol. 10, no. 1, January-March, 2011: 41-51.

"African-American Philosophy through the Lens of Socio-Existential Struggle," Philosophy & Social Criticism, Volume 37, 2011. 551-574.

"A Professor Tackles Racism in the Classroom.” The Chronicle of Higher Education, Volume LVI, Number 8, October 16, 2009: B36-B37.

“Whiting Up and Blacking Out: White Privilege, Race, and White Chicks , ” (with Tracy Ryser) African American Review, 42. 3-4, Fall/Winter 2008: 1-16.

"Colonial Gazing: The Production of the Black Body as Other." The Western Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 32, no. 1, Spring 2008: 1-15.

"Elevators, Social Spaces and Racism: A Philosophical Analysis." Philosophy & Social Criticism, Vol. 34, 2008: 827-860.

"Situated Black Women's Voices in/on the Profession of Philosophy." Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Vol. 23, Issue 2, 2008: 155-189.

“Political and Magical Realist Semiotics in Kamau Brathwaite's Reading of The Tempest.” The CLR James Journal, Vol. 12, no. 1, 2006: 85-108.

“Whiteness and the Return of the Black Body.” The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 19, no. 4, 2005: 215-241.

“Historical Varieties of African-American Labor: Sites of Agency and Resistance.” The Western Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 28, no. 2, Summer 2004: 337–353.

“Geneva Smitherman: The Social Ontology of African-American Languaging, the Power of Nommo and the Hermeneutics of Linguistic Combat and Identity.” The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 18, no. 4, 2004: 273­–299.

“Paul Weiss: Addressing Persistent Root Questions Until the Very End” The Review of Metaphysics, vol. LVI (1), issue no. 221, September 2002: 123–155.

“The Existential Dimensions of Frederick Douglass's Autobiographical Narrative: A Beauvoirian Examination,” Philosophy & Social Criticism , Vol. 28 (3), 2002: 297–320.

“Lyotard and Irigaray: Challenging the (white) Male Philosophical Metanarrative Voice,” Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol. 33 (4), 2002: 563–580.

“A Foucauldian (Genealogical) Reading of Whiteness: The Production of the Black Body/Self and the Racial Pathology of Pecola Breedlove in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye” in Radical Philosophy Review, vol. 4, no. 1&2, 2001: 1–29.

“Feminism and the Subtext of Whiteness: Black Women's Experiences as a Site of Identity Formation and Contestation of Whiteness,” Western Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 24, no. 3, 2000: 155–165.

“The Black Self Within A Semiotic Space of Whiteness: Reflections on the Racial Deformation of Pecola Breedlove in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye,” CLA Journal, XLIII, no. 3, 2000: 299–319.

“The Nullification of the Black Male Voice in April Sinclair's Coffee Will Make You Black,” CLA Journal, 41, no. 3, 1998: 269–278.

“Thomas Nelson Baker: The First African-American to Receive the Ph.D. in Philosophy,” in The Western Journal of Black Studies, 21 , no. 4, 1997: 253–260.

“Cornel West's Postmodern Historicist Philosophy of Religion: Problems and Implications,” in The Journal of Religious Thought, 52, no. 1, 1995

“Larry Neal: Phenomenological Facets,” CLA Journal, 36, no. 1, 1992: 41–51.

“Whose Democracy?” The American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience, Vol. 5, no. 1, Fall 2005: 14–20.

“W.E.B. Du Bois on Whiteness and the Pathology of Black Double Consciousness.” The American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience, Vol. 4, no. 1, Fall 2004.

“Post-9-11 and the Art of a Responsible Philosopher.” The Black Arts Quarterly, Vol. 8, issue 1, Spring 2003: 31–33.

“In the Spirit of the A.M.E. Church: Gilbert Haven Jones as an Early Black Philosopher and Educator.” A.M.E. Church Review, Vol. CXVIII, No. 388, 2002: 43-57. Reprinted in The American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience, Vol. 2, no. 2, Spring 2003: 42–48.

“Black Women's Experiences, Philosophy of Religion and Womanist Theology: An Introduction Through Jacquelyn Grant's Hermeneutics of Location,” The American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience, Vol. 2, no. 1, Fall 2002: 56–65.

“On the Power of Black Aesthetic Ideals: Thomas Nelson Baker as Preacher and Philosopher,” The AME Church Review, vol. CXVII, no. 384 (Oct./Dec.), 2001.

“What Does it Mean to be a Black Philosopher in the 21st Century?” The Black Arts Quarterly, Vol. 6, Issue 1 (Winter/Spring), 2001.

“Thomas Nelson Baker: Toward An Understanding of a Pioneer Black Philosopher,” The American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience, 95, no. 2, Spring, 1996: 5–9.

Chapters

"Introduction: Framing the problem" in Christology and Whiteness: What Would Jesus Do? Edited with Introduction by George Yancy. New York: Routledge (2012).

"Introduction: Inappropriate Subjects? "in Reframing the Practice of Philosophy: Bodies of Color, Bodies of Knowledge. Edited with Introduction and chapter by George Yancy. SUNY Press (2012).

"Dr. King's Philosophy of Religion: A Theology of Somebodiness" in Robert Birt, ed., The Philosopher, King: Critical Essays on the Liberatory Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr., Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, 2011.

"The Manichean Divide and Ontological Truncation: Charles Johnson on the 'Black-as-Body' in Charles Johnson: Embracing the World. Editors: Nibir K. Ghosh & E. Ethelbert Miller, New Delhi: Authorspress (2011).

"Give'em Just One Mic: The Therapeutic Agency of Rap and Hip Hop" (with Susan Hadley) in Therapeutic Uses of Rap and Hip Hop. Co-edited and co-authored Introduction with Susan Hadley. New York: Routledge (2011).

"Introduction: Troublemaking Allies," The Center Must Not Hold: White Women Philosophers on the Whiteness of Philosophy.  Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.  Edited with Introduction by George Yancy (2010).

"Philosophy and the Other of the Second Sex," Afterword for Maria del Guadalupe Davidson, et al (eds.) Convergences: Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy, SUNY Press (2010).

"Robbing Black Identity," in Racism in The Autobiography of Malcolm X, New York: Greenhaven Press (2009).

“The Black Body: Under the weight of White America's Microtomes,” Afterword for Carol E. Henderson (ed) America and the Black Body,  Madison , NJ : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press  (2009).

“Introduction,” (with Maria del Guadalupe Davidson) in Maria Del Guadalupe Davidson and George Yancy (ed) Critical Perspectives on bell hooks . New York : Routledge (2009).

“ Engaging Whiteness and The Practice Freedom: The Creation of Subversive Academic Spaces,” in Maria Del Guadalupe Davidson and George Yancy (ed) Critical Perspectives on bell hooks . New York : Routledge (2009).

“Preface” with Susan Hadley in Narrative Identities: Psychologists Engaged in Self-Construction. Co-edited with Susan Hadley. London: Jessica Kingsley Press (2005).

“Introduction,” in George Yancy (ed.) White on White / Black on Black Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield (2005).

“‘Seeing Blackness' From Within the Manichean Divide,” in George Yancy (ed.) White on White / Black on Black Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield (2005).

“Fragments of a Social Ontology of Whiteness,” Introduction to George Yancy (ed.) What White Looks Like: African American Philosophers on the Whiteness Question. New York: Routledge (January 2004).

“A Foucauldian (Genealogical) Reading of Whiteness: The Production of the Black Body/Self and the Racial Deformation of Pecola Breedlove in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye” in George Yancy (ed.) What White Looks Like: African American Philosophers on the Whiteness Question. New York: Routledge (January 2004). Revised version originally appeared in Radical Philosophy Review, vol. 4, no. 1&2, 2001: 1–29.

“Philosophy and the Situated Narrative Self,” Introduction to George Yancy (ed.) The Philosophical I: Personal Reflections on Life in Philosophy. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield (2002).

“Between Facticity and Possibility,” in George Yancy (ed.) The Philosophical I: Personal Reflections on Life in Philosophy. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield (2002).

“Cornel West: The Vanguard of Existential and Democratic Hope,” Introduction to Cornel West: A Critical Reader, edited by George Yancy, Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers (2001).

“Religion and the Mirror of God: Historicism, Truth and Religious Pluralism,” in Cornel West: A Critical Reader, edited by George Yancy, Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers (2001).

“Interview with Angela Davis,” reprinted in Women of Color and Philosophy (ed. Naomi Zack, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, Spring 2000).

“Interview with Cornel West,” reprinted in The Cornel West Reader (ed. Cornel West, Basic Civitas Books, 1999: pp. 19-33).

“Philosophy and Moving the Center of Conversation," Introduction to African-American Philosophers, 17 Conversations, edited by George Yancy. New York : Routledge, 1998.

Reference/Encyclopedic Entries

“Angela Y. Davis” in An Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories (ed. Lorraine Code, Routledge, October 2000).

“Cornel West” in Encyclopedia of American Philosophy (eds. John Lachs and Robert Talisse, Routledge, 2008).

“Martin Luther King, Jr.” in Encyclopedia of American Philosophy (eds. John Lachs and Robert Talisse, Routledge, 2008).

“Thomas Nelson Baker, Sr.” in African American National Biography (eds. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Evelyn Higgenbotham, Oxford University Press, 2008).

“Gilbert Haven Jones” in African American National Biography (eds. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Evelyn Higgenbotham, Oxford University Press, 2008).

“Joyce M. Cook” in African American National Biography (eds. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Evelyn Higgenbotham, Oxford University Press, 2008).

Scholarly Book Reviews

Review of Ted Gioia's Healing Songs in Popular Music and Society , Vol. 31, no. 2, 2008: 287-289.

Review of Tim Wise's White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son in The American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience Vol.06, no. 2, Spring 2007: 13–17.

Review of Beverly Clack's Misogyny in the Western Philosophical Tradition: A Reader, in The APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy Vol. 2, no. 1, Fall 2002: 120-121.

Review of Harryette Mullen's Drudge and Muse, CLA Journal, XLIV, no. 4, 2001: 522-527.

Review of Christopher Small's Music of the Common Tongue: Survival and Celebration in African American Music, in Popular Music and Society, Vol. 24.4, 2000: 121-124.

Review of Janet A. Kourany's Philosophy in a Feminist Voice: Critiques and Reconstructions, in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 14, no. 2, Spring, 1999: 129-136.

Review of Jon Michael Spencer's Researching Black Music, in Popular Music and Society, 22, no. 4, 1998: 123-125.

Review of Robin D.G. Kelley's Yo' Mama's Disfunktional!: Fighting Cultural Wars in Urban America, in Social Science Quarterly, 79, no. 4, 1998: 914-916.

Review Essay of Brenda D. Gottschild's Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance: Dance and Other Contexts, in Popular Music and Society, 22, no. 2, 1998: 125-128.

Review of Cheikh Anta Diop: Poem For The Living, in CLA Journal, XLII, no. 2, 1998: 265-271.

Review Essay of James G. Spady's, Stefan Dupres' and Charles G. Lee's Twisted Tales: In The Hip Hop Streets of Philly, in Popular Music and Society, 19, no. 3 (1995): 131-136.

Selected Newspaper Articles and Book Reviews

Dr. Yancy has published in total over 100 newspaper articles and book reviews that can be found at Ethnic NewsWatch, which is a full-text database accessible through ProQuest . A small sample of titles can be found below.

"If Haley Plagarized, How Real Was the Message of X?," The Philadelphia Tribune, March 9, 1993.

"King Realized Power of Black Church," The Philadelphia Tribune, January 14, 1994.

“Is Criticism of Gangsta Rap Based On Class Bias?," The Philadelphia Tribune, March 1, 1994.

"Gangsta Rap: Let It Speak For Itself," The Philadelphia Tribune, (Weekend Portfolio) January 6, 1995.

"Mean Streets Provide Unexpected Pleasures." The Philadelphia Tribune, February 24, 1995.

"Can God Be Found in the Ghetto In the Cool of the Day?" The Philadelphia Tribune, March 21, 1995.

"Tupac Shakur's `Dear Mama' Strikes a Chord in All Black Children." The Philadelphia Tribune, April 18, 1995.

"Our African-American Duel Identity is Problematic in the U.S." The Philadelphia Tribune, May 9, 1995.

"George Yancy Briefly Considers God's Nature." The Philadelphia Tribune, May 23, 1995.

"So-Called 'Gangsta Rap' Should Be Called Reality Rap: C. Delores Tucker's Anti - 'Gansta Rap' Motives May Be Suspect. The Philadelphia Tribune, July 21, 1995.

"Shake Off Subtle Influence of White Nationalism." The Philadelphia Tribune, August 22, 1995.

"Witness The Sublime Rather Than Project The Ugly." The Philadelphia Tribune, November 24, 1995.

"Putting the Question to God - Why Do We Suffer? Does the Pain have Redemptive Value? Does it have any value at all?" The Philadelphia Tribune, December 22, 1995.

"Black Porn Holds Serious Message For Both Sexes: Sex Magazines Raise Troubling Questions." The Philadelphia Tribune, February 23, 1996.

"Where One Finds Black Intellectual Exchange of Ideas." The Philadelphia Tribune, May 7, 1996.

"Whites Must Own Up to their Racist Attitudes: Racism Exists as Some Refuse to Acknowledge it." The Philadelphia Tribune, December 3, 1996.

"Ebonics Went to Court in Michigan, And Won!: A White Judge Ruled in 1979 that Black English was More than Faulty Dialect." The Philadelphia Tribune, January 3, 1997 .

"'Gangsta Rap': Language in the context Based on One's Daily Life-Experiences." The Philadelphia Tribune, February 4, 1997.

Long Walk To Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela. By Nelson Mandela. The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine April Issue, 1995

Jews and Blacks: Let The Healing Begin. By Michael Lerner and Cornel West. The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, July Issue, 1995.

Pryor Convictions and Other Life Sentences. By Richard Pryor with Todd Gold. The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, September Issue, 1995.

Divided To The Vein: A Journey Into Race and Family. By Scott Minerbrook. The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, May Issue, 1996.

The Assassination of the Black Male Image. By Earl Ofari Hutchinson. The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, January Issue, 1997.

Some Crawl and Never Walk. By Celestine Tate. The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, March Issue, 1997.

Darwin 's Athletes. By John Hoberman. The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, April Issue, 1997.

Restoring Hope: Conversations on the Future of Black America. By Cornel West, edited by Kelvin Shawn Sealey. The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, February Issue, 1998.

God is a Verb: Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism. By David A. Cooper. The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, April Issue, 1998.

Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons. By Jane Lazarre. The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, May Issue, 1998.

Black on White: Black Writers on What it Means to be White. Edited by David E. Roediger. The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, July Issue, 1998.

White Lies: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in White Supremacist Discourse. By Jesse Daniels. The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, September Issue, 1998.

Manliness and Civilization . By Gail Bederman. The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine , November Issue, 1998.

White Racism. By Joe R. Feagan and Hernan Vera. The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, December Issue, 1998.

The Self After Postmodernity. By Calvin O. Schrag. The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, January Issue, 1999.

White. By Richard Dyer. The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, March Issue, 1999.

White Reign. Edited by Joe L. Kincheloe, Shirley R. Steinberg, Nelson M. Rodriguez, and Ronald E. Chennault. The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, April Issue, 1999.

Race Traitor. By Noel Ignatiev and John Garvey. The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, May Issue, 1999.

Postmodernism and the Social Sciences. By Pauline Marie Rosenau. The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine , June Issue, 1999.

The Truth About the Truth: De-confusing and Re-constructing the Postmodern World. Edited by Walter Truett Anderson. The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, July Issue, 1999.

Psychology and Postmodernism. Edited by Steiner Kvale. The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, September Issue, 1999.

Feminist Epistemologies . Edited by Linda Alcoff and Elizabeth Potter. The Philadelphia Tribune Magazine , October Issue, 1999.

Dr. George Yancy