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
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