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Until Our Lungs Give Out

Conversations on Race, Justice, and the Future

by George Yancy
Tim Wise
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A 2023 Library Journal Best Social Sciences Title

A 2024 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title

From Library Journal's Starred Review: "All readers stand to learn something from this compelling book."

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.

This interwoven collection of searingly honest interviews with leading intellectuals includes conversations with Noam Chomsky, Judith Butler, Cornel West, Robin D. G. Kelley, and Peter McLaren. Each conversation bears witness to the weighty moment in which it was first conducted and presented by Truthout and Tikkun magazines while pointing to ramifications, future hurdles, and practical optimism for moving forward.

Learning how to speak about such topics as white supremacy and global whiteness, xenophobia, anti-BIPOC racism, fear of critical race theory, and the importance of Black feminist and trans perspectives, readers will be better able to join future conversations with their peers, those in power, and those who need to be empowered to change the status quo.

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    September 15, 2023

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      • ISBN: 9781538176436

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    • Library Journal

      Starred review from August 1, 2023

      Award-winning Yancy (philosophy, Emory Univ.; Backlash) presents this collection of interviews that are replete with ideas and insights about all that the pursuit of justice, equality, and peace entails. The author brings together leading intellectuals and philosophers--Noam Chomsky, Judith Butler, Cornel West, and Eric Foner, for example--to discuss the topic in raw, searing honesty. Author/scholar/activist Frank B. Wilderson III describes the impact of unrelenting oppression against Black people, and there are powerful chapters such as the one called, "To Be Black in the U.S. Is To Have a Knee Against Your Neck Every Day." The book also includes observations by somewhat lesser-known people: author Chelsea Watego (Indigenous health, Queensland Univ. of Technology; Another Day in the Colony); British-based political sociologist Akwugo Emejulu, and Brian Burkhart, former interim director of the Native Nations Center at the Univ. of Oklahoma, and more. Explicitly addressed is the preposterous suggestion that everyone just "move on" from thinking about racism. This book's contributors say that the only way society can do that is if white people go through some type of kenosis about their prejudices and notions that people do not deserve the same rights. VERDICT All readers stand to learn something from this compelling book.--Ellen Gilbert

      Copyright 2023 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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