George Dewey Yancy was born on June 3,1961 and is an American philosopher who is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy at Emory University.
11 Facts About George Yancy
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George Yancy has been a professor of philosophy at Emory University since fall 2015.
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George Yancy is a distinguished Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College, one of the college's highest honors.
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George Yancy is the editor for Lexington Books' "Philosophy of Race" book series.
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George Yancy is known for his work in critical whiteness studies, critical philosophy of race, critical phenomenology, and African American philosophy, and has written, edited, or co-edited more than 20 books.
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For example, as a public intellectual, Yancy has authored numerous influential essays and conducted intellectually engaging interviews at both The New York Times philosophy column "The Stone," and at Truthout.
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George Yancy has published at CounterPunch, The Guardian, Inside Higher Ed, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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George Yancy has been interviewed on various radio stations throughout the US He has appeared in two documentaries, Lillian Smith: Breaking the Silence, an independent documentary directed by Hal Jacobs and Henry Jacobs, with support from Georgia Humanities, 2019, and Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story, a six-episode series released on July 30,2018, on Paramount Network.
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The Consortium that existed between NYU and Columbia University allowed George Yancy to enroll in a seminar on Gender and the Diaspora taught by cultural anthropologist Donna Daniels at Columbia University.
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George Yancy wrote his MA thesis under the direction of Columbia University's comparative literary theorist Farah Griffin.
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In 2015, George Yancy published an article in the New York Times' philosophy column, The Stone, entitled "Dear White America", which proved very controversial and resulted in his receiving large amounts of hate mail and harassment.