Details — Lecture: "Love: A Refusal to Accept Whiteness" — December 5
| Date: 12/5 | Time: 7 p.m. |
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Visiting Scholar George Yancy, Ph.D., the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy at Emory University, will deliver the third and final lecture of his series at 7 p.m. in the Tillotson Room of the Tippie Alumni Center on Monday, December 5. The event is free and open to the campus community and to the public. An hors d’oeuvres and dessert reception to thank George Yancy for his contributions to Allegheny over the past semester follows the lecture.
“Love: A Refusal to Accept Whiteness,” is the most recent extension of George Yancy’s 25-year exploration of the continuing significance of race in America. Yancy argues that the American social order is a continuing reinforcement of a project of whiteness. If freedom can be wrested from this condition, whiteness will require its own dismantlement, its own undoing, in an apocalypse that results from the power of love. Yancy argues that whiteness is antithetical to a form of love that requires deep vulnerability. Accessing this deep vulnerability requires unmasking the ways in which whiteness seeks to avoid being revealed and being faced. Love is a necessary site of radical transformation, a refusal to hide behind walls of innocence.
Yancy’s visit is sponsored by the Bywater Fund for Social Justice Programming. Visit https://tinyurl.com/yancyallegheny2022 for further information.