Bookshelf

Alumni and faculty members who would like to have their books considered for this listing should contact Stacey Himmelberger, editor of Hamilton magazine. This list, which dates back to 2018, is updated periodically with books appearing alphabetically on the date of entry.

Open Casket: Philosophical Meditations on the Lynching of Emmett Till by A. Todd Franklin, the Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Africana Studies (co-editor).

December 5, 2025

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(Bloomsbury, 2025).

Marking 70 years since the murder of Emmett Till, this volume co-edited with George Yancy, the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy at Emory University, is a collection of essays by a wide range of Black scholars who take up Till’s casket as a focal point for reflection on anti-Black racism, past and present, in hopes of rallying people against it as we turn toward the future.