UID:
almafu_9959677627002883
Format:
1 online resource (xvii, 222 pages)
ISBN:
9780822373230
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0-8223-6343-7
Series Statement:
A John Hope Franklin Center Book
Uniform Title:
Critique de la raison nègre.
Content:
In Critique of Black Reason eminent critic Achille Mbembe offers a capacious genealogy of the category of Blackness—from the Atlantic slave trade to the present—to critically reevaluate history, racism, and the future of humanity. Mbembe teases out the intellectual consequences of the reality that Europe is no longer the world's center of gravity while mapping the relations among colonialism, slavery, and contemporary financial and extractive capital. Tracing the conjunction of Blackness with the biological fiction of race, he theorizes Black reason as the collection of discourses and practices that equated Blackness with the nonhuman in order to uphold forms of oppression. Mbembe powerfully argues that this equation of Blackness with the nonhuman will serve as the template for all new forms of exclusion. With Critique of Black Reason, Mbembe offers nothing less than a map of the world as it has been constituted through colonialism and racial thinking while providing the first glimpses of a more just future.
Note:
"A John Hope Franklin Center Book."
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Originally published as "Critique de la raison nègre": Paris : La Découverte, [2013]
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The subject of race -- The well of fantasies -- Difference and self-determination -- The little secret -- Requiem for the slave -- The clinic of the subject.
Additional Edition:
Hardcover version ISBN 0-8223-6332-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780822363323
Additional Edition:
Paperback version ISBN 0-8223-7323-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780822363439
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780822373230
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