Critique of Black reason

Eminent critic Achille Mbembe reevaluates history and racism, offering a capacious genealogy of the category of Blackness-from the Atlantic slave trade to the present-to show how the conjoining of the biological fiction of race with definitions of Blackness have been and continue to be used to uphol...

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Main Author: Mbembe, Achille (Author)
Contributors: Dubois, Laurent (Other)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Durham Duke University Press 2017
In:Year: 2017
Reviews:[Rezension von: Mbembe, Achille, 1957-, Critique of Black reason] (2018) (Tshaka, R. S.)
Series/Journal:a John Hope Franklin Center Book
A John Hope Franklin Center Book Ser
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Blacks / Racism / Disparity / Neo-liberalism
B Capitalism / Slavery / Colonialism / Racism / Difference / Postcolonialism / Political philosophy
Further subjects:B Race Social aspects
B Whites Race identity
B Difference (Philosophy)
B Slavery Moral and ethical aspects
B Blacks Race identity
B Race Philosophy
B Race awareness - Moral and ethical aspects
B Electronic books
B Race awareness Moral and ethical aspects
B Racism
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
Parallel Edition:Non-electronic
Print version: Mbembe, Achille: Critique of Black Reason. - Durham : Duke University Press,c2017. - 9780822363323
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Summary:Eminent critic Achille Mbembe reevaluates history and racism, offering a capacious genealogy of the category of Blackness-from the Atlantic slave trade to the present-to show how the conjoining of the biological fiction of race with definitions of Blackness have been and continue to be used to uphold oppression
ISBN:0822373238