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 1957- (Author)
Contributors: Dubois, Laurent 1971- (Translator)
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.)
Further subjects:B Race Social aspects
B Difference (Philosophy)
B Whites Race identity
B Slavery Moral and ethical aspects
B Race Philosophy
B Blacks Race identity
B Race awareness Moral and ethical aspects
B Racism
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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
Introduction : the becoming Black of the world -- The subject of race -- The well of fantasies -- Difference and self-determination -- The little secret -- Requiem for the slave -- The clinic of the subject -- Epilogue : there is only one world
Item Description:"A John Hope Franklin Center Book
Includes bibliographical references and index
Translated from the French