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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| Type de support: | Électronique Livre |
| Langue: | Anglais |
| Service de livraison Subito: | Commander maintenant. |
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Durham
Duke University Press
2017
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| Dans: | Année: 2017 |
| Recensions: | [Rezension von: Mbembe, Achille, 1957-, Critique of Black reason] (2018) (Tshaka, R. S.)
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| Sujets non-standardisés: | 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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| Résumé: | 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 |
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| Description: | "A John Hope Franklin Center Book Includes bibliographical references and index Translated from the French |