Criticism of Negro Reason
De all humans, the Negro is the only one whose flesh was made merchandise. Moreover, the Negro and the race have never been but one in the imagination of European societies. Since the 18th century, they have together constituted the unacknowledged and often denied basement from which the modern knowledge project has unfolded. Will the relegation of Europe to the rank of a simple province of the world sign the extinction of racism, with the dissolution of one of its major signifiers, the Negro?
Or, on the contrary, once this historical figure has been dissolved, will we all become the Negroes of the new racism produced on a planetary scale by neoliberal and security policies, the new wars of occupation and predation, and zoning practices?
In this scholarly and iconoclastic essay, Achille Mbembe engages in an essential critical reflection to answer the main question about the world of our time: how think the difference and the life, the similar and the saidmbable ?
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Release Date | 2015-10-29T00:00:01Z |
Language | Français |
Number Of Pages | 272 |
Publication Date | 2015-10-29T00:00:01Z |