Bibliograph

Critique of Black reason, Achille Mbembe ; translated by Laurent Dubois

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Critique of Black reason, Achille Mbembe ; translated by Laurent Dubois

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Critique of Black reason

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

953325412

Responsibility statement

Achille Mbembe ; translated by Laurent Dubois

Series statement

John Hope Franklin Center Book

Summary

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. 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.--Publisher description

Table Of Contents

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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