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Critique of Black Reason
Achille Mbembe
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Description for Critique of Black Reason
Paperback. 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. Translator(s): Dubois, Laurent. Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HP; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 364.
In Critique of Black Reason 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 ... Read more
In Critique of Black Reason 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
A John Hope Franklin Center Book
Condition
New
Weight
364g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822363439
SKU
V9780822363439
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About Achille Mbembe
Achille Mbembe is Research Professor in History and Politics at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He is coeditor of Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis, also published by Duke University Press, and the author of On the Postcolony as well as several books in French. Laurent Dubois is Marcello Lotti Professor of ... Read more
Reviews for Critique of Black Reason
With characteristic elocution Achille Mbembe in Critique of Black Reason attends to the challenge . . . to write Africa/Blackness in all its manifestations.
Lwazi Lushaba and Ziyana Lategan
South African Historical Journal
The book is a must for neoliberal and postmodern theory enthusiasts looking for insights on social constructs and perceptions of race relations. ... Read more
Lwazi Lushaba and Ziyana Lategan
South African Historical Journal
The book is a must for neoliberal and postmodern theory enthusiasts looking for insights on social constructs and perceptions of race relations. ... Read more