Achille Mbembe

Critique of Black Reason

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Produktbeschreibung

Eminent critic Achille Mbembe reevaluates history and racism, offering a capacious genealogy of the category of Blacknessâ from the Atlantic slave trade to the presentâ 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.

Produktdetails

• A John Hope Franklin Center Book
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9780822363439
• ISBN-10: 0822363437
• Artikelnr.: 45332388

Autorenporträt

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 Romance Studies and History and Director of the Forum for Scholars and Publics at Duke University.

Inhaltsangabe

Translator's Introduction  ix
Acknowledgments  xvii
Introduction. The Becoming Black of the World  1
1. The Subject of Race  10
2. The Well of Fantasies  38
3. Difference and Self-Determination  78
4. The Little Secret  103
5. Requiem for the Slave  129
6. The Clinic of the Subject  131
Epilogue. There Is Only One World  179
Notes  185
Index 209