Critique Of Black Reason

by Achille Mbembe
language: english
Publisher: DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS, March of 2017 ‧
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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.

Critique Of Black Reason

by Achille Mbembe

Property Description
ISBN: 9780822363323
Publisher: DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: March of 2017
Language: English
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Format: Book
Collection: John Hope Franklin Center Book
Categories: Books in English > History > General History
Books in English > Social Sciences and Humanities > Philosophy
Books in English > Others
EAN: 9780822363323

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Achille Mbembe

Referência na área dos estudos pós-coloniais, Achille Mbembe (n. 1957) é professor de História e de Ciência Política na Universidade de Witwatersrand, em Joanesburgo, e leciona na Universidade Duke, nos EUA. Um dos pensadores contemporâneos mais prolíficos e ativos, tem uma extensa obra publicada sobre história e política africanas, na qual explora os temas do poder e da violência. É autor, entre outros ensaios, de De la postcolonie — Essai sur l’imagination politique dans l’Afrique contemporaine (2000), Sortir de la grande nuit — Essai sur l’Afrique décolonisée (2010), Crítica da Razão Negra (Antígona, 2014) e Políticas da Inimizade (Antígona, 2017).

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