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Critique of Black Reason

by Achille Mbembe

  • Paperback
  • 240 pages
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • 15.2 x 22.8 x 1.4 cm

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For readers interested in race and colonial history

Challenges the understanding of Blackness and oppression

You will gain insights into the future of humanity and justice

Critique of Black Reason by Achille Mbembe explores the complex history and implications of Blackness in our world today.

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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 oppression. Mbembe powerfully argues that this equation of Blackness with the nonhuman will serve as the template for all new forms of exclusion. With Critique of Black Reason, 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.
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  • Title

    Critique of Black Reason

  • Author

    Achille Mbembe

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Duke University Press

  • Published

    March 2017

  • Weight

    318g

  • Page Count

    240

  • Dimensions

    15.2 x 22.8 x 1.4 cm

  • ISBN

    9780822363439

  • ISBN-10

    0822363437

  • Eden Code

    4732873

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