Critique of Black Reason /

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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 uphol...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mbembe, Achille, 1957- (Author)
Other Authors: Dubois, Laurent, 1971- (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
White people > Race identity.
Slavery > Moral and ethical aspects.
Racism.
Race > Social aspects.
Race > Philosophy.
Difference (Philosophy)
Black people > Race identity.
Race awareness > Moral and ethical aspects.
Whites > Race identity.
Blacks > Race identity.
PHILOSOPHY > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
15.50 general world history; history of great parts of the world, peoples, civilizations: general.
Difference (Philosophie)
Racisme.
Conscience de race > Aspect moral.
Race > Aspect social.
Race > Philosophie.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Item Description:"A John Hope Franklin Center Book."
Physical Description:1 online resource (233 pages).
ISBN:9780822373230

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