Achille Mbembe
- Author(s)
- Achille Mbembe
- Publication, year
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2017
- Scope
- 215 Pages, 23 cm.
- ISBN
- 9780822363439
In 'Critique of Black Reason' 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 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.
- Location
- Cabinet 29 - 6: Expanded Space ; Global Art ; Theorie
- Remarks
- Incl. Notes, Index Originally titled: Critique de la Raison Nègre (translated from the French by Laurent Dubois)
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