Critique of the Negro Mind

“If in the past the tragedy of the individual was to be exploited by capital, today the tragedy for the multitude is to be no longer exploitable, to be an object of exile in the abandoned 'redundant humanity' that capital no longer needs. The systemic dangers to which only black slaves were exposed in the early days of capitalism, if not now the norm for all subhumans, constitute their share. This tendency to universalize the condition of being black goes hand in hand with the emergence of brand new imperial practices. We call this new wearability, this meltability, their institutionalization as the new rule of existence and their spread all over the world, the black future of the world.” Among all people, the black has become the type of human whose body has been turned into a commodity. Black and race have had the same meaning in the imagination of Western societies for five centuries. These two concepts formed the basis on which modern day knowledge and management practices derived from it rose. The word nigger, beyond humiliating and excluding, has become an expression of not being considered within the human species. Achille Mbembe, one of today's leading post-colonial thinkers, sheds light on the rising new forms of racism by examining the position of being nigger and the social designs resulting from it. While the wars of occupation and plunder caused by neoliberal domination and security policies create a new racism on a world scale, Critique of the Black Mind shows the reproduction of the Negro in modern world history under different forms. With a taboo-breaking approach, it invites us to think about one of the leading questions of today's world: How should we think about difference and life, similar and dissimilar?

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Number of Pages: 272

Size: 13 x 19.5

First Print Year: 2019

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

Language Turkish