Description: 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.
Review Quotes: "A lucid, thoughtful and sometimes poetic work, with phrases you want to underline on every page. Mbembe is a voice that needs to be heard, in the current discussion about racism and immigration in Europe."--Peter Vermaas "NRC Handelsblad"