Dignity or death : ethics and politics of race / Norman Ajari ; translated by Matthew B. Smith.
| Author/creator |
Ajari, Norman author. |
| Other author/creator | Smith, Matthew B., translator. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, UK : Polity Press, [2023] |
| Copyright Notice | ̐u2023 |
| Description | xi, 236 pages ; 23 cm |
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| Uniform title | Dignit̐ue ou la mort. English |
| Contents | Introduction -- Part One : Dignity Re-embodied -- Chapter One : Decolonizing Moral Philosophy -- Chapter 2 : Indignity -- Chapter 3 : Our Dignity is Older than Us -- Part Two : Caliban the Political Theologian -- Chapter 4 : The Universal by Accident -- Chapter 5 : A Theology of Black Dignity in North America -- Chapter 6 : Ubuntu : Philosophy, Religion, and Community in Black Africa -- Part Three : Forms-of-death in the European Necropolis -- Chapter 7 : Recognition and Dignity in the Era of Global Apartheid -- Conclusion : Black Political Ontology and Black Dignity |
| Abstract | This book sets out to understand the ethical dimension of Black lives and deaths in the modern period. Recent eventśfrom the brutal murder of George Floyd to the pervasive violence meted out daily on the streets of our citieśhave demonstrated all too clearly the fundamental trait that shapes our contemporary moment: the Black condition is defined by indignity. Ajari takes dignity as his starting point because dignity is what white people try to abolish in their violence toward Black people, and it is what they deprive themselves of in exerting this violence. Dignity is also what Black people collectively affirm when they rise up against white domination. When a young Black man or womańs dignity is taken from them as the result of assault, rape, or assassination at the hands of the state, the roots of a long history of struggle, conquest, and affirmation of African humanity are exposed and shaken. Above all, dignity is the ability of the oppressed, trapped between life and death, to remain standing. Dignity or Death offers an uncompromising critical analysis of the European philosophical tradition in order to recover the misunderstood history of radical thought in Black worlds. Slave uprisings, Negritude, radical Christian traditions in North America and South Africa, and political ontology are all steps on a long and troubled path of liberation. -- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Language | Translated from the French. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9781509548675 |
| LCCN | 2022936290 |
| ISBN | 9781509548668 |
| ISBN | 9781509548651 hardback |
| ISBN | 1509548653 hardback |
| ISBN | 1509548661 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ePub ebook) |
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