Critical Perspectives on African Genocide: Memory, Silence, and Anti-Black Political Violence - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1538150336 ISBN 13: 9781538150337

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2023

Synopsis

Genocide has become a part of the contemporary global expression of political violence. After all, every continent has had its genocide, but genocide in Africa and the African diaspora is distinctly different from those in Europe or the West. This text approaches genocide from within the context of Africa and the African diaspora to examine political and philosophical after-effects of global colonialism.

As genocidal state violence has become prominent through colonialism, its appearance in Europe and the West have developed sharply against how it appears in colonized spaces within the African diaspora. This text argues that such a difference in orientation is needed to develop new concepts, critical approaches, and perspectives on the intersections between colonialism, political violence, and anti-black politics as a way of critically understanding global genocide and the presence of continual genocidal violence.

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About the Author

Alfred Frankowski is associate professor of philosophy and director of graduate studies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

Jeanine Ntihirageza is professor and director, Center for Genocide and Human Rights and Research in Africa and the Diaspora at Northeastern Illinois University.

Chielozona Eze is the Bernard J. Brommel Distinguished Research Professor of African and African American Literature and Cultural Studies, Northeastern Illinois University and Extraordinary Professor, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1538150336
• ISBN 13: 9781538150337
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 138
• Editor: Frankowski Alfred