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| Race After Sartre |
edited by Jonathan Judaken,
SUNY Press, 2008
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Examines
Jean-Paul Sartre’s antiracist politics and his contributions to critical
race theories, postcolonialism, and Africana existentialism.
Race after Sartre is the first book to systematically
interrogate Jean-Paul Sartre’s antiracist politics and his largely
unrecognized contributions to critical race theories, postcolonialism,
and Africana existentialism. The contributors offer an overview of
Sartre’s positions on racism as they changed throughout the course of
his life, providing a coherent account of the various ways in which he
understood how racism could be articulated and opposed.
They
interrogate his numerous and influential works on the topic, and his
insights are utilized to assess some of today’s racial quandaries,
including the November 2005 riots in France, Hurricane Katrina,
immigration, affirmative action, and reparations for slavery and
apartheid. The contributors also consider Sartre’s impact upon the
insurgent antiracist activists and writers who also walked the roads to
freedom that Sartre helped pave.
“Race after Sartre is a timely collection of essays that
will be of interest to scholars in postcolonial theory, philosophy, and
critical race studies.” — The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory
“…the essays here are far ranging. While a handful explicitly
argue for Sartre’s importance to matters of race, most simply assume it,
a fact that might constitute a powerful case in itself.” — Philosophy in Review
“Jean-Paul Sartre’s considerable contributions to comprehending
and challenging racism both in its colonial and postcolonial contexts
have often been overlooked. Race After Sartre corrects that
oversight once and for all, indicating the range, depth, and quality of
Sartre’s pivotal thinking on metropolitan racism, the colonial
condition, the relation of anti-Semitism to anti-Black racisms, the
emotional charge of racism, the challenge of racism to freedom and
freedom to the range of racisms. But it also signals the importance of
the Sartrean corpus to understanding the range of racisms we continue
to face today. Jonathan Judaken’s collection alters how Sartre will be
read, and adds considerably to our understanding of racial matters.” —
David Theo Goldberg, author of The Threat of Race: Reflections on Racial Neoliberalism
“This book will go a long way toward restoring Sartre to his
rightful place as one of the modern world’s greatest political
moralists. In it, Jonathan Judaken has assembled an impressive lineup
of authors, topics, and essays demonstrating the continuing vitality of
Sartre’s thought.” — Ronald Aronson, author of Living without God: New Directions for Atheists, Agnostics, Secularists, and the Undecided
“This book demonstrates anew Sartre’s ability to write cogently
and passionately against oppression and in support of progressive
politics.” — William L. McBride, author of Sartre’s Political Theory
“I like the way the book locates Sartre historically and
shows how he still speaks to us today with regard to the important
topic of race.” — Sonia Kruks, author of Retrieving Experience: Subjectivity and Recognition in Feminist Politics
Contributors
include Paige Arthur, Robert Bernasconi, Judith Butler, George
Ciccariello-Maher, Christian Delacampagne, Lewis Gordon, Jonathan
Judaken, Steve Martinot, Mabogo P. More, and Richard Watts.
Jonathan Judaken is Associate Professor of
Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History and Director of the
Marcus W. Orr Center for the Humanities at the University of Memphis, as
well as Co-President of the North American Sartre Society. He is the
author of Jean-Paul Sartre and the Jewish Question: Anti-antisemitism and the Politics of the French Intellectual.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Sartre on Race and Racism
1. Sartre on Racism: From Existential Phenomenology to Globalization and “the New Racism”
Jonathan Judaken
2.
Skin for Sale: Race and The Respectful Prostitute
Steve Martinot
3.
The Persistence of Colonialism: Sartre, the Left,
and Identity in Postcolonial France, 1970–1974
Paige Arthur
Part II: Sartre and Antiracist Theory
4.
Race: From Philosophy to History
Christian Delacampagne
5.
Sartre and Levinas: Philosophers against Racism and
Antisemitism
Robert Bernasconi
6.
European Intellectuals and Colonial Difference: Césaire and
Fanon beyond Sartre and Foucault
George Ciccariello-Maher
Part III: Sartre and Africana Existentialism
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Sartre and Black Existentialism
Lewis R. Gordon
8.
Sartre and South African Apartheid
Mabogo P. More
Part IV: Sartre and the Postcolonial Turn
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Difference/Indifference: Sartre, Glissant, and the
Race of Francophone Literature
Richard H. Watts
10.
Violence, Nonviolence: Sartre on Fanon
Judith Butler
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