African Migrants, European Borders, and the Problem with Humanitarianism - (Challenging Migration Studies) by P Khalil Saucier & Tryon P Woods
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Highlights
- This book draws on the Black radical tradition to deconstruct modern society's resident contradictions and its affirming sociopathology that constrain critical readings of power, aesthetics, and Black movement in the Mediterranean.
- About the Author: P. Khalil Saucier is professor of critical Black studies at Bucknell University.
- 306 Pages
- Social Science, Emigration & Immigration
- Series Name: Challenging Migration Studies
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This book draws on the Black radical tradition to deconstruct modern society's resident contradictions and its affirming sociopathology that constrain critical readings of power, aesthetics, and Black movement in the Mediterranean.Book Synopsis
This book draws on the Black radical tradition to deconstruct modern society's resident contradictions and its affirming sociopathology that constrain critical readings of power, aesthetics, and Black movement in the Mediterranean.
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Saucier and Woods' present the reader with a thoroughly rendered, but radically simple argument, which is that the foundations of our present-day reality are still that of a slaveholding culture; and that the antiblack racism that anchors this culture has only become more deeply engrained by humanitarian ideologies that cannot face up to the antiblack violence that has made the modern world what it is. African Migrants, European Borders is an uncompromising intervention. No matter what you make of it, you will not come away unaffected.
The decadence of contemporary critical thought is clear in the use of the dead drowning abject black body as material for imaginaries of an antiracist, humanitarian and abolitionist Europe. Saucier and Woods analyze how radical thought is so often sucked into a liberal antiracism that reinforces colonial hierarchies rather than questions them. Written with passion and acuity, this important book opens up a new avenue for thought in migration and border studies and beyond. Required reading.
This is an important contribution to Black Studies and contemporary thinking on migration. The authors develop an incisive account of an antiblack world, weaving together a vital and compelling critique of antiracist humanitarianism. In rejecting new formulations of Black space like the Black Mediterranean, they forge a more radical approach to migration, illuminating the central role of race in the creation of the modern world.
This outstanding book gave me the possibility of glimpsing the ethical, psychoanalytic and political implications of global migration.
About the Author
P. Khalil Saucier is professor of critical Black studies at Bucknell University.
Tryon P. Woods is professor of crime & justice studies at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth and special lecturer in Black studies at Providence College.
