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The Shadow that Lingers - What Slavery Teaches Us about Freedom (Hardcover)
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The Shadow that Lingers - What Slavery Teaches Us about Freedom (Hardcover)
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Allan D. Cooper demonstrates how the resistance to slavery served
to unveil the nature of freedom that made possible the abolition
movement and anti-colonial struggles. The corpus of human rights
law that has evolved over the past two centuries is constructed
around the negation of slavery. This book analyzes how slavery
mutated into racial identification that governments enforce against
their own population to advance more efficient methods of
discipline and control. The Shadow that Lingers reveals how race is
used to traumatize human beings by embodying inferiority and
powerlessness, even for whites that claim privilege under
racialized regimes. As an ideology of power, race becomes
contextualized to fit local cultures, resulting in contradictory
understandings of race from one culture to another. This book
focuses attention on how racial hybridity among mixed-race
communities poses challenges for racial purists, and how such
communities endeavor to construct racial identities that often
differentiate themselves from being black. The book concludes with
an analysis of how the pursuit of freedom inevitably requires the
reification of a non-racial identity.
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