One might say that the womb of death-the Middle Passage, slavery,
and colonization-gave birth to Black populations. Taking this
observation as her point of departure, Nathalie Etoke examines
Black existence today in her riveting new book, Shades of Black. In
a white supremacist world, Black bodies hold a specific position,
invested with a range of meaning that maintains them in a fixed
role, with a script they did not write. The white world has
invented and defined the Black person according to its own
interests, endowing her with a bereaved humanity. The Black person
is confronted with an essential paradox-exist as Black or as a
human being? Does the Black person exist for herself or for the
other? In the white world, is the Black race the embodiment of a
sub-humanity? Situated at the crossroads of three
countries-Cameroon, France, and, now, the United States-Nathalie
Etoke is uniquely positioned for this polyphonic reflection on
race. She examines what happens when race obliterates historical,
social, cultural, and political differences among populations of
African descent from different parts of the world. Focusing on
recent and ongoing topics in the United States, including the
murder of George Floyd, police brutality, the complex symbolism of
Barack Obama and Kamala Harris, Etoke explores the relations of
violence, oppression, dispossession, and inequalities that have
brought us here, face to face with these existential questions: Are
you breathing? Are we breathing?
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