The Long Emancipation - Moving toward Black Freedom (Hardcover)

In The Long Emancipation Rinaldo Walcott posits that Black people globally live in the time of emancipation and that emancipation is definitely not freedom. Taking examples from across the globe, he argues that wherever Black people have been emancipated from slavery and colonization, a potential freedom has been thwarted. Walcott names this condition the long emancipation-the ongoing interdiction of potential Black freedom and the continuation of the juridical and legislative status of Black nonbeing. Stating that Black people have yet to experience freedom, Walcott shows that being Black in the world is to exist in the time of emancipation in which Black people must constantly fashion alternate conceptions of freedom and reality through expressive culture. Given that Black unfreedom lies at the center of the making of the modern world, the attainment of freedom for Black people, Walcott contends, will transform the human experience worldwide. With The Long Emancipation, Walcott offers a new humanism that begins by acknowledging that present conceptions of what it means to be human do not currently include Black people.

General

Imprint:	Duke University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2021
First published:	2021
Authors:	Rinaldo Walcott
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	144
ISBN-13:	978-1-4780-1191-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General Books > Philosophy > General
LSN:	1-4780-1191-2
Barcode:	9781478011910

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