Race Otherwise

Forging A New Humanism For South Africa

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Cultural Studies, Minority Studies, Sociology
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Author: Zimitri Erasmus ISBN: 9781776141852
Publisher: Wits University Press Publication: August 30, 2017
Imprint: Wits University Press Language: English
Author: Zimitri Erasmus
ISBN: 9781776141852
Publisher: Wits University Press
Publication: August 30, 2017
Imprint: Wits University Press
Language: English

In Race Otherwise: Forging a New Humanism for South Africa Zimitri Erasmus questions the notion that one can know ?race? with one?s eyes, or through racial categories and or genetic ancestry tests. She moves between the intimate probing of racial identities as we experience them individually, and analysis of the global historical forces that have created these identities and woven them into our thinking about what it means to be ?human?. Starting from her own family?s journeys through regions of the world and ascribed racial identities, she develops her argument about how it is possible to recognise the pervasiveness of race thinking without submitting to its power. Drawing on the theoretical work of Frantz Fanon, Sylvia Wynter and others, Erasmus argues for a new way of ?coming to know otherwise?, of seeing the boundaries between racial identities as thresholds to be crossed, through politically charged acts of imagination and love.

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In Race Otherwise: Forging a New Humanism for South Africa Zimitri Erasmus questions the notion that one can know ?race? with one?s eyes, or through racial categories and or genetic ancestry tests. She moves between the intimate probing of racial identities as we experience them individually, and analysis of the global historical forces that have created these identities and woven them into our thinking about what it means to be ?human?. Starting from her own family?s journeys through regions of the world and ascribed racial identities, she develops her argument about how it is possible to recognise the pervasiveness of race thinking without submitting to its power. Drawing on the theoretical work of Frantz Fanon, Sylvia Wynter and others, Erasmus argues for a new way of ?coming to know otherwise?, of seeing the boundaries between racial identities as thresholds to be crossed, through politically charged acts of imagination and love.

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