Rednecks and Barbarians

Uniting the White and Racialized Working Class

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

'Bouteldja throws all our certainties into the air, and with brilliant precision, reassembles them' - Alana LentinIn Europe and North America, the white working class is increasingly tempted by right-wing political parties. Fascistic candidates and ideas seem to reap the fruits of social unrest everywhere. With her usual thought-provoking and unyielding insights, Houria Bouteldja shows how the history of the left explains this conundrum and how we can overcome it.Drawing from Black radical and decolonial Marxism, she shows that by privileging white constituencies, unions and left parties laid the foundations for a racial contract that binds workers and the poor to the state.However, there may still be a way out of this trap. Uniting ‘rednecks’ (the white working class) and ‘barbarians’ (the racially oppressed), requires a project of popular sovereignty, where national identity is transformed through revolutionary love. Looking to the future, Bouteldja imagines antiracism as a redemptive struggle aimed not only at rehabilitating marginalized communities but also at redefining white dignity.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-11-20
Mått:142 x 217 x 15 mm
Vikt:213 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:192
Förlag:Pluto Press
ISBN:9780745349558
Översättare:Rachel Valinksy, Rachel Valinsky

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Houria Bouteldja is a French-Algerian political activist and writer. She served as spokesperson for the Party of the Indigenous of the Republic until 2020. She is the author of Whites, Jews and Us: Towards a Politics of Revolutionary Love. The author lives in Paris, France.Rachel Valinsky is a writer, translator, and editor living in New York and Paris. Previously, she translated Houria Boutledja's Whites, Jews, and Us: Toward a Politics of Revolutionary Love for Semiotext(e). She is the Artistic Director at Wendy's Subway and the Director of Publications at the Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA) in New York.

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'This book is for anyone who wants to learn more about French decolonial theory and to read one of the most interesting antiracist decolonial activists in France today, Houria Bouteldja. Known for her incisive analysis of moral antiracism in France, Bouteldja offers here a strong argument for the unity between “rednecks” and “barbarians”. This is essential to fight the foundations of the total racial state and its racial pact which maintains the division between these two groups.'

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionPART I: The Integral Racial State, or Pessimism of the IntellectThe Racial StateRace and Political SocietyRace and Civil SocietyBirthing the White Political FieldPART II: Revolutionary Love, or Optimism of the WillDo Whites Love Children?Dirty HandsChoosing Our AncestorsAcknowledgementsTranslators AcknowledgementsIndex