Metaracial

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Hegel, Antiblackness, and Political Identity

By Professor Rei Terada

Summary

Metaracial by Professor Rei Terada explores the deep roots of anti-Blackness within contemporary anti-racist politics by examining the "metaracial logic" shaped by Hegelian distinctions between relation and nonrelation. Terada critically unpacks how Enlightenment philosophy, through figures like Kant and Hegel, underpins a paradoxical political framework that is both anti-racist and anti-Black. She argues that uncovering these philosophical legacies, especially the notion of "relation," is essential to addressing persistent anti-Blackness today.
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Ideal for readers interested in advanced race theory, philosophy, and critical race studies, especially those engaged with Enlightenment thought and Black subjectivity within contemporary political discourse.

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A dazzling critical project on the core of anti-Blackness in contemporary society.

In this dazzling critical project, Rei Terada brings the theoretical and practical together as she takes aim at the "metaracial logic" that operates within the politics of today’s radical left. She insists that this logic, rooted in a distinction between relation and nonrelation in Hegelian philosophy, creates political projects that are, paradoxically, both anti-racist and anti-Black.

Terada begins by considering how liberal strands of Enlightenment philosophy use the notion of "relation" to express a kind of racism that fits into progressive political identity. Moving through Kant, Hegel, and others, Terada shows how this line of thought terminates in the political superiority of the metaracial, a problematic legacy we live with today.

For Terada, only by uncovering the notion of "relation" across radical enlightenment philosophy can we address the persistence of anti-Blackness.

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Éttiene Balibar praises Metaracial as a demanding yet fascinating deconstruction of the philosophical sources behind antiblack antiracism, clarifying a key paradox in political radicalism. Calvin Warren highlights Terada's invigorating and insightful readings bridging Black thought with continental philosophy, marking the book as a substantial contribution to contemporary race philosophy and Black subjectivity debates.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780226823713

Publisher: The University of Chicago Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 12 May 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: University of Chicago Press

Illustration: 1 line drawings

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 313g

Pages: 224

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction Professor Rei Terada

About the Author

Rei Terada is professor of comparative literature at the University of California-Irvine. She is the author of Feeling in Theory: Emotion after the "Death of the Subject and Looking Away: Dissatisfaction and Phenomenality, Kant to Adorno.