{"product_id":"to-exist-as-a-problem-by-zahi-zalloua-9781350559028","title":"To Exist as a Problem","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn the first pages of \u003cem\u003eThe Souls of Black Folk\u003c\/em\u003e, W. E. B. Du Bois meditates on the question, “How does it feel to be a problem?”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this profound response to that question, Zahi Zalloua endeavours to think through the shared Black and Palestinian experience of being racialized as a problem. Zalloua argues that today’s anti-Blackness is not a lingering feature of a regrettable past that only occasionally manifests its ugly face. Rather, anti-Blackness permeates white civil society. Black being stands for the anti-human; its being is barred and degraded. And while Black being denotes criminality, Palestinian being denotes terrorism – a problematic being produced by Orientalism and used to legitimize oppression. Both the Black and Palestinian are framed as existential threats that undermine the very structures of white and Zionist dominance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTo Exist as a Problem\u003c\/em\u003e provides a searing critique of such assumptions, arguing that Blacks and Palestinians \u003cem\u003edo\u003c\/em\u003e exist as a problem, but a different problem than the one dictated by the petrifying white and settler gaze. They exist as a threat because the mechanisms of structural racism make them so. In order for racism to thrive, they must be othered in the profoundest sense. In asking how a politics can be constructed in the face of this hegemony, Zalloua constructs a model of solidarity that places Black lives and Palestinian liberation at the forefront of the anti-racist struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47548212707564,"sku":"9781350559028","price":43.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/e0585e9c998ca7db8ebbc7798632d4f3.jpg?v=1776907946","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/to-exist-as-a-problem-by-zahi-zalloua-9781350559028","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}