Dignity or death : ethics and politics of race /

This book sets out to understand the ethical dimension of Black lives and deaths in the modern period. Recent events, from the brutal murder of George Floyd to the pervasive violence meted out daily on the streets of our cities, have demonstrated all too clearly the fundamental trait that shapes our...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ajari, Norman (Author)
Other Authors:	Smith, Matthew B. (Translator)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Language Notes:	Translated from the French.
Published:	Cambridge, UK ; Hoboken, New Jersey : Polity Press, [2023].
Subjects:	Racism. Dignity. Black people > Violence against. Black people > Political activity.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Part One : Dignity Re-embodied
Chapter One : Decolonizing Moral Philosophy
Chapter 2 : Indignity
Chapter 3 : Our Dignity is Older than Us
Part Two : Caliban the Political Theologian
Chapter 4 : The Universal by Accident
Chapter 5 : A Theology of Black Dignity in North America
Chapter 6 : Ubuntu : Philosophy, Religion, and Community in Black Africa
Part Three : Forms-of-death in the European Necropolis
Chapter 7 : Recognition and Dignity in the Era of Global Apartheid
Conclusion : Black Political Ontology and Black Dignity