Metaracial: Hegel, Antiblackness, and Political Identity

A formidable critical project on the limits of antiracist philosophy.

Exploring anxieties raised by Atlantic slavery in radical enlightenment literature concerned about political unfreedom in Europe, Metaracial argues that Hegel's philosophy assuages these anxieties for the left. Interpreting Hegel beside Rousseau, Kant, Mary Shelley, and Marx, Terada traces Hegel's transposition of racial hierarchy into a hierarchy of stances toward reality. By doing so, she argues, Hegel is simultaneously antiracist and antiblack. In dialogue with Black Studies, psychoanalysis, and critical theory, Metaracial offers a genealogy of the limits of antiracism.

Author: Rei Terada
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 05/12/2023
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d
ISBN13: 9780226823713
ISBN10: 0226823717
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | African American & Black Studies
- Philosophy | Movements | Phenomenology
- Philosophy | History & Surveys | Modern