Metaracial: Hegel, Antiblackness, and Political Identity

by Rei Terada and Professor Rei Terada

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226823695
• ISBN13: 9780226823690
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"