Dignity or Death: Ethics and Politics of Race (Ajari Norman)(Paperback)

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 contemporary moment: the Black condition is defined by indignity. Ajari takes dignity as his starting point because dignity is what white people try to abolish in their violence towards Black people, and it is what they deprive themselves of in exerting this violence. Dignity is also what Black people collectively affirm when they rise up against white domination. When a young Black man or woman's dignity is taken from them as the result of assault, rape or assassination at the hands of the state, the roots of a long history of struggle, conquest and affirmation of African
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