Whites, Jews, and Us
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"In Europe, prisons are brimming with black people and Arabs."--Whites, Jews, and Us (2016) by Houria Bouteldja, p. 131 "This book is a courageous and controversial act of revolutionary love. Houria Bouteldja’s bold and critical challenge to all of us—especially those who claim to be leftists or progressives—builds on the rich legacies of Malcolm X, Jean Genet, Aimé Césaire, Audre Lorde, James Baldwin, Frantz Fanon, and Chela Sandoval."--preface to the English edition of Whites, Jews, and Us (2016) by Cornel West "Okay, the cops are killing the men and the men are killing the women. I’m talking about rape. I’m talking about murder."--Audre Lorde cited in “Revolutionary Hope: A Conversation Between James Baldwin and Audre Lorde” by James Baldwin and Audre Lorde, Essence Magazine, 1984 "Male castration, a consequence of racism, is a humiliation for which men make us pay a steep price. In other words, the more hegemonic thought tells us that our men are barbaric, the more frustrated they become, and the more they will oppress us. The effects of white, racist patriarchy exacerbate gender relations in the indigenous milieu. This is why a decolonial feminism must have as its imperative to radically refuse the discourses and practices that stigmatize our brothers and that, in the same move, exonerate white patriarchy."--Whites, Jews, and Us (2016) by Houria Bouteldja, p. 97 "To the mirages of a civilization that birthed the nuclear man, in both senses of the word, where he is located and where he has been assigned—the place of the radical Other—and to he who claims to challenge God, the immigrant answers: Allahou akbar!."--Whites, Jews, and Us (2016) by Houria Bouteldja "... resisting the atomization of society and fanatical individualism."--Whites, Jews, and Us (2016) by Houria Bouteldja, p. 131 "But to have let the commemoration of the Nazi genocide become a “European civil religion” makes one fear for the worst, because one either has or does not have faith in religion."--Whites, Jews, and Us (2016) by Houria Bouteldja, p. 63 "No moral magisterium will make me endorse a law conceived by and for white feminists."--Whites, Jews, and Us (2016) by Houria Bouteldja, p. 73 "Our (civilizing?) mission will not be achieved if we fail to heed Genet’s call. To annihilate the white man at the center of our being, is to free him, to prepare for the “Great Replacement.” Human rather than white, Human rather than black. The dignity of Genet is at stake. Will we hear his plea?"--Whites, Jews, and Us (2016) by Houria Bouteldja, p. 123-24 |
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Whites, Jews, and Us: Toward a Politics of Revolutionary Love (French: Les Blancs, les Juifs et nous: Vers une politique de l'amour révolutionnaire) is a 2016 book by the French political activist Houria Bouteldja, first published in English in 2017 by semiotext(e).
Thomas Guénolé, a member of the left-wing party La France Insoumise, accused Bouteldja of racism and anti-Semitism. An open letter signed by Ilan Pappé, Adi Ophir, Sylvère Lotringer, Ronit Lentin, Sarah Schulman, Ariella Azoulay and 14 others described Guénolé's accusations as "outrageous" and argued that he failed to understand either racism or anti-Semitism or to acknowledge Bouteldja's conception of "revolutionary love".
In a letter signed by Christine Delphy, Annie Ernaux, Catherine Samary, Isabelle Stengers and 16 others, published in Le Monde in June 2017, the authors accused Bouteldja's critics of character assassination and of having failed to read Whites, Jews, and Us beyond the title "or at most a few misrepresented citations."
The anthropologist Paul Silverstein has argued that Bouteldja's argument:
- "I cannot do justice to the intellectual sweep or emotive verve of Bouteldja’s essay, but it boils down to a simple proposition, an offer which whites (les Blancs) cannot refuse if they wish to retain some level of bourgeois privilege and stave off the inevitable decolonial revolution: You give us love, we'll give you peace. Such a love is not reciprocal; it is one-sided. It requires that whites fully accept French men and women of colour and their struggles for freedom and equality as part and parcel of the (trans)national, decolonized "greater We" (le grand Nous). Such a love, she specifies, is not about the "heart" as a sentimental or spiritual figure, Islamic or otherwise. It is a love of political transformation."--Postcolonial France, Race, Islam, and the Future of the Republic (2018) by Paul A. Silverstein
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Table of contents
Preface by Cornel West
Shoot Sartre!
You, White People
3. This refers to Malek Bennabi’s concept of “colonizability.” See Bennabi, Islam in History and Society, trans. Asma Rashid (Islamabad, Pakistan: Islamic Research Institute, International Islamic University, 1988), originally published as Vocation de l’Islam (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1954).
- Angel of kindness, have you tasted hate?
- With hands clenched in the dark, and tears of gall,
- When Vengeance beats her hellish battle-call,
- And makes herself the captain of our fate,
- Angel of kindness, have you tasted hate?
- Reversibility by Baudelaire
You, the Jews
We, Indigenous Women
We, Indigenous people
Allahou akbar!
- "Why should we adopt the priorities and the hierarchies of the West? Are your 20th century successes so brilliant? World War Two, genocides, the destruction of the environment, what’s next? Here are the effects of a “modern” civilization which has privileged the individual over metaphysics. History over eternity, progress over tradition, manly values over sensitivity."--Ashis Nandy quoted in Guy Sorman, Les Vrais Penseurs de notre temps (Paris: Fayard, 1989).
- "Many many decades later, in the aftermath of that marvel of modern technology called the Second World War and perhaps that modern encounter of cultures called Vietnam, it has become obvious that the drive for mastery over men is not merely a byproduct of a faulty political economy but also of a world view which believes in the absolute superiority of the human over the nonhuman and the subhuman, the masculine over the feminine, the adult over the child, the historical over the ahistorical, and the modern or progressive over the traditional or the savage. It has become more and more apparent that genocides, ecodisasters and ethnocides are but the underside of corrupt sciences and psychopathic technologies wedded to new secular hierarchies, which have reduced major civilizations to the status of a set of empty rituals. The ancient forces of human greed and violence, one recognizes, have merely found a new legitimacy in anthropocentric doctrines of secular salvation, in the ideologies of progress, normality and hypermasculinity, and in theories of cumulative growth of science and technology.". --Ashis Nandy, preface to The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self under Colonialism (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1983), ix–x.
See also
- Gordon Braxton, “This Sexual Assault Victim Didn’t Report Her Rape Because She Wanted to Protect Me,” Huffington Post, June 10, 2014, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gordon-braxton/this-sexual-assault-victi_b_5125310.html?comm_ref=false&src=sp&utm_hp_ref=fb.
- White people
- Jews
- People of colour
