Critical Perspectives on African Genocide - Memory, Silence, and Anti-Black Political Violence

This text explores critical perspectives on the intersections between colonialism, political violence, and environmentalism to deepen our understanding of genocide and genocidal violence.

List of contents

Editor's Introduction

Ch. 1: Remembering for Better Healing: A Survivor's Account of the 1972 Burundi Genocide
Jeanine Ntihirageza
Ch. 2: Burundi 1972: Remembering a Forgotten Genocide
René Lemarchand
Ch. 3: Anti-Imperialist Rhetoric and Patterns of Genocide Denial in Zimbabwe
Chielozona Eze
Ch. 4: American Slavery, The New Jim Crow, and Genocide
Lissa Skitolsky
Ch. 5: The 'Post-Conflict State' in Africa: Challenging the Continued Normalization of Genocidal Violence
Patricia Daley
Ch. 6: Rwandan Commemoration Discourse and Post-Genocidal Violence
Alfred Frankowski
Ch. 7: Environmental Racism as Genocide: A Case Study of Shell Bluff, Georgia
Milanika S. Turner

List of Contributors
Index

About the author

Alfred Frankowski is associate professor of philosophy and director of graduate studies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.Jeanine Ntihirageza is professor and director, Center for Genocide and Human Rights and Research in Africa and the Diaspora at Northeastern Illinois University.Chielozona Eze is the Bernard J. Brommel Distinguished Research Professor of African and African American Literature and Cultural Studies, Northeastern Illinois University and Extraordinary Professor, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

Summary

This text explores critical perspectives on the intersections between colonialism, political violence, and environmentalism to deepen our understanding of genocide and genocidal violence.

Product details

• Authors: Alfred Ntihirageza Frankowski
• Assisted by: Chielozona Eze (Editor), Eze Chielozona (Editor), Alfred Frankowski (Editor), Frankowski Alfred (Editor), Jeanine Ntihirageza (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781538147030
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-4703-0
• No. of pages: 138
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; History of Ideas, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Criticism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, Politics and government, War Crimes, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of philosophy, philosophical traditions, Genocide & ethnic cleansing, Genocide and ethnic cleansing