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03165aam a2200433 i 4500 001 FD754E62CD9E11EB996D3DCB37ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210615010017 008 210209t20212021enk b 000 0 eng d 020 $a 0857428535 020 $a 9780857428530 035 $a (OCoLC)1242740544 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d OCLCO $d BDX $d DPL $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d MNG $d TKN $d UAB $d IOU $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h fre 043 $a n-us--- $a n-us--- 082 04 $a 305.896 $2 23 100 1 $a EtokeÌ, Nathalie, $e author. 240 10 $a Nuances du noir. $l English 245 10 $a Shades of black / $c Nathalie Etoke ; translated by Gila Walker. 264 1 $a London : $b Seagull Books, $c 2021. 300 $a 134 pages ; $c 24 cm. 500 $a Originally written in French as Nuances du noir. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 505 0 $a Prologue: Living in black and white -- To be situated -- Shades of black: ADOS versus black non-descendants of American slavery -- Decolonizing freedom -- Epilogue: The futile of black agony. 520 $a One might say that the womb of death, the Middle Passage, slavery, and colonization, gave birth to Black populations. Taking this observation as her point of departure, Nathalie Etoke examines Black existence today in her riveting new book, Shades of Black. In a white supremacist world, Black bodies hold a specific position, invested with a range of meaning that maintains them in a fixed role, with a script they did not write. The white world has invented and defined the Black person according to its own interests, endowing her with a bereaved humanity. The Black person is confronted with an essential paradox: exist as Black or as a human being? Does the Black person exist for herself or for the other? In the white world, is the Black race the embodiment of a sub-humanity? Situated at the crossroads of three countries (Cameroon, France, and, now, the United States) Nathalie Etoke is uniquely positioned for this polyphonic reflection on race. She examines what happens when race obliterates historical, social, cultural, and political differences among populations of African descent from different parts of the world. Focusing on recent and ongoing topics in the United States, including the murder of George Floyd, police brutality, the complex symbolism of Barack Obama and Kamala Harris, Etoke explores the relations of violence, oppression, dispossession, and inequalities that have brought us here, face to face with these existential questions: Are you breathing? Are we breathing?-- Publisher's description. 546 $a Translated from the French. 650 0 $a Black race. 650 0 $a Blacks $x Race identity. 650 0 $a Blacks. 650 0 $a African Americans. 650 0 $a Race relations. 651 0 $a Africa $x African American influences. $x African American influences. 700 1 $a Walker, Gila, $e translator. 941 $a 3 952 $l PQAX094 $d 20231214014027.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117021122.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20210615010706.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=FD754E62CD9E11EB996D3DCB37ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search