{"id":728,"date":"2017-10-04T12:55:42","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T12:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/din.today\/?p=728"},"modified":"2017-10-05T13:43:57","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T13:43:57","slug":"preface-of-cornel-west-in-houria-bouteldjas-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/din.today\/?p=728","title":{"rendered":"Preface of Cornel West in Houria Bouteldja\u2019s book"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Houria Bouteldja is a French-Algerian political activist and writer focusing on anti-racism, anti-imperialism, and Islamophobia. She serves as spokesperson for the Parti des Indig\u00e8nes de la R\u00e9publique (Party of the Indigenous of the Republic), a member organization of the Decolonial International Network (DIN).<\/p>\n

Houria has published a book in French titled: Les Blancs, les Juifs et nous: vers une politique de l’amour r\u00e9volutionnaire. It is now translated in English and will be published at MIT press in November 2017 under the title: Whites, Jews, and Us – Toward a Politics of Revolutionary Love.<\/p>\n

For more information see: https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/books\/whites-jews-and-us<\/a><\/p>\n

Cornel West, philosophy professor at Harvard and Princeton, public intellectual and activist, wrote a preface. This is the preface.<\/p>\n

Cornel West<\/h2>\n

This book is a courageous and controversial act of revolutionary love. Houria Bouteldja\u2019s bold and critical challenge to all of us\u2014especially those who claim to be leftists or progressives\u2014builds on the rich legacies of Malcolm X, Jean Genet, Aim\u00e9 C\u00e9saire, Audre Lorde, James Baldwin, Frantz Fanon, and Chela Sandoval. This challenge consists of a powerful intellectual case against imperial innocence and a poignant cry of the heart for an indigenous revolutionary politics\u2014a politics that is unapologetically anti-patriarchal, anti-capitalist, and anti-imperialist grounded in the doings and sufferings of colonized peoples. It comes as no surprise that our present moment of escalating neo-fascist regimes, tightening patriarchal practices and neoliberal free-market ideologies have thrown the left and progressive voices into a panic. And such a panic makes it difficult to have a robust and painful dialogue about whiteness, Zionism, patriarchy, and empire.<\/p>\n

Does not the end of imperial innocence entail the rejection of social democracy or neoliberal politics\u2014with their attendant \u201cwhite good conscience,\u201d top-down feminism, bourgeois multiculturalism, and refusal to target a vicious Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands and people? Do not the precious lives of hundreds of thousands of Muslims killed by U.S. and NATO Armed Forces (including immoral drone strikes) have any moral weight in how we understand the ugly forms of xenophobia spilling out of control in the US and Europe? What does a candid and compassionate indictment of Zionist practices on the West Band and Gaza look like that avoids anti-Jewish hatred and contempt? How does a \u201cdecolonizing internationalism\u201d proceed in the face of entrenched nationalisms or neoliberal cosmopolitanism? Can a \u201cdecolonial feminism\u201d\u2014with its echoes from the work of the visionary bell hooks in the very belly of the US imperial beast\u2014lead toward a \u201cconcrete emancipation\u201d that resists patriarchal religions and elite feminisms? As the \u201cgenocides, ecodisasters, and ethnocides\u201d continue to surface, \u201cwedded to new secular hierarchies,\u201d either a new \u201cgreat We of a decolonized majority\u201d rooted in visions beyond empire, capitalism, whiteness, and patriarchy and grounded in a revolutionary love can guide us or we all succumb to the \u201cancient forces of human greed and violence.\u201d These questions and issues demand the best of who we are\u2014and none of us have a monopoly on the truth and justice they require and solicit. There is a genuine humility in this book\u2014and its sense of urgency and dire emergency behooves us to wrestle with its rich contents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Houria Bouteldja is a French-Algerian political activist and writer focusing on anti-racism, anti-imperialism, and Islamophobia. She serves as spokesperson for the Parti des Indig\u00e8nes de la R\u00e9publique (Party of the Indigenous of the Republic), a member organization of the Decolonial International Network (DIN). Houria has published a book in French titled: Les Blancs, les Juifs … Continue reading Preface of Cornel West in Houria Bouteldja\u2019s book<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017_10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":737,"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}