We often speak of the Americanization of French intellectual life to describe the new obsession with race in public debate.
But reading Houria Bouteldja's latest book proves to us that France has nothing to envy the United States in terms of racialist thinkers.
The decolonial activist, founder of the Indigenous Party of the Republic is known for her radical positions.
For her previous book,
Les Blancs, les Juifs et nous (La Fabrique)
, where she invited Jews to free themselves from their "whiteness" and to renounce Israel, she had been much criticized, but also supported, in particular by a dozen intellectuals, including Annie Ernaux describing in
Le Monde
her thinking
as "ahead of its time"
.
His latest book,
Beaufs et barbares.
The wager of the we
begins with these words from the Apocalypse of Saint John: “
Now is the time to destroy those who destroy the earth.
The eschatological tone continues page after page: the end of the world is...
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