Date 30 September 2020
Pages 222
Format cm 14 x 21
Price € 18.50
EAN 9782246817178
Publisher Website www.grasset.fr

Afropea

Post-Racial and Post-Western Utopia
Publisher Grasset
GENRE Essay
Keywords Afro-Europeans
A "post-racist" utopia where European countries will finally recognize their true multiple identities.

Léonora Miano imagines a new world for children born of the relationship between Africa and Europe: Afropeans, no longer relegated to a racialized vision but recognized for what they are, their experience and culture. Afropeans have constructed themselves as a minority, an identity that complicates solidarity between Afropeans and sub-Saharans. Europe sees as African primarily its citizens of sub-Saharan descent, which does not help Afro-Europeans integrate or feel they have a stake in their country. But Afro-Europeans can embody a fraternal, anti-imperialist, and anti-racist project for society. In a Europe plagued by identity-based tensions, the Afropean perspective still seems utopian.

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