The abolition of all privilege
Race, equality, and freedom in the work of Anténor Firmin
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2361027 |
|---|---|
| Authors | G Beckett (0000-0002-8875-9374, Bowdoin College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 160-178 |
| Publication date | 2017-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critique of Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-275X • E-ISSN: 1460-3721 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0308275x17694945 |
| OpenAlex | W2592678984 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 25 |
Anthropology has done much to challenge the idea of the natural inferiority of races, but at times this challenge has ignored the problem of racism. This article explores an important but largely ignored foundational text about race and equality written by Anténor Firmin, a Haitian intellectual who in 1885 set out to critique the categories and concepts of nineteenth-century French anthropology. I show how Firmin's critique of race thinking and the doctrine of racial inequality were rooted in a broader critique of colonialism, racism, and inherited privilege. Drawing on Firmin's argument that the end of racism would facilitate the abolition of all privilege, I suggest ways in which the discipline of anthropology might build on his critique to develop a more powerful response to the reemergence of ideas of innate difference and inequality
Argument (complex analysis · Colonialism · Doctrine · Epistemology · Political science · Privilege (computing · Race (biology · Racism · Sociology · Anthropology · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Gender Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Law · Migration, Identity, and Health · Philosophy
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Out of the Study and Into the Field
Race, culture, and evolution
Homo hierarchicus
Man's Most Dangerous Myth
In the Museum of Man
Global Transformations
From Savage to Negro
A Haitian in Paris
Nineteenth-Century Haiti and the Archipelago of the Americas
Antinomies of Slavery, Enlightenment, and Universal History
Anténor Firmin and Jean Price-Mars
The development of French anthropology
From the Colonial Exhibition to the Museum of Man. An alternative genealogy of French anthropology
Culture
"Genomics, divination, "racecraft
Anténor Firmin
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |