• DOI:10.1086/695377
Corpus ID: 224798450

Apartheid / Apartheid / [   ]

@article{Makdisi2018ApartheidA,
  title={Apartheid / Apartheid / [   ]},
  author={Saree Makdisi},
  journal={Critical Inquiry},
  year={2018},
  volume={44},
  pages={304 - 330}
}

Saree Makdisi

Published 2018

Critical Inquiry

“APARTHEID: by itself the word occupies the terrain like a concentration camp,” wrote Jacques Derrida in an issue of this journal thirtythree years ago. “This last-born of many racisms is also the only one surviving in the world, at least the only one still parading itself in a political constitution. It remains the only one on the scene to dare to say its name and to present itself for what it is: a legal defiance taken by homo politicus, a juridical racism and a state racism.” In reply to a… CONTINUE READING

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