Negro, slave trader, slave trade Larousse, Pierre Vergès, Françoise
Negro, slave trader, slave trade Larousse, Pierre Vergès, Françoise
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Negro. What to do with this taboo word? Above all, not silence it, but question it, thinks Françoise Vergès , who retraces her burdened destiny. Read, for example, the article negro in the Grand Dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle by Pierre Larousse . Republished here, this article by an heir to the Enlightenment exhumes a raw racism that persists today. But limiting oneself to indignation would be sterile.
"We must first understand how 'white' became a color that donned the mask of the universal but which operates as a dividing line." Then "Blacks" and "Whites" should together question the memories and contradictions of each other, engage in struggles for equality. "These are the bridges that will weaken the color line," concludes Françoise Vergès, and which will allow, by going beyond it, "to invent a post-racial democracy."
"We must first understand how 'white' became a color that donned the mask of the universal but which operates as a dividing line." Then "Blacks" and "Whites" should together question the memories and contradictions of each other, engage in struggles for equality. "These are the bridges that will weaken the color line," concludes Françoise Vergès, and which will allow, by going beyond it, "to invent a post-racial democracy."
