Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Slavery, Theology, and Anti-Blackness in the Arab World

Thanks Moses for this interesting review. I will never cite Ibn Khaldoun again without a health warning. 

But you promised us origins. Where did Khaldoun's racism originate? You say that it was slavery but was there racism before slavery? How about sexism that co-exists with racism in articulation? Does the original sin of slavery also explain that? And how about class domination, the very essence of slavery which you admit is not always racial? You may have left some juice in the tube by focusing only on racism and neglecting sexism and classism without which racism is not fully meaningful because, though different, they are never experienced in isolation or separately because they are intersectional.

By the way, did Khaldoun understand the meaning of the traveler's tale that 'they frequently eat each other'? It simply means making love to each other even in English today where they talk about eating as a polite way to talk about getting some. I believe that the Hausa word, 'ci', the Igbo word, 'rie' and the Yoruba word, 'je' are all suggestive synonyms for intercourse. No be so?

Biko

On Friday, 7 May 2021, 08:56:07 GMT-4, Moses Ebe Ochonu <meochonu@gmail.com> wrote:

Here's a link to my review essay titled, "Slavery, Theology, and Anti-Blackness in the Arab World," just published in RESEARCH AFRICA REVIEW. The essay started life as a lecture I gave at Duke University's symposium on Anti-Blackness in the Arab World. Thereafter, due to popular demand, the editors of the review publication, who are also editors of Duke's popular "Research Africa" scholarly listserv, appealed to me to develop the lecture so they could publish it in the review journal.

https://sites.duke.edu/researchafrica/files/2021/05/2-5-Slavery-Theology-and-Anti-Blackness-in-the-Arab-World-2021-.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1xkJarbEhv4Jw6CNRPozFkmdS1HTJMHeLYYuiTv2sWx3oXDxp85WL8Q_A

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