The Effects of Race: The Devastating Effects of Rigid Category-Thinking by Nina Jablonski and Gerhard Maré (review)

Abstract

The scholars in this book argue their thinking and share their experiences from living ‘in a racialized world and who yearn for a human one’ (Jablonski and Maré 2018, 7) and seek to transcend their racialised lives and move the readers to appreciate a universal, more human space, where full personhood can emerge. The book is an attempt to decolonise what it means to be human and attempts to rescue being human from the grip of race. It shapes a new version of and creates ‘a new humanism and to imagine humanity otherwise’ (Jablonski and Maré 2018, 61). REvIEW NINA JAbLoNSKI ANd GERhARd MARé (EdS) (2018) the effects of Race: the devastating effects of Rigid categoRy-thinKing. AFRICAN SUN MEdIA R E V I E W : J a B L O N S K I a N D m a R é : T h E E F F E C T S O F R a C E