Abstract Jean-Paul Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason and Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth both sought to offer accounts of colonialism as a form of systemic racism. They did so starting from lived experience, but they understood that accounts of lived experience remain fundamentally unintelligible when abstracted from the material system in which that experience is located. This is true even for those who share that experience. Lived experience becomes concrete only in the light of the material system that produces it, while the material system remains opaque without the illumination brought to it by concrete lived experience. They shared the conviction, first, that only dialectics can bring these two together and, second, that the colonial system is only fully revealed in revolutionary praxis.

Robert Bernasconi

Critical Philosophy of Race

The critical philosophy of race consists in the philosophical examination of issues raised by the concept of race, the practices and mechanisms of racialization, and the persistence of various forms of racism across the world. Critical philosophy of race is a critical enterprise in three respects: it opposes racism in all its forms; it rejects the pseudosciences of old-fashioned biological racialism; and it denies that anti-racism and anti-racialism summarily eliminate race as a meaningful category of analysis. Critical philosophy of race is a philosophical enterprise because of its engagement with traditional philosophical questions and in its readiness to engage critically some of the traditional answers.

The journal "Critical Philosophy of Race" is dedicated to the philosophical examination of issues raised by the concept of race, the practices and mechanisms of racialization, and the persistence of various forms of racism across the globe. Critical philosophy of race is critical in three respects: it opposes racism in all its forms; it rejects the outdated pseudosciences of biological racialism; and it denies that anti-racism and anti-racialism can simply eliminate race as a meaningful category of analysis. Critical philosophy of race is a philosophical endeavor because it engages with traditional philosophical questions and is prepared to critically examine some of the traditional answers.

《Critical Philosophy of Race》期刊致力于对种族概念所引发的问题、种族化的实践与机制，以及各种形式的种族主义在全球范围内的持续存在进行哲学探讨。批判种族哲学在三个方面具有批判性：它反对所有形式的种族主义；它拒绝过时的生物种族主义伪科学；并且它否认反种族主义和反种族主义立场可以简单地消除种族作为一个有意义的分析类别。批判种族哲学是一项哲学事业，因为它涉及传统哲学问题，并准备批判性地探讨一些传统答案。

Existentialism against Colonialism

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ETHNIC STUDIES	2