Genocide has become a part of the contemporary global expression of political violence. After all, every continent has had its genocide, but genocide in Africa and the African diaspora is distinctly different from those in Europe or the West. This text approaches genocide from within the context of Africa and the African diaspora to examine political and philosophical after-effects of global colonialism.

As genocidal state violence has become prominent through colonialism, its appearance in Europe and the West have developed sharply against how it appears in colonized spaces within the African diaspora. This text argues that such a difference in orientation is needed to develop new concepts, critical approaches, and perspectives on the intersections between colonialism, political violence, and anti-black politics as a way of critically understanding global genocide and the presence of continual genocidal violence.

Alfred Frankowski is associate professor of philosophy and director of graduate studies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

Jeanine Ntihiragezais professor and director, Center for Genocide and Human Rights and Research in Africa and the Diaspora at Northeastern Illinois University.

Chielozona Ezeis theBernard J. Brommel Distinguished Research Professor of African and African American Literature and Cultural Studies, Northeastern Illinois University and Extraordinary Professor, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

Editors Introduction

Ch. 1: Remembering for Better Healing: A Survivors Account of the 1972 Burundi Genocide
Jeanine Ntihirageza
Ch. 2: Burundi 1972: Remembering a Forgotten Genocide
René Lemarchand
Ch. 3: Anti-Imperialist Rhetoric and Patterns of Genocide Denial in Zimbabwe
Chielozona Eze
Ch. 4: American Slavery, The New Jim Crow, and Genocide
Lissa Skitolsky
Ch. 5: The Post-Conflict State in Africa: Challenging the Continued Normalization of Genocidal Violence
Patricia Daley
Ch. 6: Rwandan Commemoration Discourse and Post-Genocidal Violence
Alfred Frankowski
Ch. 7: Environmental Racism as Genocide: A Case Study of Shell Bluff, Georgia
Milanika S. Turner

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