Abstract

ALMANZA HERNANDEZ, Roberto. Black Consciousness: Memorial Whiteness Shall Fall. Tabula Rasa [online]. 2022, n.44, pp.257-278.  Epub Apr 23, 2022. ISSN 1794-2489.  https://doi.org/10.25058/20112742.n44.10.

In this article, I intend to make an Afro-centered reading of iconoclasm, by putting forward a reflection on the present time and the need to dismantle the world of whiteness, with the uneasiness caused by monuments is only a reactive aspect of an issue dealing with how the world we inhabit is set up. The murder of George Floyd and the platform of the Black Lives Matter movement succeeded in calling the world’s attention about police brutality towards black lives that struggle to breathe in a hostile, violent, unfair world. The outrage about colonial, and sometimes republican, monuments is but a symptom of the frustration produced by a world and civilization design become hegemonic. Under this light, I suggest thinking on a Black chronopolitics allowing to draw a history leading to a Black consciousness and the radical challenge of fixing Whiteness world.

Keywords : racial capitalism; Whiteness; Black consciousness; monuments.

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