{"product_id":"to-exist-as-a-problem-being-black-being-palestinian-hardcover","title":"To Exist as a Problem: Being Black, Being Palestinian - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eZahi Zalloua\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the first pages of \u003ci\u003eThe Souls of Black Folk\u003c\/i\u003e, W. E. B. Du Bois meditates on the question, \"How does it feel to be a problem?\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this profound response to that question, Zahi Zalloua endeavours to think through the shared Black and Palestinian experience of being racialized as a problem. Zalloua argues that today's anti-Blackness is not a lingering feature of a regrettable past that only occasionally manifests its ugly face. Rather, anti-Blackness permeates white civil society\u003cb\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003eBlack being stands for the anti-human, its being is barred and degraded. And while Black being denotes criminality, Palestinian being denotes terrorism - a problematic being produced by Orientalism and used to legitimize oppression. Both the Black and Palestinian are framed as existential threats that undermine the very structures of white and Zionist dominance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo Exist as a Problem \u003c\/i\u003eprovides a searing critique of such assumptions, arguing that Blacks and Palestinians \u003ci\u003edo\u003c\/i\u003e exist as a problem, but a different problem than the one dictated by the petrifying white and settler gaze. They exist as a threat because the mechanisms of structural racism make them so. In order for racism to thrive, they must be othered in the profoundest sense. In asking how a politics can be constructed in the face of this hegemony, Zalloua constructs a model of solidarity that places Black lives and Palestinian liberation at the forefront of the anti-racist struggle.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eZahi Zalloua\u003c\/b\u003e is the Cushing Eells Professor of Philosophy and Literature at Whitman College, USA and Editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Comparatist\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the co-author, with Ilan Kapoor, of \u003ci\u003eUniversal Politics\u003c\/i\u003e (2021), and the author of \u003ci\u003eFanon, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eZizek and the Violence of Resistance \u003c\/i\u003e(Bloomsbury 2025), \u003ci\u003e The Politics of the Wretched: Race, Reason, and Ressentiment \u003c\/i\u003e(Bloomsbury, 2024); \u003ci\u003eSolidarity and the Palestinian Cause: Indigeneity, Blackness, and the Promise of Universality\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBeing Posthuman: Ontologies of the Future\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2021), \u003ci\u003eZizek on Race: Toward an Anti-Racist Future\u003c\/i\u003e ( Bloomsbury, 2020), \u003ci\u003eTheory's Autoimmunity: Skepticism, Literature, and Philosophy \u003c\/i\u003e(2018), \u003ci\u003eContinental Philosophy and the Palestinian Question: Beyond the Jew and the Greek \u003c\/i\u003e(2017), \u003ci\u003eReading Unruly: Interpretation and Its Ethical Demands \u003c\/i\u003e(2014), and \u003ci\u003eMontaigne and the Ethics of Skepticism \u003c\/i\u003e(2005).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 09, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53801697018163,"sku":"9781350559011","price":151.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/8l6rFMeGr79781350559011.webp?v=1785975571","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/to-exist-as-a-problem-being-black-being-palestinian-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}