Sartre’s Imaginary and the Problem of Whiteness

Abstract Jean-Paul Sartre’s failures in Black Orpheus have been widely and rightly explicated by a number of theorists, most notably Frantz Fanon and Aimé Césaire. Sartre has rightly been criticized for imposing a white gaze onto his reading of colonized African poetry. It would seem that his work offers us no tools for anti-racist work today. ForContinue reading “Sartre’s Imaginary and the Problem of Whiteness”