Episode 211: Sartre on Racism and Authenticity (Part Three)
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audio
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Comedy
Philosophy
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Society & Culture
Publication Date |
Mar 25, 2019
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01:05:52

Moving finally on to Jean-Paul Sartre's "Black Orpheus" (1948), where he introduces a book of black poetry by praising its revolutionary spirit as embodied in "negritude." Is this a legitimate consciousness-raising exercise or a weird fetishization of blackness?

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