Critical Perspectives on African Genocide: Memory, Silence, and Anti-Black Political Violence

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Critical Perspectives on African Genocide
Critical Perspectives on African Genocide: Memory, Silence, and Anti-BlackPolitical Violence
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1
Burundi 1972
	Why Remember?
	Rwanda and Burundi: Divergent Paths to Self-Rule
	Anatomy of a Bloodbath
	The Regional Fallout
	The Continuing Relevance of 1972
	Notes
Chapter 2
Repenser pour mieux panser (Remembering for Better Healing)
	Ethnographic Setting
	Notes
Chapter 3
Anti-Imperialist Rhetoric and Patterns of Genocide Denial in Zimbabwe
	Gukurahundi
	Crafty Uses of Anti-Imperialist Rhetoric
	African Moral Challenges or How Memory Can Serve Humanity
	Notes
Chapter 4
American Slavery, the New Jim Crow, and Genocide
	The Holocaust and Our Political Imaginary
	Pragmatic Goals and Useless Suffering
	The Banality of Genocide: Slavery as an American Institution
	The Penal System, Social Death, and Genocide
	Notes
Chapter 5
The “Post-Conflict State” in Africa
	Genocide as Normative State Practice in Africa
	Genocidal Politics in “Post-Conflict” Burundi
	Economic Insecurity: A Condition of Genocide
	Genocide and Impunity
	Militarized Peace (Stabilization) and Post–Cold War Geopolitics
	Why Regional Non-Intervention?
	Conclusions
	Notes
Chapter 6
Hermeneutical Aesthetics, Commemoration, and Mourning in Post-Genocide Rwanda
	Genocide Discourse, Commemoration, and the Context of Colonialism
	The Commemoration Aesthetics of Sites of Massacre
	Mourning and the Limits of Remembrance
	Commemorative Violence of the Sensible
	Post-Genocide Commemoration Violence
	Notes
Chapter 7
Environmental Racism as Genocide
	Downplay of Risk and Harm through Terminology
	Weakening of Environmental Justice Movements
	Targeting of an Economically Distressed Community
	Control of Knowledge Production
	Failure to Enforce Environmental Regulations
	Environmental Racism as Genocide
	Notes
Index
List of Contributors