Conférence : White privilege and the question of the human

La Chaire est heureuse de vous convier à une réflexion critique sur le thème du privilège blanc, menée par le professeur Philip Howard. La présentation sera offerte en anglais et la discussion sera bilingue.

Résumé de la présentation

This talk will be an engagement with the term and the concept of white privilege and, more substantively, with its liberal underpinnings. It will briefly trace the history of this concept, and of the critique of it, to think through an often embodied discontent with the term and the effects of its use. Using a theoretical orientation located in Black Study and particularly Sylvia Wynter’s analysis of the construction of the (Western) Human, Man, will add to these reflections, and further analyze how the concept, white privilege, moves, non-performatively, do something less, and more, than it claims. We will consider language that may more adequately achieve what the term white privilege might be presumed to intend to do.

Pour se préparer…

En vue de l’évènement, nous vous invitons à lire le texte No Humans Involved: An Open Letter to My Colleagues (Wynter, 1994), qui servira d’appui à la discussion.