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from Part III - Posthumanities
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 November 2020
“Race and the Limitations of the Human” analyzes the racial dimensions of a process of humanization linked to imperial conquest. Rather than seeing in the violence committed against diverse peoples during the colonization of the Americas a force of dehumanization, this chapter reads this violence as part and parcel of the liberal western humanist order that continues to be experimentally and pedagogically worked out in colonial and nation-building projects. The chapter tracks this humanizing process through debates about Indigenous and Black humanity in conversation with critiques of posthumanist theory as an extension of the western enlightenment project. The question posed is whether—rather than understanding the “post-“ to refer to either an after to the humanizing project or a return to its initiatory moments as critical gesture—it might be better to view it as a suspension or refusal of the western colonial project and its racialized, humanized order.
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