Book Club - Neither Settler Nor Native

The Ethics Center is hosting a book club on Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities by Mahmood Mamdani. The author proposes that decolonization requires exploring the causal relations between the creation of religious and racialized minorities and between exclusion, genocide and exploitation administered by state violence. In contrast to the legal approach of international bodies like Nuremberg, Mamdani proposes creating a political community of shared experiences and democratic commitments as a political solution to political violence. 

Led by W.F. Santiago-Valles, Emeritus Professor of Africana Studies. Virtual meetings will be at 6 p.m. Wednesdays March 4, March 18, March 25 and April 1 on Zoom. Participants will receive the meeting link after they register. The first 10 sign-ups receive a free book.