{"product_id":"9781350559011","title":"To Exist as a Problem Being Black, Being Palestinian","description":"\u003ch1\u003eTo Exist as a Problem\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eBeing Black, Being Palestinian\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eZahi Zalloua\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilosophy \/ Social\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the first pages of \u003ci\u003eThe Souls of Black Folk\u003c\/i\u003e, W. E. B. Du Bois meditates on the question, “How does it feel to be a problem?”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this profound response to that question, Zahi Zalloua endeavours to think through the shared Black and Palestinian experience of being racialized as a problem. Zalloua argues that today's anti-Blackness is not a lingering feature of a regrettable past that only occasionally manifests its ugly face. Rather, anti-Blackness permeates white civil society\u003cb\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003eBlack being stands for the anti-human, its being is barred and degraded. And while Black being denotes criminality, Palestinian being denotes terrorism – a problematic being produced by Orientalism and used to legitimize oppression. Both the Black and Palestinian are framed as existential threats that undermine the very structures of white and Zionist dominance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo Exist as a Problem \u003c\/i\u003eprovides a searing critique of such assumptions, arguing that Blacks and Palestinians \u003ci\u003edo\u003c\/i\u003e exist as a problem, but a different problem than the one dictated by the petrifying white and settler gaze. They exist as a threat because the mechanisms of structural racism make them so. In order for racism to thrive, they must be othered in the profoundest sense. In asking how a politics can be constructed in the face of this hegemony, Zalloua constructs a model of solidarity that places Black lives and Palestinian liberation at the forefront of the anti-racist struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eZahi Zalloua\u003c\/b\u003e is the Cushing Eells Professor of Philosophy and Literature at Whitman College, USA and Editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Comparatist\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the co-author, with Ilan Kapoor, of \u003ci\u003eUniversal Politics\u003c\/i\u003e (2021), and the author of \u003ci\u003eFanon,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eŽižek and the Violence of Resistance \u003c\/i\u003e(Bloomsbury 2025),\u003ci\u003e The Politics of the Wretched: Race, Reason, and Ressentiment \u003c\/i\u003e(Bloomsbury, 2024); \u003ci\u003eSolidarity and the Palestinian Cause: Indigeneity, Blackness, and the Promise of Universality\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBeing Posthuman: Ontologies of the Future\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2021), \u003ci\u003eŽižek on Race: Toward an Anti-Racist Future\u003c\/i\u003e ( Bloomsbury, 2020), \u003ci\u003eTheory's Autoimmunity: Skepticism, Literature, and Philosophy \u003c\/i\u003e(2018), \u003ci\u003eContinental Philosophy and the Palestinian Question: Beyond the Jew and the Greek \u003c\/i\u003e(2017), \u003ci\u003eReading Unruly: Interpretation and Its Ethical Demands \u003c\/i\u003e(2014), and \u003ci\u003eMontaigne and the Ethics of Skepticism \u003c\/i\u003e(2005).\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e09 July 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350559011\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e240\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e18.24\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378270371980,"sku":"9781350559011","price":72.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_65774d80-743e-4e61-af68-281fa82462ed.jpg?v=1783908312","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781350559011","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}