White Thinking: Behind the mask of racial identity

About the Author\nLilian Thuram, born in Guadeloupe in 1972, had a prestigious international career in soccer for the French national team – World champion in 1998, European champion in 2000, World Cup finalist in 2006 – and played for elite European clubs such as Juventus and Barcelona. In 2008, he created the Lilian Thuram Foundation to educate against racism, and he has become a high-profile activist himself. He is the author of various non-fiction books.\nDavid Murphy is Head of School of Humanities at University of Strathclyde. He has published widely on various aspects of modern and contemporary Francophone West African culture, including the monographs, Sembene: Imagining Alternatives in Film and Fiction (2000) and (with Patrick Williams), Postcolonial African Cinema (2007). He has also published numerous edited volumes, including (with Charles Forsdick) Postcolonial Thought in the French-Speaking World (2009) and The First World Festival of Negro Arts, Dakar 1966 (2016).\nWhat does it mean to be white? Beyond just a skin color, is it also a way of thinking? If so, how did it come about, and why? 
In this book, drawing on history, personal experience and activist literature, the former soccer player and World Champion Lilian Thuram looks at the origins and workings of white thinking, how it divides us and how it has become ubiquitous and accepted without challenge. He demonstrates how centuries of white bias and denial justified slavery and colonialism, and have reinforced norms and structures of oppression, limiting the roles and horizons of both non-whites and whites alike. 
Crucially, while White Thinking is a critique of ingrained structural inequities, it calls for an inclusive approach to solving the problem, and aims to raise awareness and imagine a new world in which all of humanity is given equal weight.

White Thinking: How Racial Bias Is Constructed and How to Move Beyond It

Politics & Social Sciences

Thuram, Lilian

Social Sciences

Hero

People, young and old, need stars to guide them. They need models to construct their own identity, to build their self-esteem, to change the way they see the world and to overcome their own and others' prejudice. During my childhood, many stars were pointed out to me. I admired them, dreamt about them: Socrates, Baudelaire, Einstein, Marie Curie, General de Gaulle, Mother Teresa... But nobody ever spoke to me about black stars. The world of my education was white, from the colour of the school walls to the pages of my textbooks. I knew nothing about my own ancestors. Slavery was the only black subject ever mentioned. In this vision, the history of Black people could only ever be a vale of tears and strife. Can you tell me the name of a black scientist? A black explorer? A black philosopher? A black pharaoh? If you don't know the answer to these questions, then, whatever the colour of your skin, this book is for you. Because the best way to fight racism and intolerance is to educate ourselves and to broaden our imaginations. The portraits of the men and women in this book are a product of my own reading and my interviews with scholars. Starting with Lucy and ending with Barack Obama, and along the way meeting Aesop, Dona Béatrice, Pushkin, Anne Zingha, Aimé Césaire, Martin Luther King and many others. These stars have allowed me to reject the idea that I am a victim, to renew my faith in mankind and, above all, to believe in myself. - Lilian Thuram This translation of Lilian Thuram's bestselling 2010 volume, Mes Etoiles Noires, by Laurent Dubois (University of Virginia), finally brings his anti-racism work to the attention of an English-language audience (the book has already been translated into several European languages). At a time when the Black Lives Matter movement has reminded us of the need to tell more complex stories about our shared past, this volume constitutes a timely intervention by a prominent black sporting figure. The stars chosen by Thuram include: Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Billie Holiday, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Dr Martin Luther King Jnr., Muhammad Ali, Nelson Mandela, Tupac Shakur, and Barack Obama.

My Black Stars: From Lucy to Barack Obama

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Liverpool University Press

Murphy, David

Loingsigh, Aedín Ní

Johnston, Cristina

Legend Press US

Exhibitions - L'invention du sauvage

Actes-sud

Manifeste pour l'Égalité

Reference

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Autrement *

RO80187662. 8 JUILLET 1998. 2004. In-8. Broch. Bon tat, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intrieur frais. 205 Pages. Nombreuses photos en couleur dans et hors texte.. . . . Classification Dewey : 796.334-Football

8 juillet 1998

Sports & Outdoors

Burnet, James

Hockey

Anne Carrière

Avec la collaboration de Bernard Fillaire. Que savons-nous de l’histoire des peuples noirs ? Dans quel contexte avons-nous entendu parler des grands héros noirs pour la première fois ? De la Préhistoire – les plus vieux ossements humains ont été découverts en Afrique – aux temps modernes, le Noir ne vécut pas que de larmes et d’armes. Qui sait que le Grec Ésope, inspirateur des fables de La Fontaine, était d’origine africaine ? Que certains Pharaons d’Égypte étaient noirs ? Qui connaît l’existence de la Charte du Manden, la première déclaration des droits de l’homme, théorisée au Mali cinq cent soixante-sept ans avant la nôtre ? Qui sait que le grand poète russe Pouchkine était d’origine camerounaise ? Que le Noir Matthew Henson fut le premier conquérant du pôle Nord ? Que de nombreux chercheurs noirs sont à l’origine de ce qui fait notre quotidien, comme par exemple la transfusion sanguine, les feux de circulation ou l’antenne parabolique ? Destiné à tous les publics, cet ouvrage raconte le destin d’environ 40 personnages noirs qui ont aidés Lilian Thuram à forger son estime de soi, à éviter la victimisation et à déconstruire le racisme.

Mes étoiles noires. De Lucy à Barack Obama

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Un livre personnel et percutant sur un thème original par un joueur de football légendaire, très aimé des Français 
Qu'est-ce qu'être blanc ? Plus qu'une couleur de peau, n'est-ce pas plutôt une pensée ? Qui sont ceux qui l'ont inventée, et pourquoi ? 
Ce livre raconte l'histoire de la pensée blanche, son origine et son fonctionnement, la manière dont elle divise, comment elle s'est répandue à travers le monde au point d'être aujourd'hui universelle, jusqu'à infuser l'air que l'on respire. Depuis des siècles, la pensée blanche est une norme, la fossilisation de hiérarchies, de schémas de domination, d'habitudes qui nous sont imposées. Elle signifie aux Blancs et aux non-Blancs ce qu'ils doivent être, quelle est leur place. Comme la longue emprise des hommes sur les femmes, elle est profondément ancrée dans nos mentalités et agit au quotidien. Seule sa remise en question permettra d'avancer pour passer à autre chose. 
Il ne s'agit pas de culpabiliser ni d'accuser, mais de comprendre les mécanismes à l'uvre, d'en prendre conscience pour construire de nouvelles solidarités. Le temps n'est-il pas venu d'élargir nos points de vue pour nous considérer tous enfin comme des êtres humains ?\nLilian Thuram

La pensée blanche

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