Toward a materialist approach to the question of race: A response to the Indigènes de la République
One can only praise the authors of this critique of “confusionnisme politique”, the translator’s excellent work, and the Charnel House for publishing this important work. There is a very disingenuous reply full of the tropes of cl assical Europen rhetoric, and little substance (‘essentially’ repeating, it’s an Indigenes thing, you wouldn’t understand), here: http://indigenes-republique.fr/vacarme-critique-les-indigenes-la-faillite-du-materialisme-abstrait-2/
Tendance Coatesy 
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The Socialist | Toward a materialist approach to the question of race: A response to the Indigènes de la République
July 25, 2015 at 9:09 pm
I’m translating the reply now. It is dyspeptic, to say the least.
puyraveau
July 29, 2015 at 12:53 am
The translation of the first article was a great work: the article being densely written and long.
The reply!!!!
Reading the Indigènes frequent references to Fanon incidentally always reminds me that 1) Fanon never learnt Arabic (let alone Berber) in all his years as a psychiatrist in North Africa and association with the FLN, and 2) According to Dave Macey’s biography Frantz Fanon: A Life. 2001, authoritative enough to be translated into French http://www.editionsladecouverte.fr/catalogue/index-Frantz_Fanon__une_vie-9782707169808.html), he was always viewed with suspicion as a black non-Muslim by the more conservative elements of the FLN.
Still no doubt I don’t understand – it’s an “Indigènes” thing.
Andrew Coates
July 29, 2015 at 4:33 pm