{"product_id":"to-exist-as-a-problem-9781350559011","title":"To Exist as a Problem: Being Black, Being Palestinian","description":"\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\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 11 June 2026\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePage count:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e Height 163 mm; Width 242 mm; Thickness 22 mm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardback\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781350559011\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Zahi Zalloua","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":50170088784122,"sku":"9781350559011","price":53.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/files\/9781350559011.jpg?v=1787618374","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/to-exist-as-a-problem-9781350559011","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}