{"product_id":"to-exist-as-a-problem-zahi-zalloua-9781350559028","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 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Zahi Zalloua\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350559024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350559028\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/09\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.11lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.11d","brand":"Zahi Zalloua","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48623511765247,"sku":"9781350559028","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dad53499-5b95-4f44-9c3d-9f74f4aa0ea5.jpg?v=1780432999","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/to-exist-as-a-problem-zahi-zalloua-9781350559028","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}