Category Archives: genealogy

Refusing to be Outsiders: Fanon, Islam, and the (White) Christian West

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Tim McGee

What’s all this about black people and a black nationality?  I am French.  I am interested in French culture, French civilization, and the French.  We refuse to be treated as outsiders; we are well and truly part of French history … Continue reading →

Posted in colonialism, Derrida, fanon, genealogy, Islam, MLK, race, religion | 1 Comment

Telling History: Barth and Foucault

Posted on May 6, 2009 by Tim McGee

“History is a synthetic work of art.  History emerges from what has occurred, and has one single, unified theme.”  Karl Barth, __The Epistle to the Romans__, 146. People generally assume that “postmodernism,” whatever else it might be, is a suspicion … Continue reading →

Posted in barth, foucault, genealogy, history, milbank | 15 Comments