The Body’s Legacies Pt. 2: The Postcolonial Body

Overview

Police violence and racial body politics in postcolonial France. Throughout the work four decolonial thinkers and activists share thoughts around the subject of the individual and collective racialized body. The exchange pivots around a concrete, devastating instance of racially motivated police aggression where a young man of Congolese descent, Théo Luhaka, was assaulted by police officers following a race-based identity check in a Parisian banlieue in 2017.