This essay asks, If one of the legacies of slavery in the Americas was the racialization of enslaved Africans, and indeed the racialization of the modern world, did this legacy of race not also impact the communities on the African continent? The essay grapples with this question by insisting what should be a baseline understanding: that modern racial consciousness, and especially global racialization processes that emerge in the wake of the transatlantic slave trade, also impacted continental African communities. I focus specifically on the ways that the legacies of anthropological knowledge production in Africa depend on racializing tropes of Africans while simultaneously impeding this type of racial analysis. And I suggest a reconsideration of the ways we apprehend African community formation post-European contact. I argue for an understanding of the modern development of African societies that shifts from exclusive investments in local configurations to systematic approaches in which the histories and legacies of slavery and race are situated.

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奴隶制、人类学知识和非洲人的种族化

这篇文章问，如果美洲奴隶制的遗产之一是被奴役的非洲人的种族化，实际上是现代世界的种族化，那么这种种族遗产不也影响了非洲大陆的社区吗？这篇文章通过坚持应该有一个基本理解来解决这个问题：现代种族意识，尤其是跨大西洋奴隶贸易之后出现的全球种族化进程，也影响了非洲大陆社区。我特别关注非洲人类学知识生产的遗产如何依赖非洲人的种族化比喻，同时又阻碍了这种类型的种族分析。我建议重新考虑我们在欧洲接触后理解非洲社区形成的方式。