Abstract Using material from the history of African thought, this essay proposes a strategy for writing a comparative history of race that ranges beyond a consideration of white supremacy and its anti-racist inflections. Studies of race outside the global north have often been hobbled by rigid modernist assumptions that over-privilege the determining influence of Western discourses at the expense of local intellectual inheritances. This essay, in contrast, proposes a focus on locally inherited discourses of difference that have shown signs of becoming racialized, at times through entanglement with Western ideas. It pays particular attention to discourses that arranged “human kinds” along a progression from barbarian to civilized, suggesting the presence of African historicisms that in modern times have converged with the stadial ideas that played a major role in Western racial thought.

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走向非洲种族思想的比较史：历史主义、野蛮主义、本土

摘要 本文使用非洲思想史的材料，提出了一种撰写种族比较史的策略，其范围超出了对白人至上及其反种族主义影响的考虑。对全球北方以外种族的研究经常受到严格的现代主义假设的阻碍，这些假设以牺牲地方知识遗产为代价，过度重视西方话语的决定性影响。相比之下，这篇文章提出了关注当地继承的差异话语，这些话语有时通过与西方思想的纠缠而表现出种族化的迹象。它特别关注将“人类”安排在从野蛮到文明的进程中的话语，