Derrida self-described as an uprooted African born between colonizer and colonized

Evidence

Derrida was speaking there of “movements of deconstruction” and of “decolonization.” At this particular moment, Derrida says that he speaks “without demagogic facility or conventional deference toward my hosts”; rather, he speaks as a sort of uprooted Mrican, comme cette sorte d ‘Aftican deracine que je suis, “born in Algiers in a environment about which it will always be difficult to say whether it was colonizing or colonized.” — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 257 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Derrida identified himself as an uprooted African born in colonial Algeria — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab: A History of the…, 257; Derrida’s self-description as African deliberately resists stable identity — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab: A History of the…, 262; A colonized intellectual living in Europe acquires Europe’s racist unconscious

Broader Connections

• Derrida identified himself as an uprooted African born in colonial Algeria #corroborates (1.00) — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 257
• A colonized intellectual living in Europe acquires Europe’s racist unconscious #complicates (0.74)