Rednecks and Barbarians

‘This book is for anyone who wants to learn more about French decolonial theory and to read one of the most interesting antiracist decolonial activists in France today, Houria Bouteldja. Known for her incisive analysis of moral antiracism in France, Bouteldja offers here a strong argument for the unity between “rednecks” and “barbarians”. This is essential to fight the foundations of the total racial state and its racial pact which maintains the division between these two groups.’

– Françoise Vergès, author of A Programme of Absolute Disorder: Decolonizing the Museum

‘Houria Bouteldja throws all our certainties into the air, and with brilliant precision, reassembles them. With a clear and uncompromising eye, she points towards a truly emancipatory future in which, following Fanon, all the Wretched of the Earth can ‘look for something else’, far beyond the racial state’’

– Alana Lentin, author of Why Race Still Matters

‘The hatred that Houria Bouteldja arouses is commensurate with her courage.’

– Annie Ernaux

‘A masterpiece’

– François Bégaudeau, author of The Class

Houria Bouteldja is a French-Algerian political activist and writer. She served as spokesperson for the Party of the Indigenous of the Republic until 2020. She is the author of Whites, Jews and Us: Towards a Politics of Revolutionary Love. The author lives in Paris, France.

Rachel Valinsky is a writer, translator, and editor living in New York and Paris. Previously, she translated Houria Boutledja’s Whites, Jews, and Us: Toward a Politics of Revolutionary Love. She is the Artistic Director at Wendy’s Subway and the Director of Publications at the Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA) in New York.