Forged in political militancy, Houria Bouteldja's is a lively, pointed voice. Its strength comes from discontent, from discomfort in the face of a world that affirms itself in racial exclusion and that has exercised colonialism
—Ideological, economic and political— on the new generations. Her "we" is not a universalist us,.
we are not all mentioned (we will say, in paraphrase to the text).
This book can be read as a decolonial manifesto for the 21st century or, more specifically, as an invitation to revolutionary love, which does not belong to romanticism, but to justice. This is a call to decolonize the world, to recognize that the privilege of the few is built on the oppression of the many. While it is true that Houria writes from her context as a Franco-Algerian thinker, she does so from her own experience, in the racially segregated neighborhoods of Paris.
The most important quality of milestone texts is to find, from a particularity, what is common
to the humans. When mentioning indigenous people, the author refers to “those colonized” by France, and when evoking Jews,
invites them to acknowledge their common past. This same call could be read in a Latin American key, with
the excluded indigenous peoples, with the invitation to recognize the diverse histories and philosophies in the territory
common. The testimony of an angry self-recognition awaits in these pages that are not satisfied with
to expose, or only to point out with theoretical reluctance ... There resides here a passionate way to summon a single channel
for the benefit of all.