"Zygmunt Bauman has suggested that our unstable time could one day be remembered as "The Age of Camps." For him, camps are confirmation of the fact that cruelty has been modernized, sundered from modern morality. ...He has Auschwitz and the gulags in mind rather than events in Windhoek, Kigali, Dili, and Katanga. For him the murderous accomplishments... do not extend to the genocidal activities of and Lother Von Trotha among the Herero people of German South West Africa. Although his case is weakened by this oversight, there is nonetheless something valuable and eminently translatable in Bauman's polemical observations..."
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, Against Race: Imagining Political Culture Beyond the Color Line (2000) p. 87.
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