To Exist as a Problem

In the first pages of The Souls of Black Folk, W. E. B. Du Bois meditates on the question, How does it feel to be a problem? In this profound response to that question, Zahi Zalloua endeavours to think through the shared Black and Palestinian experience of being racialized as a problem. Zalloua argues that today's anti-Blackness is not a lingering feature of a regrettable past that only occasiona...