...Sartre being the roi de l'existentialisme and Camus his dauphin, yet his single reference to the latter ("Albert Camus once said that racism is absurd. Racism introduces absurdity into the human condition" [My Life, 3]) in the opening of the second volume of his autobiography remains untraceable. Did he...

...to racism in the opening sentence of the second volume of his autobiography, My Life of Absurdity: Albert Camus once said that racism is absurd. Racism...victims intensifies the absurdity of the racists ad infinitum. If one lives in a country where racism is held valid and practiced in all ways of life,...

...history. Picking up on an idea from Albert Camus, the African-American writer Chester Himes once observed: "Racism introduces absurdity into the human condition....racists, but it generates absurdity in the victims. . . . Racism creates absurdity among blacks as a defense mechanism. Absurdity to combat absurdity."...