racism

Black/Afro “Awareness-Raising” in Luruaco: Transformations and Disputes in Identity Policies

Sibelys K. Mejía Rodríguez, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia

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Racism the Argentinean Way: Straining Imaginaries Within a White Society Packed with Black People

Sergio Caggiano, Centro de Investigaciones Sociales (CIS) / Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (Conicet) / Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social (IDES), Argentina

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Multiculturalism and/or Racial Equality? An Analysis of Public Policies for Afro-Descendant People in Brazil

Rebecca Lemos Igreja, Universidade de Brasília, Brasil

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Whiteness Command: Racism and Racial Privilege in Cali

Gustavo A. Santana-Perlaza, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte

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White Men in Black Lands. Racial Phallotopies in Colombia’s Southern Pacific

Mateo Pazos, Universidade Estadual de Campinas

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Chilean Whitenesses: Elements for a Debate

Ricardo Amigo Dürre. Universidad de Chile

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Whiteness, Animality, and Zoological Withcraft: An Introduction to Aph Ko and Syl Ko from the Global South

Berenice Vargas García, Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (ENAH) / Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Iztapalapa (UAM-I)

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Measuring Racism or Deciphering its Rationale? A Contribution from a Spanish Setting

Luca Sebastiani, Paula Martín-Godoy y Antonia Olmos-Alcaraz, Universidad de Granada, España

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Destroying the Idols of Western Modernity: Sirin Adlbi Sibai’s Decolonial Islamic Thinking

Helios F. Garcés, Investigador independiente, España

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The World-system Theory is Black and Caribbean: Capitalism and Racism in Oliver Cox’s critical thinking

Daniel Montañez Pico, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

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Racial Capitalism: The Nonobjetive Character of Capitalist Development

Cedric J. Robinson, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

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Afrodescendant studies in Latin America: racism and mestizaje

Peter Wade, University of Manchester, UK

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Reflections around Anti-Semitism

Enrique Biermann, Universidad Nacional de Colombia

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Stuart Hall on Race and Racism: Cultural Studies and the Practice of Contextualism

Lawrence Grossberg dockrock@email.unc.edu University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (USA) Abstract: Stuart Hall’s work on race cannot be separated from his work in cultural studies, and in particular, from his commitment to a radical contextualism. In this article, I argue that Stuart Hall’s work on race and racism in the context of his own long-standing […]

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“To make live and to let die”: Foucault on Racism

Eduardo Mendieta eduardo.mendieta@stonybrook.edu SUNY, Stony Brook (USA) Abstract: This article considers Foucault’s Collège de France seminar from 1975-6, entitled Il faut défendre la société, or Society must be Defended. The article does not aim to summarize the course, but rather to discern a constellation of radical departures in Foucault’s thinking. We focus on the severe […]

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Decolonization and the Decolonial Turn

Nelson Maldonado-Torres nmt@berkeley.edu University of California, Berkeley, USA Abstract: This article outlines two issues related to the decolonialization of the being and of knowledge. The first topic deals with the current validity of decolonialization, and the second one with the idea of a decolonial turn. This second topic entails the discussion about the idea of […]

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Conceptual tools for an transforming critical anti-racism

Daniel Buraschi y María-José Aguilar-Idáñez, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, España

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Human nature and race

Peter Wade peter.wade@manchester.ac.uk The University of Manchester Abstract: Most scholars argue that “race” has no relation to human nature. A minority contend that it does. I argue that “race” is a cultural category which can become an embodied part of the human experience. This embodiment helps account for the power of the idea of race. […]

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The concept of “racism” in Michel Foucault and Frantz Fanon: theorizing from the being or the nonbeing zone?

Ramón Grosfoguel grosfogu@berkeley.edu University of California, Berkeley, USA Abstract: This paper deals with the historic emergence of racism in the world-system and the definition of racism. It discusses by counterpointing Michel Foucault and Frantz Fanon’s views on racism. This paper provides a discussion on the decolonial epistemic implications of Fanon’s theory on racism. Keywords: racism, […]

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Analysing power: Foucault and the decolonial theory

Montserrat Galceran Huguet galceran@filos.ucm.es Universidad Complutense de Madrid Abstract: This work intends to relate several aspects of decolonial theory brought forward by Peruvian sociologist Aníbal Quijano, and the theses on the workings of power in contemporary societies, which were advanced by Michel Foucault. Specifically, the issue of hierarchy and heterarchy of power relations and the […]

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(De)colonial symptoms: Grosfoguel as a reader to Foucault

Diego A. Soto Morera, Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica

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To make visible what is invisibilized —Discourses from Afrodescendant institutions and African migrant in Argentina

Abstract: This research inquires for current portrayals of black, African and Afro-descendant alterities in Argentinian society, where these groups have been historically invisibilized. Here we present the results of a critical analysis of discourse in representative institutions gathering together Afro-Argentines, Afro-descendant migrants from Latin American countries, and African migrants from Sub-Saharan region, which are based in […]

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Anti-romani/anti-gypsy racism and the decolonial choice

Helios F. Garcés, Grupo Kale Amengue, España

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Anti-racism and scientific discourses for the masses (1948-1960). Reflections upon “popularization”

Ana Grondona, Conicet-Universidad de Buenos Aires

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