Relating Worlds of Racism Dehumanisation, Belonging, and the Normativity of European Whiteness

Preface......Page 5
 Part I: Racism and the Normativity of European Whiteness......Page 8
 Part II: Racism and the Dehumanisation of the Imagined Black......Page 11
Contents......Page 16
Contributors......Page 19
List of Figures......Page 21
Part I: Racism and the Normativity of European Whiteness......Page 22
 1: Looking for Race: Pigmented Pasts and Colonial Mentality in “Non Racial” Africa......Page 23
  New Epistemologies of Race in Africa......Page 28
  Quotidian Racial Signs and Colonial Mentality......Page 30
  Spatial Racialism......Page 33
  The Afterlives of Colonial Urban Racism......Page 37
  Mimesis and More......Page 40
  Race in the African Postcolonial Everyday......Page 41
  Quotidian Racial Lexicons......Page 45
  Conclusion......Page 48
  References......Page 54
 2: Practices “Odious Among the Northern and Western Nations of Europe”: Whiteness and Religious Freedom in the United States......Page 58
  Religious Drug Use......Page 59
  Animal Sacrifice......Page 68
  Islamic Head-Coverings......Page 72
  Conclusion......Page 77
   Court Cases......Page 79
   Books and Articles......Page 80
  Introduction......Page 82
  Creating a ‘Nation’......Page 84
  The Exodus of the Hindu......Page 86
  The Doctrine of Assimilability......Page 95
  The Plague from the East......Page 99
  Conclusion......Page 101
  References......Page 105
  Introduction......Page 107
  Conventional Ideologies of Indigeneity and Blackness......Page 108
  Culture Based Indigeneity......Page 112
  Indigenous Articulation: We Gullah!......Page 116
  Plantation Culture: Imaginaries of Blackness......Page 120
  Conclusion: Inscripted Landscapes......Page 124
  References......Page 126
  Introduction......Page 130
  Legacies of Soviet Modernity in Russian and East European Practices of Race......Page 133
  Race Governance in the Baltic States......Page 139
  Race and Racism in Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova......Page 143
  Racialised Modernities in the Southern Caucasus......Page 146
  Polyracism......Page 148
  Conclusion......Page 151
  References......Page 153
 6: Mestizaje: The All-Inclusive Fiction......Page 157
  Castas in Colonial Mexico......Page 159
  Castas in Contemporary Mexico......Page 165
   De castiza con indio, coyote......Page 168
   El zapoteco......Page 170
   El mazahua y los peregrinos......Page 171
  Conclusion......Page 174
  References......Page 177
 7: Managing Racism on the Field in Australian Junior Sport......Page 181
  Introduction......Page 182
  Understanding Contemporary Racism in Australia......Page 183
  Racism in Sport......Page 185
  Methods......Page 188
   Processes for Managing Racial Abuse......Page 189
   Racial Abuse as a Legitimate Tactic......Page 196
   Backlash, Singling Out and Scapegoating of Victims......Page 197
  Discussion......Page 199
  Conclusion......Page 201
  References......Page 202
  Introduction......Page 206
  Polish Migration to Britain......Page 207
  Polish Migration to Spain......Page 209
  Race, Racism and Whiteness......Page 210
   I’m White Until I Start Speaking......Page 215
   I Am His Slave …This Time I Am Black and He Is White......Page 218
   White Youth Hostility Towards Poles......Page 220
   Being with a Black Partner and a Mother of a Mixed-Race Child......Page 221
   If You Are White from Poland … They [Blacks]Listen to You......Page 222
   Eastern European Others......Page 224
   You Are Ours......Page 225
  Conclusions......Page 226
  References......Page 229
Part II: Racism and the Dehumanisation of the Imagined Black......Page 235
 9: Black Is Not Beautiful: The German Myth of Race......Page 236
  References......Page 253
  Introduction......Page 258
  Apartheid Under International Law......Page 259
  The Category of “Race” in South Africa and Palestine......Page 262
  The Role of Settler-Colonialism in the Construction of South African Apartheid and Zionist Rule in Israel......Page 265
  Spatial Separation in South Africa and Israel......Page 268
  Labour and the Project of Apartheid in South Africa and Zionism in Israel......Page 270
  Challenging Apartheid: Local Responses in South Africa and Israel......Page 273
  Conclusion......Page 274
  References......Page 280
 11: Gaza, Black Face and Islamophobia: Intersectionality of Race and Gender in (Counter-) Discourse in the Netherlands......Page 283
  Gaza, Islamophobia and Really Dutch......Page 287
  Black Face, Denied Racism and National Exclusion......Page 290
  The F-Word, Intersectionality and Uneasy Unity......Page 296
  Conclusion......Page 300
  References......Page 307
  Introduction......Page 311
   What Is Grime?......Page 312
  Grime’s Rise......Page 313
   Binary......Page 314
   Knowledge Power Respect......Page 315
   Navigation......Page 319
   Racism and Authenticity......Page 320
   Commercial (Sell Out)......Page 321
  Identity and Culture......Page 323
   Sonic Explorers and Consumption......Page 325
  White Visibility, Culture and Lacking......Page 327
   Policing the Boundary: Don’t Eat Me!......Page 329
   Options......Page 330
  Conclusion......Page 331
  References......Page 334
  Introduction: “How Do ‘We’ Look”? (Young 2000, 416)......Page 340
  Black Women in Their Body … in Theory......Page 344
  Captive-ating Bodies: Performance Anxiety and Embodied Resistance......Page 346
   Serena Williams: Can You Be a Black Woman and Look Like This?......Page 348
   Brittney Griner: Exposed! To Be Young, Black, Gifted, and Gay......Page 352
   Living Out Loud......Page 357
  Black Female Athletes in Defence of Themselves......Page 358
  Closing Remarks: Black Female Athletes’ Enduring Struggle for Freedom......Page 359
  References......Page 362
 14: The Emergence of Race as a Social Category in Northern Europe......Page 367
  Nordic Involvements in Race Biology......Page 368
  The Increase of Populist Politics and Racist Rhetoric in the 2000s......Page 371
  Different Fields of Anti-racism......Page 374
  Online and in the Streets......Page 378
  Conclusions: The Politics of Naming Racialized Relations......Page 383
  References......Page 387
 15: Peripheralised in the Periphery: Migration, Deportation, and Detainment in Ireland and Spain......Page 392
  Migration, Peripheral “European-ness” and the Human Rights Economy......Page 397
  Peripheralisation Through Detention......Page 403
  Fast Tracks and Hot Returns......Page 408
  Conclusion: The Price of Whiteness Is the Cost of Blackness......Page 411
  References......Page 412
 16: Blackness and Racial Mixture in Portland, Oregon and Esmeraldas, Ecuador......Page 420
   Portland, Oregon......Page 422
   Esmeraldas, Ecuador......Page 426
   Esmeraldas......Page 428
   Portland, Oregon......Page 435
  Discussion......Page 439
  References......Page 442
Index......Page 446