Racism and Racial Surveillance (eBook, ePUB)

Modernity Matters
Redaktion: Khan, Sheila; Machado, Helena; Can, Nazir Ahmed

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Based on the premise that the project of Western Modernity is a structuring element of our societies, Racism and Racial Surveillance explores in detail its legacies of coloniality and racialization that interfere in a subtle and perverse way in the current social, cultural and political systems.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000457155
• Artikelnr.: 62471524

Autorenporträt

Sheila Khan is Integrated Researcher at Communication and Society Research Centre, University of Minho, Portugal. Nazir Ahmed Can is Professor at the Faculty of Translation and Interpretation at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona / Serra Húnter Fellow. Helena Machado is Full Professor of Sociology and Dean of the Institute for Social Sciences, University of Minho, Portugal.

Inhaltsangabe

PART 1
1. Introduction
2. Empire and literature: from the schism of race to the seism of the
"other"
3. Breaking the complicity between the aesthetic device and the colonial
device: Afro-Brazilian art, Afro-descendant black art
4. Black modernities, social memory and experiences of insubordination
5. Cape Verde, Brazil and Portugal: dubious Atlantic triangulantions
6. "Look how beautiful we are"
"Negro" and negritude avatars in the islands of the south-western Indian
Ocean: Hybridity and "racialised" thinking
7. Insidious Invisibilities: World-Literature, 'Race', and Resistance
PART 2
8. Postcolonial Racial Surveillance through Forensic Genetics
9. Politics of (Non)Belonging: Enacting Imaginaries of Affected Publics
Through Forensic Genetic Technologies
10. The (re)invocation of race in forensic genetics through forensic DNA
phenotyping technology