The Fire Now (eBook, ePUB)

Anti-Racist Scholarship in Times of Explicit Racial Violence
Redaktion: Johnson, Azeezat; Kamunge, Beth; Joseph-Salisbury, Remi

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Not so long ago, many spoke of a 'post-racial' era, claiming that advances made by people of colour showed that racial divisions were becoming a thing of the past. But the hollowness of such claims has been exposed by the rise of Trump and Brexit, both of which have revealed deep seated white resentment, and have been attended by a resurgence in hate crime and overt racial hatred on both sides of the Atlantic.

At a time when progress towards equality is not only stalling, but being actively reversed, how should anti-racist scholars respond? This collection carries on James Baldwin's legacy of bearing witness to racial violence in its many forms. Its authors address how we got to this particular moment, arguing that it can only be truly understood by placing it within the wider historical and structural contexts that normalise racism and white supremacy. Its chapters engage with a wide range of contemporary issues and debates, from the whiteness of the recent women's marches, to anti-racist education, to the question of Black resistance and intersectionality. Mapping out the problems we face, and the solutions we need, the book considers how anti-racist scholarship and activism can overcome the setbacks posed by the resurgence of white supremacy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786993823
• Artikelnr.: 54234367

Autorenporträt

Remi Joseph-Salisbury is a senior lecturer at the Carnegie School of Education, Leeds Beckett University. He is a founding member of the Critical Race and Ethnicities Network (CREN), and a Trustee for the Racial Justice Network. A committed activist, his writing has appeared in the Independent and the Voice. Azeezat Johnson is a lecturer in Human Geography at Queen Mary University of London. She completed her PhD at University of Sheffield on the clothing practices of Black Muslim women in Britain. Her research interests are focused on critical race studies, Black feminism, Muslim women and Islamophobia. Beth Kamunge is an African black-feminist and doctoral researcher in food politics, at the University of Sheffield's department of Geography.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: The Heat and the Burdens of the Day
Christina Sharpe Changing our Fate in The Fire Now
Beth Kamunge, Remi Joseph
Salisbury and Azeezat Johnson Part I: Transforming Academia 1. I Am Not a Writer
Muna Abdi 2. An Academic Witness: White Supremacy within and beyond Academia
Azeezat Johnson 3. Understanding Racism within the Academy: The Persistence of Racism within Higher Education
Jason Arday 4. Black Study
Derrais Carter 5. Confronting My Duty as an Academic: We Should All Be Activists
Remi Joseph
Salisbury Part II: Intersectional Identities, Intersectional Struggles 6. Majority Monitoring
Sai Murray 7. Crippin' Blackness: Narratives of Disabled People of Colour from Slavery to Trump
Viji Kuppan 8. Intersectionality before the Courts: The Face Veil Cases
Amal Ali 9. Colour
Blind Racism and the 2017 Women's March: White Feminism, Activism, and Lessons for the Left
Adrienne Milner and Adekonyinsola Aromolaran 10. 'The Climate Crisis is a Racist Crisis': Structural Racism, Inequality and Climate Change
Leon Sealey
Huggins Part III: Lessons from History, Connections Across Spaces 11. Beware the Northern Fox: Keeping A Focus on Systematic Racism Post Trump and Brexit
Kehinde Andrews 12. This Ain't Nothing New: Contextualising Black Responses to Trump's America
Layla Brown
Vincent 13. Understanding the Present through the Past: Struggles against Racism
Moussa Traoré 14. Fighting for Survival: Lessons from the Pan African Resistance
Tony Talburt 15. Could It Happen Here? Canada's Multicultural Oasis and Global Right Wing Drift
Sam Tecle and Carl James 16. Domesticating Trump
Keguro Macharia Part IV: Understanding and Reframing Oppression 17. Writing in the Fire Now: Beth Dialogues with Wambui and Osop
Beth Kamunge, Wambui Mwangi and Osop Abdi Ali 18. Movements Through Trauma: How to See Ourselves
Maryam Jameela 19. Fundamental British Values: Moving Towards Anti
Racist And Multicultural Education?
Sadia Habib 20. Teaching White Innocence in An Anti
Black Social Order: British Values and the Psychic Life of Coloniality
China Mills 21. 'Be Exactly Who You Are': Black Feminism in Volatile Political Realities
Kadian Pow 22. Laughter and the Politics of Place
Making
Patricia Noxolo 23. Demanding the Impossible: Responding to The Fire Now
Remi Joseph
Salisbury, Azeezat Johnson and Beth Kamunge Afterword
George Yancy