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The division of the races, created for the economic and political purposes of justifying slavery and colonialism, is a deep, entrenched, social structure which creates and promotes white privilege and is one within which we all live. No one can be free from it. This presentation is rooted in the assumption that the problem of racism today is a problem of whiteness and that it is an examination of this construct, therefore, which needs to be central to seeking a solution to this destructive dynamic. The work required of whiteness and the letting go of privilege is essential if we are to dismantle the system of racism that is so embedded within our society. I argue this is no altruistic endeavour but that, whilst clearly doing untold harm to people of colour, such a system also limits and distorts the development and individuation of white individuals and the society in which we are citizens. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Through a narrativization that connects heterogeneous and often undetected social lives in Bogotá, Colombia, this article charts the rhizomatic spatial crossings of continuously mobile urban trajectories, the often-unsettled forms of dwelling that they inhabit, and their capacity to make place despite the dismantling of community cohesion and the necropolitical forms of urbanity operated by racial capitalism and coloniality across Latin America – what the article refers to as relational territories, drawing on a rich scholarship on Black Geographies of the everyday and Latin American ‘territorios’. From there, the article explores how paths are being charted out of the racial-colonial maze of Latin America’s city-making, through multiple forms of ordinary resistance/re-existence that create life in the interstices of ongoing necro-politics . Ultimately, the article shows how this pluralistic repertoire mobilized from the urban margins not only points to the difficulties of emplacement for Afro-descendant dwellers in Latin American cities but also to the possibility of respatialising the urban from the decolonial relationality of Améfrica. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

FR. Cet article s’intéresse au vécu dans les rédactions de journalistes qui appartiennent à des groupes minorisés. Soixante-et-un entretiens ont été réalisés auprès de journalistes LGBTQI et de journaliste racisé·es et témoignent des difficultés et atteintes sociales qu’ils et elles rencontrent au quotidien. Il apparaît en particulier qu’ils et elles se heurtent fréquemment à des assignations à l'engagement militant et à une présomption de partialité. Leurs collègues et leur encadrement remettent ainsi régulièrement en question leur objectivité et leur capacité à couvrir des sujets de manière neutre. L’enquête s’attache à expliciter la nature de ces assignations à l’engagement -qui se mêlent bien souvent à des discours professionnels- ainsi que leurs effets sur les journalistes qui en sont victimes. Face à ces assignations, souvent vécues par les journalistes comme des formes de violence, trois grandes stratégies de résistance ont été identifiées. Une première stratégie voit certains journalistes tenter convertir ces assignations à l’engagement en une preuve d’expertise sur certaines thématiques, en acceptant et en transformant les assignations pour en tirer profit. Une seconde stratégie cherche à renverser l’accusation de partialité en mobilisant des discours professionnels autour d’une maîtrise approfondie de la déontologie, qui devient alors un argument de défense. Enfin, une troisième stratégie consiste à questionner les fondements épistémologiques du journalisme pour invalider les reproches formulés, grâce à un discours critique sur les normes journalistiques et la défense de pratiques professionnelles plus inclusives. Cette étude met ainsi lumière toute l’ambiguïté des discours de valorisation de la « diversité » dans le journalisme tenus depuis le milieu des années 2000, qui ont réduit le problème à un manque de représentativité et de présence de journalistes concerné.es dans les rédactions, sans questionner les dynamiques de pouvoir toujours très fortes au sein de la profession. *** EN. This article examines the newsroom experience of journalists who belong to minority groups. Sixty-one interviews were carried out with LGBTQI and racialized journalists, revealing the difficulties and social offences they encounter on a daily basis, and more specifically, the frequent challenge of both being assigned to playing the part of activists, and facing the presumption of being biased. Their colleagues and managers regularly question their objectivity and their ability to cover issues in a neutral manner. This study sets out to explain the nature of these activist assignments - which are often mixed with professional discourse - and their effects on the journalists who are subjected to them. To counter such imputations, often experienced by journalists as forms of violence, three main strategies of resistance have been identified. The first strategy developed by journalists consists in attempting to convert these imputations to activism into a demonstration of their expertise on certain topics, hence accepting and transforming the imputation to their own benefit. A second strategy aims to reverse the accusation of bias by mobilizing a professional discourse on the thorough mastery of deontology, upheld as a defense argument. Finally, a third strategy involves questioning the epistemological foundations of journalism to invalidate the reproaches formulated through a critical discourse on journalistic norms and the promotion of more inclusive professional practices. This study hence highlights the strong ambiguity of the promotion of “diversity” rhetoric which emerged in the field of journalism since the mid-2000’s: confining the problem to a lack of representativeness and presence of minority journalists in the newsrooms, the power dynamics still at play within the profession have been left unquestioned. *** PT. Este artigo discute as experiências de jornalistas de grupos minoritários dentro das redações. Foram realizadas 61 entrevistas com jornalistas LGBTQI e racializados/as, evidenciando as dificuldades e agressões sociais enfrentadas diariamente por essas pessoas. Observa-se, especialmente, que muitas vezes são cobradas a exercer seu engajamento militante e são suspeitas de falta de isenção. Seus colegas e superiores questionam regularmente sua objetividade e capacidade de cobrir determinadas pautas de forma neutra. O estudo busca analisar a natureza dessa cobrança de engajamento – que muitas vezes vem misturada com discursos profissionais – e seus efeitos sobre os/as jornalistas atingidos/as. Em face dessas cobranças, geralmente experimentadas pelos jornalistas como uma forma de violência, foram identificadas três grandes estratégias de resistência. A primeira estratégia consiste na tentativa de converter essas imputações ao ativismo numa demonstração de sua especialização em determinados assuntos, aceitando e transformando a imputação em seu próprio benefício. Uma segunda estratégia busca reverter a acusação de parcialidade, utilizando-se do discurso profissional sobre o domínio aprofundado da ética jornalística, que passa a ser um argumento de defesa. Finalmente, uma terceira estratégia é questionar os fundamentos epistemológicos do jornalismo de modo a invalidar as críticas apresentadas, por meio de um discurso crítico em relação aos padrões jornalísticos e da defesa de práticas profissionais mais inclusivas. O estudo demonstra a ambiguidade do discurso de valorização da “diversidade” no jornalismo, adotado a partir de meados dos anos 2000, que vem reduzindo essa questão à falta de representatividade e da presença de jornalistas de grupos minoritários nas redações, sem questionar as dinâmicas de poder que ainda prevalecem na profissão. *** ES. Este artículo analiza las experiencias de periodistas pertenecientes a grupos minoritarios en las redacciones. Se realizaron sesenta y una entrevistas a periodistas LGBTQI y racializadas/os, que describen las dificultades y los prejuicios sociales que encuentran a diario. En particular se evidencia que se enfrentan con frecuencia a llamamientos al compromiso militante y a presunciones de parcialidad. Sus colegas y dirigencia cuestionan regularmente su objetividad y su capacidad para cubrir los temas de forma neutral. El estudio se propone explicar la naturaleza de estos llamamientos al compromiso ―que muy a menudo se mezclan con el discurso profesional― y sus efectos en las/os periodistas que las sufren. Ante estos llamamientos, que a menudo son vividos por las/os periodistas como formas de violencia, se han identificado tres estrategias principales de resistencia. En la primera estrategia, algunas/os periodistas intentan convertir estos llamamientos al compromiso en evidencias de su pericia sobre determinados temas, aceptando y transformándolos para sacarles provecho. Una segunda estrategia pretende revertir la acusación de parcialidad, movilizando el discurso profesional en torno a un dominio profundo de la ética, que se convierte entonces en argumento de defensa. Por último, una tercera estrategia consiste en cuestionar los fundamentos epistemológicos del periodismo para invalidar las críticas formuladas, mediante un discurso crítico sobre las normas periodísticas y la defensa de prácticas profesionales más integradoras. Este estudio pone de relieve la ambigüedad de los discursos de valoración de la “diversidad” en el periodismo empleados desde mediados de la primera década del siglo XXI, que han reducido el problema a una falta de representatividad y de presencia de las/os periodistas afectadas/os en las redacciones, sin cuestionar las dinámicas de poder que siguen preponderando en el seno de la profesión. ***

Les jeunes lesbiennes, gais, bisexuel·les, trans, queers, bispirituel·les ou autres (LGBTQ2+) vivent davantage d’instabilité résidentielle que les jeunes cishétérosexuel·les. Si ce constat est bien connu, la variation des expériences d’instabilité résidentielle au sein des jeunes LGBTQ2+ reste moins documentée. Cet article présente une démarche intersectionnelle quantitative pour explorer les variations dans le vécu d’instabilité résidentielle auprès d’un échantillon pancanadien en ligne de 2266 jeunes LGBTQ2+ âgé·es de 15 à 29 ans. Les modèles de régression logistique réalisés sur les croisements du groupe racial avec l’identité de genre ou l’orientation sexuelle révèlent que les positions minorisées sur les axes du sexisme, du cissexisme, du monosexisme, du binarisme de genre et du racisme/colonialisme étaient davantage associées à un vécu d’instabilité résidentielle. Ainsi, les jeunes trans autochtones et les jeunes pansexuel·les autochtones étaient les plus susceptibles d’avoir vécu de l’instabilité résidentielle, alors que les hommes cisgenres blancs et les jeunes monosexuel·les blanc·hes l’étaient le moins. Aucun effet d’interaction multiplicative et additive n’a été observé lors de combinaisons d’un groupe racial avec une identité de genre ou une orientation sexuelle, suggérant que les impacts individuels de ces positions sociales sur le vécu d’instabilité résidentielle ont tendance à se cumuler sans toutefois s’influencer mutuellement. Ces résultats comblent une lacune dans les écrits scientifiques et peuvent informer les instances décisionnelles afin de prévenir l’instabilité résidentielle chez les jeunes LGBTQ2+.

I de seneste år har sorte forskere og kunstnere arbejdet for at etablere kritiske studier i sorthed som et forskningsfelt i dansk og nordisk kunst- og kulturforskning. Men det er ikke bare sorte og racialt minoriserede forskere, som skriver om sorthed. I 2023 udgav den hvide danske litteraturkritiker Klaus Rothstein Den sorte mand. Racisme, woke og hvidhed i dansk litteratur, som undersøger sortheden som motiv i dansk litteratur fra 1700-tallet til i dag. I denne artikel foretager vi en nærlæsning af, hvordan begreber som antisort racisme, antiracisme og wokeness operationaliseres i bogens analyser. Vores læsning viser, hvordan Rothsteins ”bevidning” og reproduktion af antisort racisme muliggør konstruktion af en hvid liberal, ikkeracistisk udsigelsesposition, som er kendetegnet af en dyb skepsis over for kontemporære former for antiracisme, der både fremskrives som farlige og ødelæggende. Vi argumenterer for, at Den sorte mand skriver sig ind i en bredere politisk anti-wokeness-tendens, som har vundet stærkt fodfæste i både den danske og den norske offentlighed i de seneste år. Vores analyse viser, hvordan normalisering og intellektualisering af anti-wokeness bidrager til delegitimering af forskning i sorthed og antiracisme og i sig selv kan forstås som en rekonfiguration af en lang tradition for at normalisere og uskyldiggøre antisort racisme i Danmark og Norden.

This study examined the everyday experiences of racism among Chinese immigrants in Canada. Data came from nine virtual focus groups comprising 48 participants of diverse genders and ages taking place in December 2021 and January 2022. We conducted our qualitative analysis by drawing on Essed’s conceptualization of everyday racism and Crenshaw’s conceptualization of intersectionality. Thematic and content analysis showed that racism against Chinese immigrants is more pervasive than previously recognized. Three-quarters of the participants disclosed instances of racism across various settings, including workplaces, schools, shops, airports, banks, hotels, restaurants, streets, and online. Some gender and age groups reported more incidents than others. Young men, on average, encountered the greatest number, followed by young and middle-aged women, while older men reported the fewest. Types of racist incidents also varied by age and gender. Young and middle-aged women encountered unsolicited intimate remarks and racism related to gender division of labour, while older adults, both men and women, faced racism associated with service provision. Younger men reported online racism. Some older participants remained unaware of the racist nature of their encounters, and middle-aged and older men tended to deny having experienced racist encounters. Given these findings, we suggest the need to raise awareness, establish empowerment initiatives, and adopt intersectionality approaches to address and combat racism against Chinese immigrants in Canada. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Chinese Immigration Act, 1923, also known as the Chinese Exclusion Act, banned the entry of Chinese people to Canada and required all Chinese in Canada, including the Canadian born, to register with the government. The act devastated Chinese Canadian lives and communities. This paper applies two of Hannah Arendt’s insights into the social organization of totalitarianism to understand how anti-Chinese racism has been structured. Focusing on the discourse of Asian/Chinese exclusion in the Canadian House of Commons and Senate in 1922 and 1923, the paper shows that the idea of Chinese exclusion was closely linked to the white supremacist vision of Canada that its land and resources were and should be the monopoly of people of European origins. As such, anti-Chinese racism was not just an ideology, or individual prejudices or ignorance, but it was a social structure that was integral to the making of the country, and whose invention can be traced historically. The historical activity of the Chinese in trying to stop the passing of the act brings the functioning of this social structure into sharp relief. The consequences of this structure continue today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, studies have emerged to address either racism or women's issues. Studies that address the intersection of pandemic racism and sexism are lacking and the experiences of Asian women have been neglected. Drawing on interviews with 20 Asian women living in Victoria, Australia, this article aims to bridge the gap between studies of pandemic racism and the issues women faced during the pandemic. The article's intervention is threefold, we ask: first, how have Asian women in Australia experienced racism? Second, how have their experiences of racism intersected with sexism? Third, how do they make sense of their experiences and thoughts about the future? Our analysis argues three points: first, the lack of attention to Asian women's experiences of racism obscures the fact that Asian women can encounter racism more than their male counterparts. Second, the lack of attention to how sexism intersects with Asian women's experiences of racism causes them the inability to make sense of their experiences and prevents them from stopping mistreatment. Third, participants' reflections show that there is potential for women of colour in general to form coalitions based on sharing intersectionality and offer valuable insights for feminist and antiracist studies and initiatives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dany Laferrière has demonstrated a continuous engagement with Japan, beginning with the novel Éroshima in 1987 and continuing to his most recent publication in 2021, Sur la route avec Bashō. The aim of this article is to understand what role Japan plays within Laferrière's writing and how it helps us understand the complex network of sex, power, and race in his work. Between the cosmopolitanism of the network of nation-states and the despair of identity politics, I situate Laferrière's use of Japan as a fantasy that empowers the writer beyond the impasse of a white-black racial imaginary. Reading Laferrière this way allows us to understand how his writing uses the fantasy of the Orient, often to the detriment of Asian women. As such it contributes to comparative work between Asian and French literatures, debates in Francophonie, and critical understandings of race in the Francophone sphere of the Americas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In The Devil Finds Work (1976), James Baldwin presents a remarkably generous review of Boris Vian's controversial novel, J'irai cracher sur vos tombes (1946). Vian's book was exceptionally sensitive to the "rage and pain" of African Americans, Baldwin thought. Baldwin's words seem surprising today: Vian, a white Frenchman, published the work as a protest novel under the false identity of a fictional African American, whom he called Vernon Sullivan. The novel was a hoax, a prank. J'irai cracher sur vos tombes tends to be viewed today in North America, rightly, as an egregious instance of cultural appropriation. The present study argues, however, that the French pastiche of a Black American protest novel baited the reading public into a debate that ignored racism, colonialism, and protest. We argue to view J'irai cracher sur vos tombes and the ensuing scandal it provoked, as an historical archive that allows us to chart a certain ideological climate in France. The public reception of the novel makes abundantly clear that, on the subject of J'irai cracher, Paris wanted to talk about sex, youth morality, and the threats of American cultural hegemony—not racism. Read as an historical affaire, the scandal exposes an extended moment of collective blindness in France. When examined as an historical incident, "the J'irai cracher Affair" reads like a dramatic ironic pronouncement, as if Vian were making a joke only he and a select audience—Baldwin, for one—would understand. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article opens with autobiographical reflections outlining how the author came to study the histories of race, racism, and whiteness in Canada; namely, through a biographical examination of Canadian academic and public intellectual Watson Kirkconnell. The article then discusses the author's engagement with the scant Canadian literature on race science/scientific racism. After defining whiteness and discussing its relationships with gender and class, the article provides suggestions for future research on race and whiteness in Canada; in particular, the need for definitional, temporal, and geographical specificity; the need for original archival research and collaboration with archivists; and the importance of biographical research. Drawing connections between the past and present, the article concludes by stressing the importance of this research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Taking the societal climate surrounding issues of race and racism in the study of the past as my point of departure, I propose to examine how it translates into the practice of French-language historiography of Canadian and Quebecois societies. Do disciplinary institutions publish on issues of race and racism? This study also responds to historian Geneviève Dorais' arguments in the Bulletin d'histoire politique in 2020 about anti-Black racism in Quebec historiography, and to the call by historians Crystal Gail Fraser and Allyson Stevenson for a critical perspective on our discipline in the post-Truth and Reconciliation Commission era. This paper consists of four sections. I first sketch out some definitions related to the concepts of race, racism, and ignorance. I then turn to the relationship these questions have with historical epistemology and the role that the discipline of history has played in the history of racism. In the third section, I present the results of my research on francophone-Canadian historical knowledge production in the past few years, which asked the following questions: Is the concept of race present in this disciplinary field? In what way is it used? Finally, I conclude by returning to the results of this study and reflect on what a better understanding of the critical concept of race in historical studies can contribute to our understanding of Quebec and Canada's past. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Racisms are among the social structures that shaped Canada's past and are shaping Canada's present. Anti-essentialist antiracism accounts for these structures by recognizing that there are many different racisms, but all racisms meet conditions of racialization, of the organization of racializations into exclusions, and of the enactment of negative consequences on the excluded. These conditions lead to strategies for antiracist research, which are key to rebuilding the linkages between people that racisms destroy. This paper builds a theoretically informed argument while examining the historical and present-day experiences of Chinese Canadians. Engaging with present-day realities, moving beyond common-sense explanations that individualize racism, and building on the sources of the racialized and excluded make evident the structure of racism. Chinese language sources document the "apartheiding" of Canada and its effects. They also enable the dialogical re-reading of dominant sources to pinpoint moments of organizing this structure into the world. Today, historically produced cultural narratives and the cultural landscapes of modern cities mark those racialized as Chinese as people who either do not belong or whose presence needs explanation. These narratives and landscapes are the products of the anti-Chinese racism that was built into the settler colonialism that made Canada. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The challenges faced by teachers in Mathematics teaching are perceptible, with regard to students' interest in the subject and students' understanding of mathematical concepts. The justification for this work is given by the need to think about new possibilities for teaching mathematics, so that there is the development of critical and democratic thinking by the students. The question posed is: will the contextualization of mathematical concepts through soccer using technological resources contribute to a better understanding of the content being taught? The general aim of this article is to develop the construction of knowledge of statistics and percentage content through the lens of Critical Mathematics Education, contextualizing the ongoing challenge of combating racism in soccer. Discussing topics such as the history of Brazilian soccer in parallel with the fight against racism in mathematics classes is of paramount importance so that we can form critical and reflective citizens, thus being able to transform the society in which we live. It is hoped that the activities proposed here will make math teaching more meaningful for students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Denne artikel skærper indsigterne fra bogen Racism in Danish Welfare Work with Refugees – Troubled by Difference, Docility and Dignity (2022) ved at stille skarpt på bogens teoretiske bidrag med omdrejningspunkt i begrebet velfærdsracisme. Med udgangspunkt i korte beskrivelser af bogens teoretisk-analytiske tilgang, empiriske materiale og analytiske arbejde, udfolder artiklen, hvordan velfærdsracisme kan forstås som næret af en integrationistisk epistemologi i velfærdsarbejdet i form af de racialt kodede grundkategorier udvikling, menneske, samfund og professionalisme; som historisk rekursivitet i kraft af de moderne spøgelser forskel, føjelighed og værdighed, der til stadighed dukker op i velfærdsarbejdet med flygtninge; og som udtrykt i velfærdsarbejdets standardfortællinger om farveblindhed, potentialisering og medfølelse, som velfærdsarbejderne igennem deres arbejde kontinuerligt investerer i, hvorved sociale grænser for menneske og samfund patruljeres og den integrationistiske epistemologi institutionaliseres. På denne baggrund konkluderer vi, at velfærdsracismen forhindrer velfærdsarbejdets universelle realisering.

The division of the races, created for the economic and political purposes of justifying slavery and colonialism, is a deep, entrenched, social structure which creates and promotes white privilege and is one within which we all live. No one can be free from it. This presentation is rooted in the assumption that the problem of racism today is a problem of whiteness and that it is an examination of this construct, therefore, which needs to be central to seeking a solution to this destructive dynamic. The work required of whiteness and the letting go of privilege is essential if we are to dismantle the system of racism that is so embedded within our society. I argue this is no altruistic endeavour but that, whilst clearly doing untold harm to people of colour, such a system also limits and distorts the development and individuation of white individuals and the society in which we are citizens., (© 2024 The Society of Analytical Psychology.)