Book review of Hübinette, Tobias. 2024. Svenska Asiater: Asiatisk rasism och framväxten av en ny minoritet [Asian Swedes: Asian racism and the emergence of a new minority]. Stockholm: Verbal. 287 pp.
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Tag: race
Book Review of Keskinen, Suvi. 2022. Mobilising the Racialised ‘others’: Postethnic Activism, Neoliberalisation and Racial Politics. London: Routledge. 164 pp.
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Mother of All Labour: Vulnerability and Immunity in Times of Ebola
Wonkifong Ebola treatment unit was unique at the time of the outbreak that hit the Guinea in 2014. Contrary to other infrastructures run by Western workers, Wonkifong mainly employed personnel from Guinea, the Democratic Republic of Congo, a…
Mother of All Labour: Vulnerability and Immunity in Times of Ebola
Wonkifong Ebola treatment unit was unique at the time of the outbreak that hit the Guinea in 2014. Contrary to other infrastructures run by Western workers, Wonkifong mainly employed personnel from Guinea, the Democratic Republic of Congo, a…
Politics of Race, Belonging and Community in Yeboyah’s music video ‘Elovena’
The Elovena maiden is, for some, one of the most important cultural symbols of the Finnish identity. This character has traditionally been portrayed as a blond, blue-eyed white woman and repeatedly used in artistic and commercial contexts. I…
White Liberalism and Black Consciousness in Rosie Motene’s Reclaiming the Soil (2018)
by Rodwell Makombe Abstract White liberal gestures of kindness such as interventions to alleviate poverty in black communities are often seen as altruistic initiatives with noble intentions. However, in recent years, these interventions have come under greater scrutiny as scholars question the “white savior mentality” that often frames and propels such initiatives. In fact, contemporary […]
Guess who did the crime?: The Facial Composite Game
By Eliseo Ortiz (University of Colorado Boulder) In 1878, British psychologist Francis Galton wrote about the significance of photography in policing and incarcerating populations. Together with the famous jailer Edmund Du Cane, Galton investigated cri…
Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire
Reviewed by Dylan Lackey, Global Center for Advanced Studies Jack Halberstam. Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020. 219 pages. On the other side of interpellation, where the hail does not reach, where the call is unh…
Introduction / Issue 31: Black Studies Now and the Countercurrents of Hazel Carby
Jump to Table of Contents by Joel Burges, Alisa V. Prince, and Jeffrey Allen Tucker Featured image: Ellen Gallagher, Bird in Hand, 2006. © Ellen Gallagher. Image © Tate. She was dismayed when she realized that what she wanted to imagine, what she was s…
On Needing Black Studies
By Kathryn A. Mariner Featured Image: Protest at RPD, Rochester NY, May 2020, Copyright Erica Jae. As I was preparing comments for this roundtable toward the end of 2018, I felt a bit like an interloper because I realized I had never—at least in my for…
Us, THEM, and High-Risk Dancing
By Tiffany E. Barber In darkness, a live, punk-influenced sound score saturates a converted sixty-nine-seat black box theater in New York’s Lower East Side. The source: electric guitarist Chris Cochrane positioned upstage right.1 Upstage left, a spotli…