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Political Blackness, British Cinema, and the Queer Politics of Memory

Lateral, 2020
This essay queries “political Blackness” as a coalitional antiracist politics in England in the 1970s and 1980s. Contemporary debates on the relevance of political Blackness in contemporary British race politics often forget significant critiques of the ...
Ashvin Kini
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Scaling Up, Scaling Down

A Peer-Reviewed Journal About, 2023
This article explores the shifting perceptual scales of racial epistemology and anti-blackness in predictive policing technology. Following Paul Gilroy, I argue that the historical production of racism and anti-blackness has always been deeply entwined ...
Camille Crichlow
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What is Whiteness in North Africa?

Lateral, 2021
This entry sketches a matrix for conceptualizing race in/ and North Africa that takes Arabness, indigeneity, Islam, the Sahara, and slavery as orienting keywords.
Leila Tayeb
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Thaumaturgic, Cartoon Blackface

Lateral, 2021
This essay explores how a particular medium—the comic—exposes the limitations of conventional narratives about sīyāh bāzī (Persian blackface) and hājī fīrūz (a famous blackface figure).
Parisa Vaziri
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“Nay ’tis in grain, I warrant it hold colour”: The Materiality of Black in Middleton’s Black Book

E-REA, 2015
Starting with the satirical Microcynicon and flourishing in the self-referential Black Book, Thomas Middleton’s obsession with black, the colour of ink and atrabile, pervades his non-dramatic texts but also his plays, both tragic and comic. From the dyes
Chantal SCHÜTZ
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“Incommensurate Ontologies”? Anti-Black Racism and the Question of Islam in French Algeria

Lateral, 2021
In recent years, scholars and activists in France and the United States have questioned whether discrimination against Muslims constitutes a form of racism.
Muriam Haleh Davis
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Beyond anti-blackness? Engaging Black Theology and the entanglement of metaphysical brutality

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
This article explores the role of Black Theology within the context of sustained anti-blackness. It argues that anti-blackness is not only a political failure but the ontological ground of modern life.
Fabian A. Oliver
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Review of "Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures" by André Brock, Jr. (New York University Press)

Lateral, 2021
In "Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures," interdisciplinary scholar André Brock, Jr. offers a timely and powerful examination of Blackness in the digital age.
Nora Suren
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Oceanic Negroes: Communicating Pacific Blackness Down, Out, and Under

International Journal of Communication, 2021
  Blackness is its own salient racial identity within Australian discourse, in part due to colonial legacies, pan-African activism, global media, and the ongoing influence of the 1970s’ American Black Power movement. In this article, I examine Australian
Khadijah Costley White
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Black Excellence and the Curse of Ham: Debating Race and Slavery in the Islamic Tradition

ReOrient, 2019
The Curse of Ham narrative claims that Ham (the son of Noah) and his progeny were cursed by God with “blackness and slavery.” While the story can be located within Islamic literature, the tradition was refuted by numerous scholars for various reasons ...
Haroon Bashir
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