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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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At the Nexus of Neoliberalism, Mass Incarceration, and Scientific Racism: the Conflation of Blackness with Risk in the 21st century [PDF]

, 2020
This paper examines how the systems of power of neoliberalism, scientific racism, and mass incarceration intersect to construct and uphold the image of “black criminality” and “blackness as a risk” to society.
Sailors, Olivia C
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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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“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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“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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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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Connecting Black Holes and Black Strings [PDF]

Physical Review Letters, 2005
Static vacuum spacetimes with one compact dimension include black holes with localised horizons but also uniform and non-uniform black strings where the horizon wraps over the compact dimension. We present new numerical solutions for these localised black holes in 5 and 6-dimensions.
Kudoh, Hideaki, Wiseman, Toby
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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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Reading Blackness as a Rhizome with Toni Morrison’s Preface to The Black Book

Radical Teacher
This teaching note proposes the teaching of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s concept of the rhizome in conversation with the marginalization of certain communities and their liberation from oppressive narratives and structures.
Laboni Mukherjee
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