A Walk Down Memory Lane: Racial Injustice in Lewis Nkosi’s Mating Birds [PDF]
Using as a stepping stone Mating Birds by the late South African novelist Lewis Nkosi, I take a trip down memory lane to grapple with the issue of justice in apartheid era South Africa.
Babou Ngom, Ph.D, Mamadou Abdou
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Debunking Misconceptions [PDF]
Students will have spent much of the semester learning about the history of race in American culture from its beginnings up until 1877. This not only includes the history of slavery, but also the racialization of indigenous peoples and various groups of ...
Gonzalez, Jorge +2 more
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Błędne utożsamienie - o wątpliwym związku między sarmackim mitem etnogenetycznym a szlacheckim protorasizmem stanowym [PDF]
W najnowszej polskiej humanistyce i publicystyce stosunkowo często pada stwierdzenie, że sarmatyzm równa się rasizm. Tymczasem – jak próbuje się pokazać w artykule – w źródłowych tekstach konstytuujących sarmacki mit etnogenetyczny, czyli głównie w ...
Paweł Ryś
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Rasizm klasowy i terminy pokrewne. Próba uporządkowania pojęć [PDF]
W artykule omawia się kręgi semantyczne pojęcia rasizm klasowy (zwłaszcza w ujęciu Étienne’a Balibara i Enza Traversa) oraz zestawia się ten termin z innymi, pokrewnymi kategoriami: szlacheckim protorasizmem stanowym, dehumanizacją, rasizmem inteligencji
Paweł Wiktor Ryś
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Airs, Waters, Metals, Earth: People and Environment in Archaic and Classical Greek Thought [PDF]
This chapter provides a series of case studies that explore different ways Archaic and Classical Greeks conceptualized human diversity (modern race and/or ethnicity) in relation to environment, in particular, the land.
Rebecca Kennedy
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Race and Legitimacy in Acts 17:26: An Approach from Political Theology [PDF]
Frederick Douglass appeals to Acts 17:26 in his famous letter, "What to the slave is the Fourth of July?" He intends to gain legitimacy to his argument by citing the beliefs of his opponents, when he says, "You profess to believe 'that, of one blood, God
Adam F. Braun
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Thomas Hobbes in Racist Context [PDF]
Is it anachronistic to talk about racism in Hobbes? After all, racism is usually seen as biological: the disliked group must have innate characteristics which are inherited biologically. This is mostly said to be a modern idea.
Blau, Adrian
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From Heathen to Sub-Human: A Genealogy of the Influence of the Decline of Religion on the Rise of Modern Racism [PDF]
This essay traces a genealogy of the modern concept of race, and modern racism, in relationship to the intellectual shifts that led to the secularization of knowledge during the Renaissance and Enlightenment.
Ogunnaike, Oludamini
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Sources of empire:Negotiating history and fiction in the writing of historical IR [PDF]
In framing themselves as myth-busters, historical IR scholars have inscribed the distinction between history and fiction into how they speak to the discipline.
Costa Lopez, Julia
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Able Bodies: The Organisation of Labour and Health, 1300-1600: A Research Agenda [PDF]
One of the longer term, much-debated consequences of the outbreak of the Second Plague Pandemic in the mid-14th century, was the increased poverty and geographical mobility of labourers in Europe’s urbanised regions.
Claire Weeda
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