Racism and Racial Surveillance: Modernity Matters

ISBN-13: 9781032109022 / Angielski

Sheila Khan; Nazir Ahmed Can; Helena Machado

Opis

Based on the premise that the project of Western Modernity is a structuring element of our societies, Racism and Racial Surveillance explores in detail its legacies of coloniality and racialization that interfere in a subtle and perverse way in the current social, cultural and political systems.

Guided by an interdisciplinary methodology, the various contributions privilege historical contexts of colonial formation and offer a thorough and intersectional analysis on the specters of coloniality in the upsurge of racism, surveillance, and criminalization, as well as the presence of the phantom of the race in spaces of knowledge production such as that of artistic field, forensic genetics and criminal identification.

Drawing on multi case studies the book then proffers key concepts and historical background that will be of interest to researchers, students and professionals in a broad range of areas of social sciences and humanities research, including fields such as criminology and policing, science and technology studies, arts studies, literary studies, race and ethnic studies and, finally, memory studies.

Chapters 8, 9 and 10 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Spis treści

PART 1

1. Introduction

2. Empire and literature: from the schism of race to the seism of the "other"

3. Breaking the complicity between the aesthetic device and the colonial device: Afro-Brazilian art, Afro-descendant black art

4. Black modernities, social memory and experiences of insubordination

5. Cape Verde, Brazil and Portugal: dubious Atlantic triangulantions

6. "Look how beautiful we are"
"Negro" and negritude avatars in the islands of the south-western Indian Ocean: Hybridity and "racialised" thinking

7. Insidious Invisibilities: World-Literature, ‘Race’, and Resistance

PART 2

8. Postcolonial Racial Surveillance through Forensic Genetics

9. Politics of (Non)Belonging: Enacting Imaginaries of Affected Publics Through Forensic Genetic Technologies

10. The (re)invocation of race in forensic genetics through forensic DNA phenotyping technology

O autorze

Sheila Khan is Integrated Researcher at Communication and Society Research Centre, University of Minho, Portugal.

Nazir Ahmed Can is Professor at the Faculty of Translation and Interpretation at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona / Serra Húnter Fellow.

Helena Machado is Full Professor of Sociology and Dean of the Institute for Social Sciences, University of Minho, Portugal.