The Fire Now: Anti-Racist Scholarship in Times of Explicit Racial Violence

ISBN-13: 9781786993809 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 304 str.

Remi Joseph-Salisbury; Azeezat Johnson; Beth Kamunge

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Bringing together some of the UK's leading scholars on race, this collection reframes anti-racist scholarship and activism for a new era by contributing a much-needed British angle to the US-led body of work on whiteness, anti-racist education, black queer studies and intersectionality.

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Foreword: The Heat and the Burdens of the Day - Christina Sharpe Changing our Fate in The Fire Now - Beth Kamunge, Remi Joseph-Salisbury and Azeezat Johnson Part I: Transforming Academia 1. I Am Not a Writer - Muna Abdi 2. An Academic Witness: White Supremacy within and beyond Academia - Azeezat Johnson 3. Understanding Racism within the Academy: The Persistence of Racism within Higher Education - Jason Arday 4. Black Study - Derrais Carter 5. Confronting My Duty as an Academic: We Should All Be Activists - Remi Joseph-Salisbury Part II: Intersectional Identities, Intersectional Struggles 6. Majority Monitoring - Sai Murray 7. Crippin’ Blackness: Narratives of Disabled People of Colour from Slavery to Trump - Viji Kuppan 8. Intersectionality before the Courts: The Face Veil Cases - Amal Ali 9. Colour-Blind Racism and the 2017 Women’s March: White Feminism, Activism, and Lessons for the Left - Adrienne Milner and Adekonyinsola Aromolaran 10. ‘The Climate Crisis is a Racist Crisis’: Structural Racism, Inequality and Climate Change - Leon Sealey-Huggins Part III: Lessons from History, Connections Across Spaces 11. Beware the Northern Fox: Keeping A Focus on Systematic Racism Post Trump and Brexit - Kehinde Andrews 12. This Ain’t Nothing New: Contextualising Black Responses to Trump’s America - Layla Brown-Vincent 13. Understanding the Present through the Past: Struggles against Racism - Moussa Traoré 14. Fighting for Survival: Lessons from the Pan African Resistance - Tony Talburt 15. Could It Happen Here? Canada’s Multicultural Oasis and Global Right Wing Drift - Sam Tecle and Carl James 16. Domesticating Trump - Keguro Macharia Part IV: Understanding and Reframing Oppression 17. Writing in the Fire Now: Beth Dialogues with Wambui and Osop - Beth Kamunge, Wambui Mwangi and Osop Abdi Ali 18. Movements Through Trauma: How to See Ourselves - Maryam Jameela 19. Fundamental British Values: Moving Towards Anti-Racist And Multicultural Education? - Sadia Habib 20. Teaching White Innocence in An Anti-Black Social Order: British Values and the Psychic Life of Coloniality - China Mills 21. 'Be Exactly Who You Are': Black Feminism in Volatile Political Realities - Kadian Pow 22. Laughter and the Politics of Place-Making - Patricia Noxolo 23. Demanding the Impossible: Responding to The Fire Now - Remi Joseph-Salisbury, Azeezat Johnson and Beth Kamunge Afterword - George Yancy