Category Archives: Colonialism

Africa Is A Country

By SindreDecember 5, 2018'Race', Achille Mbembe, Anthropology, Apartheid, Cameroon, Colonialism, Cultural racism, Decolonization, Far right, Frantz Fanon, Nationalism, Nazism, Neo-liberalism, Neo-racism, Norway, Paul Gilroy, Political liberalism, Populism, Postcolonialism, Public sphere, Racism, South Africa, The Black Atlantic, USA, W. E. B. Du Bois, Xenophobia

My essay on Prof Achille Mbembe, Frantz Fanon and Mbembe’s ‘Critique of Black Reason’ (Duke UP, 2017) for Africa Is A Country.

Afrika.no

By SindreOctober 15, 2018Colonialism, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural racism, Danish West Indies, Decolonization, Freedom of expression, Neo-liberalism, Norway

An essay of mine originally published by Africa Is A Country has now been made available in a Norwegian version, courtesy of the fine website afrika.no, run by the Norwegian Council For Africa.

Africa Is A Country

By SindreSeptember 4, 2018Colonialism, Counter speech, Cultural racism, Danish West Indies, Decolonization, Neo-liberalism, Neo-racism, Norway, Postcolonialism, Public anthropology, Racism, Slavery

My new essay for Africa Is A Country on ‘decolonization debates’ in Norway.

Samora Magazine

By SindreAugust 24, 2018'Race', Civil rights, Colonialism, Cultural racism, Decolonization, Neo-liberalism, Neo-racism, Paul Gilroy, Postcolonialism, Racism, Slavery, The Black Atlantic, W. E. B. Du Bois

My essay on Paul Gilroy and his seminal The Black Atlantic twenty-five years on for the Norwegian anti-racist magazine Samora 2/2018 is now online.

American Ethnologist (AE)

By SindreAugust 23, 2018Colonialism, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural racism, Danish West Indies, Gisli Palsson, Hans Jonathan, History, Iceland, Nationalism, Racism

My review of University of Iceland Prof Gisli Palsson’s fine and fascinating ‘The Man Who Stole Himself: The Slave Odyssey of Hans Jonathan’ (University of Chicago Press, 2016) is out now from American Ethnologist (AE).

Morgenbladet

By SindreJune 15, 2018Antisemitism, Colonialism, History, Nationalism, Nazism, Norway, Racism, Xenophobia

On sanitizing and mythologizing Norwegian history.