Cultural Racism | Sindre Bangstad

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).

Le Monde

By SindreAugust 17, 2018Anders Breivik And The Rise Of Islamophobia, Cultural racism, Extremism, Far right, Fascism, Muslims, Nationalism, Nazism, Neo-racism, Norway, Public sphere, Racism, Terrorism

Interviewed for Le Monde for this article on the state of far-right hate in Norway seven years after Breivik.

World Policy Journal

By SindreJune 28, 2018Counterterrorism, Cultural racism, Eurabia genre, Extremism, Far right, Fascism, Human rights, Muslims, Nationalism, Nazism, Neo-racism, Norway, Progress Party, Racism, Radicalization, Secularism

Happy to announce the publication of a commissioned essay on Norway’s July 22 2011 right-wing extremist terrorist attacks and the lessons which Norway has failed to learn in the aftermath, courtesy of the Duke University Press/World Policy Institute’s World Policy Journal (WPJ).

New Palgrave title

By SindreApril 24, 2018Cultural racism, Eurabia genre, European Islam, Freedom of expression, Hate speech, Islam, Liberalism, Muslims, Nationalism, Neo-liberalism, Neo-racism, Norway, Populism, Progress Party, Public sphere, Racism, Right-wing extremism, Secularism, State feminism, Xenophobia

I have a chapter on ‘The New Nationalism And Its Relationship To Islam’ in this new edited volume by Profs John Erik Fossum, Birte Siim and Riva Kastoryano out now with Palgrave Macmillan.

Africa Is A Country

By SindreApril 13, 2018'Race', Cultural racism, Decolonization, Paul Gilroy, Postcolonialism, Racism, The Black Atlantic, Visual cultures of racism, W. E. B. Du Bois

My New essay about Paul Gilroy and his seminal The Black Atlantic: Modernity And Double Consciousness twenty-five years on for Africa Is A Country.

Verdens Gang (VG)

By SindreApril 5, 2018'Race', Civil rights, Cultural racism, Hate speech, Human rights, Neo-racism, Norway, Racism

Interviewed by the largest Norwegian tabloid newspaper Verdens Gang (VG) on racism in Norway, the abiding Norwegian myth that racism is ‘there’ and never ‘here’, and the dire need for a new government action plan against racism.

A Note On The Visual Cultures of Racism

By SindreMay 30, 2016'Race', Antisemitism, Austria, CERD, Cultural racism, Far right, Freedom of expression, Hate speech, Human rights, Islamophobia, James Baldwin, Muslims, Neo-racism, Norway, Populism, Progress Party, Public sphere, Racism, South Africa, Ta-Nehis Coates, USA, Visual cultures of racism, Xenophobia

Racist speech does not function as an invitation to conversation. It does not offer reasons or arguments with which its audience can engage; and the visceral hostility it expresses effectively forecloses, rather than opens, the opportunity for further discussion. Caroline West, ‘Words That Silence? Freedom of expression and racist hate speech’, 2012. “We express ourselves […]

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