Cultural Racism | Sindre Bangstad

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 […]

Hate Speech: The Dark Twin Of Free Speech

By SindreOctober 25, 2015al-Qaida, Antisemitism, Counter speech, Cultural racism, Eurabia genre, European Islam, Extremism, Far right, Freedom of expression, Genocide, Germany, Hate speech, Holocaust/Shoah, Human rights, ISIS, Islam, Islamophobia, Jews, Muslims, Nazism, Neo-racism, Norway, Political liberalism, Populism, Progress Party, Public sphere, Racism, Salafi-jihadism, Secularism, South Africa, XenophobiaCass Sunstein, Hate Speech, hate speech laws, Jeremy Waldron, John Suler, Katharine Gelber, minorities, Norway, Racism, South Africa, USA

Freedom of opinion is a farce, unless factual information is guaranteed, and the facts themselves are not in dispute. Hannah Arendt, ‘Truth and politics’, 1966. On October 20 2014, an unemployed fifty-seven year old white Norwegian man entered a supermarket in an Eastern suburb of the Norwegian capital of Oslo. Walking through the supermarket, he […]

Presentation at Princeton University, Oct 2, 2015

By SindreOctober 5, 2015Counter speech, Cultural racism, Eurabia genre, Hate speech, Human rights, Institute for Advanced Studies, Islam, Islamophobia, Muslims, Norway, Populism, Princeton University, Progress Party, Public sphere, Racism, Social Integration, XenophobiaEurope, Integration, Islamophobia, Muslims, Norway, Princeton University, Social, Xenophobia

THE RELATION OF FEAR AND PHOBIA TO SOCIAL INTEGRATION Presentation for Conference on Xenophobia and Social Integration at the Institute For Advanced Studies (IAS)/Princeton Institute For International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), Princeton University, Oct 1 to 3 2015. Given by Sindre Bangstad (cand. Polit., PhD in Anthropology), Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo, Norway at Aaron Burr […]

The Moral Imagination of Ta-Nehisi Coates

By SindreSeptember 7, 2015African-Americans, Barack Obama, Black Panthers, Christianity, Civil rights, Civil Rights Revolution, Cultural racism, Emancipation, Feminism, History, Human rights, James Baldwin, Liberalism, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Norway, Public sphere, Racism, Radicalism, Slavery, South Africa, Ta-Nehis CoatesBaltimore, Barack Obama, Between The World And Me, Christianity, Desmond Tutu, Forgiveness, James Baldwin, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Reconciliation, Redemption, Richard Ashby Wilson, South Africa, Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Beautiful Struggle, The Fire Next Time, TRC, W. E. B. Du Bois

It is hard to face this. But all our phrasing – race relations, racial chasm, racial justice, racial profiling, white privilege, even white supremacy – serves to obscure that racism is a visceral experience, that it dislodges brains, blocks airways, rips muscle, extract organs, cracks bones, breaks teeth. You must never look away from this. […]

Routledge

By SindreJuly 2, 2015Antisemitism, Counter speech, Cultural racism, Extremism, Far right, Freedom of expression, Hate speech, Islamophobia, Muslims, Neo-racism, Norway, Populism, Progress Party, Public sphere, Racism, Terrorism

Routledge has recently published the following anthology edited by Profs Ralph D. Grillo (Sussex University) and Marcel Maussen (University of Amsterdam) entitled ‘Regulation of Speech in Multicultural Societies’. Originally based on papers first presented at a conference at the University of Amsterdam in 2011, it was first published as a special issue of the Journal […]

Samora

By SindreJuly 1, 2015Antisemitism, Cultural racism, Decolonization, Extremism, Far right, Genocide, Germany, Hate speech, History, Holocaust/Shoah, Human rights, Islamophobia, Jews, Muslims, Nazism, Neo-racism, Norway, Racism, South Africa

My own and Cora A. Døving’s primer on racism – Hva er rasisme? [What is racism?] Universitetsforlaget, 2015 – has been reviewed by Mohamed Abdi for the Norwegian journal Samora. The review can be read in full in Norwegian here: http://mohamed86a.tumblr.com/post/122836319840/hva-b-r-antirasisme-i-var-tid-vaere

Arts Council Norway

By SindreJune 3, 2015Antisemitism, Cultural racism, Far right, Hate speech, History, Islamophobia, Nazism, Neo-racism, Norway, South AfricaArts Council of Norway, Hva er rasisme?, Racism, Universitetsforlaget

In a meeting on May 15 2015, the Arts Council of Norway selected my and Cora A. Døving’s short introduction to racism, entitled ‘Hva er rasisme?’ ['What is racism?], Universitetsforlaget, 2015 as one of 19 (out of a total of 71 titles nominated by Norwegian publishers in the Academic Prose category) which the Arts Council […]

Forskerforum

By SindreJune 3, 2015Cultural racism, Hate speech, RacismForskerforum, Hva er rasisme?, Racism, Review

In this review from the journal Forskerforum May 8 2015, Ragnhild Fjellro from Oslo and Akershus University College (HiOA) describes my and Cora A. Døving’s 2015 book ‘Hva er rasisme?’ ['What is racism?], Universitetsforlaget as a book at “a high academic level”, as having “rich sources spread over time and disciplines” with a “language [which] […]

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