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.

Return to South Africa

By SindreSeptember 25, 2016Anthropology, Apartheid, Cape Muslims, Cape Town, Cultural Anthropology, Forced removals, Group Areas Act, Neo-liberalism, Racism, Salafism, South AfricaCape Muslims, Cape Town, South Africa

You’ll see how it is – it’s still that kind of city – here where one thing leads, shades into another; where footpath becomes road, road a roadstead, where the stone of the mountain turns to street-stone, and you’d almost believe the one were the other, and that where it all leads, the sole place […]

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 […]

Islamophobia Studies Yearbook

By SindreFebruary 21, 2016Islam, Islamophobia, Muslims, Neo-racism, Norway, Racism

I have a commissioned chapter entitled ‘Re-coding nationalism: Islam, Muslims and Islamophobia in Norway before and after July 22 2011′, pp. 44-66 in the latest ‘Islamophobia Studies Yearbook 2016′, edited by Associate Professor Farid Hafez at the University of Salzburg, Austria. The volume is available by direct order from the publishers, New Academic Press in Vienna or from Amazon.com. […]

Notes on ‘race’ in a supposedly ‘non-racial’ time

By SindreFebruary 4, 2016'Race', African-Americans, Anthropology, Antisemitism, Ashley Montagu, Civil rights, Counter speech, Cultural Anthropology, History, Nazism, Racism, Ta-Nehis Coates, UNESCO, USA, W. E. B. Du Bois, World War II'Post-raciality', 'racial science', 'racial thinking', 'Scientific racism', Alana Lentin, Ashley Montagu, Franz Boas, Race

But race is the child of racism, not the father. Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between The World And Me, 2015. Thinking through differences The drafting of a commissioned article on the contested concept of ‘race’ for a special issue of the Norwegian sociological journal Sosiologisk Tidsskrift later this year has availed me with an opportunity to re-visit […]

Dagsavisen

By SindreFebruary 2, 2016Aftenposten, Antisemitism, CERD, Dagsavisen, Freedom of expression, Hate speech, Human rights, ICCPR, Racism, UNDHR 1948, United NationsCERD, Hate Speech, Human rights, ICCPR, Jeremy Waldron, Norwegian General Penal Code 135 (a), Norwegian General Penal Code 185, Samuel Moyn, Stalin

In response to recent groundless and fabricated claims in Norwegian media about the historical origins of Norwegian and international hate speech legislation from the Fritt Ord Foundation’s Director Knut Olav Åmås, I have together with Ervin Kohn of the Norwegian Centre Against Racism (ARS) and The Jewish Community in Oslo (Det Mosaiske Trossamfund) written the following op-ed, […]

American Ethnologist

By SindreJanuary 19, 2016American Ethnologist, Anders Breivik And The Rise Of Islamophobia, Eurabia genre, European Islam, Extremism, Far right, Freedom of expression, Hate speech, Islam, Islamophobia, Muslims, Norway, Populism, Racism, Terrorism, XenophobiaAlisa Perkins, American Ethnologist, Anders Breivik and the Rise of Islamophobia, Review

As academic reviews go, it hardly gets any better than this review of my 2014 monograph Anders Breivik And The Rise Of Islamophobia (London and New York: Zed Books) by Alisa Perkins at Western Michigan University in the American Anthropological Association (AAA)’s flagship journal American Ethnologist (AE), ranked 10 out of 84 anthropological journals worldwide […]

Yearbook of Muslims in Europe

By SindreNovember 10, 2015European Islam, Far right, Human rights, Interreligious dialogue, Islamic feminism, IslamNet, Islamophobia, Muslims, Neo-racism, Norway, Populism, Public sphere, Racism, Salafi-jihadism, Salafism, Saudi Arabia, Secularism, shari'a, The Prophet's Ummah

Together with Olav Elgvin at Fafo (Institute For Applied Social Research) I have been commissioned to write this year’s entry on ‘Norway’ in the annual Yearbook of Muslims in Europe (vol. 7, 2016), edited by Prof Oliver Scharbrodt at the University of Chester in the UK, which is out now. In this chapter, we focus […]

Journal of Contemporary European Studies

By SindreNovember 2, 2015Eurabia genre, European Islam, Extremism, Far right, Freedom of expression, Hate speech, Islam, Islamophobia, Muslims, Neo-racism, Norway, Progress Party, Public sphere, Racism, Radicalism, Terrorism, Xenophobia

Highlights from Mark Emmerson’s (University of Queensland, Australia) review of my monograph ‘Anders Breivik And The Rise of Islamophobia’ in the Taylor & Francis ‘Journal of Contemporary European Studies’ 2015: “Bangstad is an emphatic writer who is clearly emotionally vested in the issues that he discusses, yet this is not a weakness, and instead gives […]

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