Slavery | Sindre Bangstad

Morgenbladet

By SindreDecember 5, 2018'Race', Achille Mbembe, Africa, Apartheid, Nationalism, Nazism, Neo-liberalism, Neo-racism, Norway, Paul Gilroy, Populism, Postcolonialism, Public sphere, Racism, Slavery, South Africa, The Black Atlantic, Tolerance, USA, W. E. B. Du Bois, Xenophobia

My op-ed for Morgenbladet, published in connection with Prof Achille Mbembe’s first ever visit to Norway and the Holberg Debate at the University of Bergen on Dec 1 2018.

Antirasistisk.no

By SindreOctober 26, 2018'Race', Achille Mbembe, Africa, Cameroon, Cultural racism, Decolonization, History, Neo-liberalism, Neo-racism, Norway, Paul Gilroy, Public sphere, Racism, Slavery, South Africa, Xenophobia

A short essay of mine on the life and work of one of the world’s leading postcolonial intellectuals, Prof Achille Mbembe (b. 1957 – in Cameroon) of Wits and Harvard University, ahead of his first ever visit to Norway (Universitetets Aula, Bergen, Dec 1 and House of Literature, Oslo, Dec 2 2018.)

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.

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. […]

Category Archives: Slavery

Morgenbladet

Antirasistisk.no

Africa Is A Country

Samora Magazine

The Moral Imagination of Ta-Nehisi Coates