W. E. B. Du Bois | Sindre Bangstad

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 […]

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Africa Is A Country

Morgenbladet

Samora Magazine

Africa Is A Country

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