Category Archives: W. E. B. Du Bois

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 […]