Lang’s Fury Continues to Resonate in the #BlackLivesMatter Movement
Eric Garner uttered “I can’t breathe” eleven times on July 17, 2014 when he died […]
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Global Migration, Local Charity: African Refugees, Food Provisioning, and the Declining Israeli Middle Class
Since the mid-2000s, African asylum seekers and refugees have entered Israel in an attempt to […]
Literary and Visual Rememory at the 90th Anniversary of the Banana Massacre in Colombia
Introduction: Remembering the Masacre de las Bananeras 2018 marks the 90th anniversary of what has […]
Deconstructing Zoe: Performing Race
In her landmark study of gender, Judith Butler suggests that gender is ‘performed, manufactured through a sustained set of acts, posited through the gendered stylization of the body’.
The Everyday Consumption of “Whiteness”: The Gaikokujin-fū (Foreign-Like) Hair Trend in Japan
In feminist literature, the beauty and the fashion industries have at times been criticized for […]
Racism or Race Play: A Conceptual Investigation of the Race Play Debates
On the ninth of February 2017, erotic video platform ManyVids (MV) caused a scandal among […]
“Blood is Thicker than Water”: The Materialization of the Racial Body in Fascist East Africa
Introduction One of the major issues with the perception of “race” in modern Italy refers […]
“O Mother Race”: Race, Italian Colonialism and the Fight to Keep Ethiopia Independent
In 1896, after the Ethiopian victory over the Italian army at Adowa, the poet Paul […]
Folk as the Sound of Self-Liberation: The Career and Performance Identity of Odetta
This paper examines the performance career of Odetta, an African-American folk singer, guitarist and political […]
Black Music Styles as Vehicles for Transnational and Trans-Racial Exchange: Perceptions of Blackness in the Music Scenes of London and Paris (1920s-1950s)
Intellectuals, writers, artists and historians have recognised a fundamental role of black genres in the […]