ISBN:
9781786993816
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (305 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
Parallel Title:
Print version Yancy, George The Fire Now : Anti-Racist Scholarship in Times of Explicit Racial Violence
DDC:
372.1829
Keywords:
Racism in education..
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Discrimination in higher education..
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Social movements..
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Educational sociology..
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Political activists
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Abstract:
Bringing together some of the UK's leading scholars on race, this collection reframes anti-racist scholarship and activism for a new era by contributing a much-needed British angle to the US-led body of work on whiteness, anti-racist education, black queer studies and intersectionality
Abstract:
Cover -- Praise for the Book -- About the Editors -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the Contributors -- Foreword: The Heat and the Burdens of the Day -- Notes -- References -- Changing Our Fate in The Fire Now -- Note -- References -- Part I. Transforming Academia -- 1. I Am Not a Writer -- 2. An Academic Witness: White Supremacy within and beyond Academia -- Academia and White Supremacy: Contextualising Brexit and Trump -- Critiquing Whiteness in Academia -- Black Feminism and Dialogue -- Moving Forward -- Note -- References -- 3. Understanding Racism within the Academy: The Persistence of Racism within Higher Education -- Introduction -- Understanding the Persistence of Racism in Higher Education -- Understanding the Impact of Racial Micro-aggression in Academia -- Conclusion -- References -- 4. Black Study -- Introduction -- An Opening -- References -- 5. Confronting My Duty as an Academic: We Should All Be Activists -- Be Aware and Critical of the Historical and Contemporary Role of the University -- Speak Truth to Power -- Be Supportive and Be Supported -- Know the Wider Communities -- Being Reflexive: Are We Doing More Harm Than Good? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part II. Intersectional Identities, Intersectional Struggles -- 6. Majority Monitoring -- 7. Crippin' Blackness: Narratives of Disabled People of Colour from Slavery to Trump -- Re-materialising Race and Disability -- Locating Hope in Times of Increasing Despair -- References -- 8. Intersectionality before the Courts: The Face Veil Cases -- Introduction -- The Human Rights Framework -- From Partial Bans to Total Bans -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 9. Colour-Blind Racism and the 2017 Women's March: White Feminism, Activism and Lessons for the Left -- Introduction -- Racism and the Rise of the Right -- Racism Prior to the Women's March
Abstract:
Racism at the Women's March on Washington -- Racism in Social Movements in the Trump Era -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 10. 'The Climate Crisis is a Racist Crisis': Structural Racism, Inequality and Climate Change -- Introduction: Environmental and Climate Justice -- Strange Weather Bears Strange Fruit -- When Will Black Lives Matter? -- 'The Climate Crisis Is a Racist Crisis' (Black Lives Matter UK, 2016) -- Debts Due, Not Aid Promised: Climate Justice Now! -- Note -- References -- Part III. Lessons from History, Connections Across Spaces -- 11. Beware the Northern Fox: Keeping a Focus on Systematic Racism Post Trump and Brexit -- Southern Fox and the Northern Wolf -- Beware of the Fox Post-Brexit -- References -- 12. This Ain't Nothing New: Contextualising Black Responses to Trump's America -- History Rewards Our Research -- Back to the Future: A Sleeping Giant Awakens -- References -- 13. Understanding the Present through the Past: Struggles against Racism -- Introduction -- The Fight against Racism and the Open Resistance to Eurocentrism -- The Anti-Racism Struggle of Women in the Black Diaspora -- Anti-racism Today: How Far We Have Come -- Conclusion -- References -- 14. Fighting for Survival: Lessons from the Pan African Resistance -- Introduction -- Black Collectivism against Western Discrimination and Exploitation -- Counteracting Western Negativity wi th Positive Black Liberation -- The Legacy of Black Resistance -- References -- 15. Could It Happen Here? Canada's Multicultural Oasis and Global Right-Wing Drift -- Canada's Multiculturalism and the Pretensions of Colour-Blindness -- Canada above the Fray? -- Defending Canadian Values, Canadian Family and the Place of 'Old Stock' Canadians -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 16. Domesticating Trump -- Banal Misogyny: From Kenya to the US -- #RailaAnotherTrump
Abstract:
Anti-racist Solidarity? -- Notes -- References -- Part IV. Understanding And Reframing Oppression -- 17. Writing in the Fire Now: Beth Dialogues with Wambui and Osop -- Writings to and from Wambui and Beth -- Writings to and from Osop and Beth -- References -- 18. Movements through Trauma: How to See Ourselves -- Mundane Monstrosity -- The Morality of Trauma -- Political Identities -- Movements of Trauma -- I'm Here for a (Good) Time, Not a Long Time -- References -- 19. Fundamental British Values: Moving Towards Anti-Racist and Multicultural Education? -- Introduction -- The Stranger on the Shores of Britain -- Fundamental British Values (FBV) -- Reclaiming Multiculturalism, Rejecting Fundamental British Values -- Researching Youth Voices on Britishness and Belonging -- Conclusion: Examining British Identities through a Critical Lens -- Notes -- References -- 20. Teaching White Innocence in an Anti-Black Social Order: British Values and the Psychic Life of Coloniality -- Promoting Fundamental British Values -- Pursue, Protect, Prepare and Prevent: The Story of a Shipwreck and a Desert Island -- Winning Hearts and (Especially) Minds -- The Psychic Life of White Supremacy -- Conclusion -- References -- 21. 'Be Exactly Who You Are': Black Feminism in Volatile Political Realities -- Introduction -- 2016 Political Context -- Being-ness, Radicality and Black Feminism -- The Radicality of Being Exactly Who You Are -- Deregulating Blackness as an Intervention into White Supremacy -- Black Women Who Paved the Way in Volatile Times -- Surviving and Thriving: Listening to Black Women -- Psychological Disorientation and the Consequences of Taking Up Space -- Affirmation and Caring -- Paying It Forward: Community -- The Value of Being Exactly Who You Are -- Notes -- References -- 22. Laughter and the Politics of Place-Making -- Introduction
Abstract:
Divisive Nostalgia in Post-Brexit Britain -- Making Place as Shared Matter -- The Wonder of Place as Material Archive -- Laughter as Unpredictable Key to Place as Material Archive -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 23. Demanding the Impossible: Responding to The Fire Now -- Note -- References -- Afterword -- References -- Index
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