Post-racial paradoxes: rethinking European racism and anti-racism

Importing American racial reasoning to social science research in Sweden

“…How can I highlight the racialized devaluation at play when students use their different ethnic backgrounds and cross-cultural experiences to connect to and be seen by one another while headmasters tend to see student backgrounds as a liability and a distraction (Voyer 2016)? Voyer's use of racial and ethnic categories and the principal's refusal of them is the point: racialized power, race-based inequality, and marginality are possible even in contexts where the idea of race is discredited (Epstein 2016;Jensen, Weibel & Vitus 2017;Sayyid 2017). And, as our work shows, in such contexts, racialized power and inequality can be especially potent.…”

“…our unique contribution is the development of a structured research approach that reflects an underlying epistemology of racial difference, struggle, and emancipation that is grounded in the US framework as laid out below. This "American" flavor is channeled through the colonial episteme, sensitive to intersections of privilege and oppression, and recognizable in other attempts to take up the topics of race and racisms in other contexts (see, for example Skovdahl 1996;Winant 2001;Dixon & Telles 2017;Sayyid 2017). Important research on race and racism is not confined to the United States, but our goal is to harness the potential of race from a US perspective in order to provide a contribution to the research landscape that can encourage further movement to racially-aware social science.…”

Racismo y antirracismo: comprender para transformar

“…Desde finales de los años ochenta ha empezado a generalizarse, tanto en el ámbito académico, como en el mundo del activismo, la idea que el antirracismo, o los antirracismos, están en crisis (Gallissot, 1985;Taguieff, 1989;Sayyid, 2017). Numerosos investigadores van más allá y hablan del "fin del antirracismo" (Gilroy, 1990) y consideran que el antirracismo ha entrado en crisis desde que, con el comienzo de la guerra fría, ha roto su unidad ideológica, social y política.…”

“…Las perspectivas decolonial e interseccional están llevando a cabo una crítica radical del antirracismo, denunciando su "continuidad colonial" (Azarmandi, 2017) y sus paradojas y contradicciones internas (Sayyid, 2017;Lentin, 2017); repensando y deconstruyendo las identidades subalternas (Dei, 2017); revalorizando y dando voz a epistemologías periféricas (Grosfoguel, Oso y Christou, 2015); promoviendo nuevas alianzas y diálogos críticos entre la acción antirracista y otros movimientos sociales, especialmente con el feminismo (Dhamoon, 2015;Miñoso, 2017).…”

“Lo notas, lo sientes”. Retóricas sobre prácticas de discriminación racial

“…La consecuencia de todo ello a la hora de identificar, señalar o denunciar prácticas racistas, es que al ser tan sutiles son difíciles de asociar, identificar y catalogar (Sayyid, 2017).…”