Schwarzrund is a multimedia blog that explores experiences of multiple discrimination. The site’s author blogs about both loving and tough arguments with privileged groups inside and outside of communities. She also covers queer Black artists, empowerment, and self-care tips. Further, the blog features texts and podcasts that have been created in an academic context.(Cf. self-description of Schwarzrund). The website includes notes on personal struggles with experiences of discrimination and identity, such as the sequence of the “mirror moment” in the text”Decolonize … my mind”: “There you stand, with all your decolonized, deconstructed, feminist knowledge, secretly badmouthing yourself. I then always…
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Gipsy Mafia are the two rappers Skill and Buddy from Zrenjanin, Serbia. From their perspective as Rromn*ja, they speak in their texts (see below for translations into German) about the corrupt politics and racist society in Serbia and clearly position themselves against nationalism and fascism. Ciganska Posla by Gipsy Mafia For more on Gipsy Mafia, see the following article published in Junge Welt: Gipsy Mafia were kind enough to translate some of their lyrics for mangoes & bullets into German: Anti-Capitalista We are just buying and buying like crazy Although the money…
The anthology brings together recent contributions that discuss categories of social inequality such as constructed race, gender, sexual identity, class, etc. as corresponding and interrelated. At the center of these considerations is an analysis of the ambivalences, simultaneities, and contradictions of these domination-shaped dimensions. Iman Attia/Swantje Köbsell/Nivedita Prasad (eds.) 2015: Dominanzkultur reloaded. New texts on social power relations and their interactions. Bielefeld: transcript. If you don’t have a bookstore worth supporting near you, you can also buy the book from the alternative non-profit online bookstore links-lesen.de, which supports political projects with the profits. The link to the book is: http:…
What are the normative foundations of more just relations in the migration society? The volume traces this question and focuses on the concept of solidarity: “Beyond a ‘solidarity among intimates,’ migration-social solidarity denotes an active practice, not necessarily based on communality, for a concrete counterpart, but also for a political idea of society.” This idea is explored and developed in perspective in the book. (From the publisher’s description). Anne Broden/Paul Mecheril (eds.) 2014: Solidarity in the Migration Society. Questioning a normative foundation. Bielefeld: transcript. If you don’t have a bookstore worth supporting near you, you can also buy the book…
This blog is dedicated to the memory of the Ghanaian philosopher and jurist Anton Wilhelm Amo and deals with his work up to the European present. Amo was enslaved as a child and taken to Europe. He lectured on human rights at several German universities in the 18th century and researched and taught on the legal status of black people.
Betül Ulusoy is a lawyer and speaker in Berlin and blogs from a female Muslim perspective mainly on anti-Muslim racism in Germany and on the topics of flight and asylum.
The operators of the blog want to mobilize Berliners for revolutionary politics based on Marxist analysis. The Anti-Capitalist Non-White Group Under Construction sees itself as part of a critical movement against all forms of oppression. Struggles of communities whose members are affected by structural inequalities such as racism, anti-Muslim racism or anti-Romaism are to be bundled in order to jointly create perspectives for a more just society.
Since 2011 there have been protests in Chiapas/Mexico against the neo-colonial biopiracy of the German government. In the BMZ project “Equitable benefit-sharing in the use of biological diversity is to develop a model proposal for a regulation that would determine “access and benefit sharing in the use of genetic resources” (“Access and Benefit Sharing”, ABS). This means patents and profits for the companies (starting with the German industry), while the population and the communities go empty-handed, internal disputes are stirred up and cultural heritage is destroyed. All this is tried to be achieved by means of frauds, such as lack…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85fr6nbiMT4 Hari Kondabolu ist ein US-Amerikanischer Stand-Up Comedian mit rassismuskritischem Entertainment Programm. Sein neuestes Album heißt Waiting for 2042. Ausführliche Infos gibt es hier auf seiner Webseite. 2042 & the White Minority | Hari Kondabolu| USA | 2013 | Englisch | 2,55 min.
The book sheds light on the extent to which socially accepted discourses of Islam are regularly mixed with right-wing populist statements that negotiate Muslims across-the-board as a security risk or fundamentally impute regressiveness to them. The book is suitable for anyone who wants to address anti-Muslim racism and its entrapment in everyday discourse. Iman Attia/Alexander Häusler/Yasemin Shooman 2014: Antimuslim Racism on the Right Fringe. Münster: Unrast. If you don’t have a bookstore worth supporting near you, you can also buy the book from the alternative non-profit online bookstore links-lesen.de, which supports political projects with the profits. The link to the…
antifra* is a blog of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, which is about debate, education and networking on the topics of migration, neo-Nazism and racism.
Americanah is a novel by author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Her narrative is about a young Nigerian protagonist and a protagonist who emigrate during the time of military dictatorship; their life in the U.S. and finally their return. In the novel, in addition to various motifs, the themes of racism and identity are dealt with centrally. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2013: Americanah. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer. If you don’t have a bookstore worth supporting near you, you can also buy the book from the alternative non-profit online bookstore links-lesen.de, which supports political projects with the profits. The link to the book is:…