In the volume edited by Zülfukar Çetin and Savaş Taş, people experienced with racism speak from multiple perspectives about forms of racism and entanglements with other relations of domination. Activists, academics and artists provide insights into current discussions in the form of interviews and highlight resistant practices and perspectives.
The book features a majority of Women of Color. Queer and feminist perspectives as well as experiences and expertise of refugee women are co-represented in the volume.
We would like to draw special attention to the interviews with Isidora Randjelović and Elsa Fernandez. The authors deal with the current forms and the massiveness of “anti-Romaism”, which have so far been largely suppressed in prevailing dicourses. In doing so, they introduce the term “Gadje racism” and explain why the term is important and holds great emancipatory potential under certain conditions: “Racism against Rrom_nja and otherwise self-identified Romani collectives is the work of the Gadje, i.e. non-Rroma […]”. (Fernandes, p. 33). It is about “dealing with definitions and words as analytical and strategic material. We need analysis to understand what is happening to us, also to be able to defend ourselves well […].” (Randjelović, p. 34).
See also the publisher’s book description.
Zülfukar Çetin/Savaş Taş (eds.) 2015: Conversations on Racism – Perspectives and Resistances. Berlin: Verlag Yılmaz Güney.