Browsing: institutional racism

The clip of the youtube channel Newsbroke addresses, in the style of an explanatory video in a work context, everyday situations of non-white people and people of color.

Afrofuturist, filmmaker, and activist Amadine Gay’s documentary assembles the experiences of Francophone European Black women in the diaspora into a multi-layered collage about Blackness, art, racial discrimination, and the reappropriation of one’s own narrative.

Brooklyn artist KRTS’s music video addresses police violence in superimposed, fast-cut found footage images.

In his study published in 2017, the music sociologist Johannes Ismaiel-Wendt examines techniques and technologies of judging – using the example of miking in the so-called NSU trial at the Munich Higher Regional Court.

The publication of the DGB-Jugend (youth organization of the German Trade Union Confederation) from 2012 shows central argumentation patterns of anti-Muslim racism, names corresponding counter-arguments/strategies and gives references to further literature. In addition, some anti-racist youth projects and initiatives are presented.

The film by the London-based research agency “Forensic Architecture” examines the statements made by Andreas Temme, an employee of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, in the Halit Yozgat murder case. He was shot dead by members of the so-called “National Socialist Underground (NSU)” in his Internet café in Kassel on April 6, 2006.

BREAK THE SILENCE. Initiative in Memory of Oury Jalloh has been campaigning since the death of Oury Jalloh in the Dessau police station on 07.01.2005 for a comprehensive clarification of the circumstances of his death and for a commemoration of Oury Jalloh.

The network ADBs for NRW! and the anti-discrimination office of the association Public Against Violence have published a brochure against discrimination in the police. In the booklet, causes and consequences of (racist) discrimination on the part of the police are addressed and possibilities of intervention are shown.

Some five years after the discovery of the NSU, the events surrounding the NSU complex have still not been comprehensively clarified. Scientific analysis is also still in its infancy. In the volume, innovative concepts and international perspectives on the study of the complex are presented and bundled.

This indictment is the result of our efforts to make the NSU complex and its actors visible. It is in deliberate contradiction to the criminal charges brought by the Federal Prosecutor’s Office, which downplayed the NSU as the work of a few.

Activists, academics and cultural workers of color as well as human rights organizations have joined forces to form the Alliance Against Racial Profiling. Together, they are fighting institutional racism in the Swiss police corps.

“The NSU murders were followed by a racist media controversy and one-sided, discriminatory investigative work. The play ‘Judgments’ by Christine Umpfenbach and Azar Mortazavi […] counters this racism with the perspective of those left behind.”