Special Issue "Global Antiracism"

Dear Colleagues,

We welcome contributions to this Special Issue of Humanities on global antiracism that examine the global reach and currency of anti-racist discourses. What does it mean to conceptualize race/racism on a global scale? What are the political dynamics presupposed in pursuing an anti-racist agenda? If racial supremacy is the problem, who is the enemy (white supremacy, sovereign settlers, anti-Blacks, antisemites, Islamophobes, among many others)? Who defines race and racial violence? To what extent are anti-racist projects necessarily and irremediably entangled with the forces of global capitalism and settler–colonial logic? In what ways does racism exceed these forces? Does a global perspective on anti-racism open new ways to transform the social coordinates of our racial existence and foster cross-racial solidarities? Conversely, does such an approach risk diluting the specificities of a given, local anti-racist struggle? In summary, what does thinking anti-racism globally open up or foreclose? Topics of interest include Black Lives Matter, anti-blackness and the afterlife of slavery, critical race theory, afropessimism, racial capitalism, solidarity movements, settler colonialism, indigeneity, decoloniality, antisemitism, Islamophobia, the Global South, and political economy/libidinal economy.

Prof. Dr. Jeffrey Di Leo
Prof. Dr. Zahi Zalloua
Guest Editors

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• Black Lives Matter
• anti-blackness
• critical race theory
• afropessimism
• racial capitalism
• solidarity movements
• settler colonialism
• indigeneity
• decoloniality
• antisemitism
• Islamophobia
• Global South
• political economy
• libidinal economy