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Global Antiracism

A special issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787). This special issue belongs to the section "Transdisciplinary Humanities".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2024) | Viewed by 11010

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Jeffrey R. Di Leo

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School of Arts and Sciences, University of Houston-Victoria, Victoria, TX 77004, USA
Interests: applied ethics; experimental literature; classic American philosophy; music theory; philosophy of language; literary and cultural theory; publishing history; book culture; higher education
Prof. Dr. Zahi Zalloua

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Cushing Eells Professor of Philosophy and Literature and Director of Indigeneity, Race, and Ethnicity Studies, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA 99362, USA
Interests: Critical Black Studies; The Posthuman; The Palestinian Question; Psychoanalysis; interdisciplinary approaches to philosophy and literature; experimental fiction

Special Issue Information

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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Keywords

  • 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

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Antiracism and Black Self-Defense in the Face of (Juridical) Catastrophe
by Adam Burgos and Khalil Saucier
Humanities 2024, 13(2), 51; https://doi.org/10.3390/h13020051 - 13 Mar 2024
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In this paper we analyze the relationship between antiracism and black self-defense. We draw a distinction between liberal and political black self-defense and argue that antiracism can at most sanction a juridical and individualistic notion of self-defense rather than a communal one. We [...] Read more.
In this paper we analyze the relationship between antiracism and black self-defense. We draw a distinction between liberal and political black self-defense and argue that antiracism can at most sanction a juridical and individualistic notion of self-defense rather than a communal one. We argue that any and all theoretical conceptions of contestation, resistance, or revolution need to seriously grapple with the necessity of theorizing black self-defense. In doing so, we thematize antiblack violence through accounts of self-defense given by black radicals. Together, these arguments outline a perpetual conditional threat of violence against any and all black freedom projects, which in turn justifies enunciative black counterviolence. Full article
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Against Exceptionalism
by Zahi Zalloua
Humanities 2024, 13(2), 50; https://doi.org/10.3390/h13020050 - 12 Mar 2024
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In this article, I question the logic informing paradigms of trauma that ontologize and essentialize events, such as the Holocaust and chattel slavery, making them unique, incomparable exceptions that encapsulate or inaugurate the violence of Western modernity, while standing outside and above the [...] Read more.
In this article, I question the logic informing paradigms of trauma that ontologize and essentialize events, such as the Holocaust and chattel slavery, making them unique, incomparable exceptions that encapsulate or inaugurate the violence of Western modernity, while standing outside and above the order they found. In an effort to avoid the urge to rank that follows almost effortlessly from such ontologization, I mobilize the appeal to the universal undergirding the works of Slavoj Žižek and that of Frantz Fanon. Both Fanon and Žižek read racial trauma and racist violence in light of the eviscerating ontological effects of an imperialist capitalism that divides the world and segregates its peoples. Rather than opting for identity politics, however, these thinkers argue against ontologizing and exceptionalizing victims, in favor of elaborating a politics based on their concrete universality. Full article
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Missing in Action: Where’s the Unconscious in Anti-Racist “Unconscious Bias Training”?
by Ilan Kapoor and Sheila L. Cavanagh
Humanities 2024, 13(1), 18; https://doi.org/10.3390/h13010018 - 19 Jan 2024
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This article carries out a psychoanalytic and political critique of recent attempts at fighting racism, focusing on antiracist “unconscious bias training” at universities and in international development. It claims that these regimes of institutional training depend on knowledge- and awareness-based education of university [...] Read more.
This article carries out a psychoanalytic and political critique of recent attempts at fighting racism, focusing on antiracist “unconscious bias training” at universities and in international development. It claims that these regimes of institutional training depend on knowledge- and awareness-based education of university staff and international cooperants, thereby not only negating the significant psychoanalytic dimensions of racism, but also disavowing any meaningful or collective engagement precisely with the unconscious. The political consequence is the treatment of racism as both symptom and individualized responsibility, thereby depoliticizing the struggle against global/structural racism. The article concludes by considering what a psychoanalytic antiracist politics might look like. Full article
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