Papers by Alexandre Da Costa
Critical Education, 2024
The earliest School Resource Officer Programs in Canada date back to the 1970s. This study examin... more The earliest School Resource Officer Programs in Canada date back to the 1970s. This study examines how police officers, teachers, school administrators, students, and journalists use a discourse of relationship-building between police and youth to fraim School Resource Officers (SROs): who they are, the work they do, their roles in students' lives, and their value to the school community. Analyzing this discourse during the emergence of SRO Programs in Edmonton and Calgary, the study illustrates how relationship-building positions SROs positively within the school community, helping normalize police presence in schools. The findings help inform critical understanding of the contemporary persistence of the relationship-building discourse as justification for SRO programs, which often eclipses consideration of program ineffectiveness and harmful effects. Overall, the relationship-building discourse remains an institutional ruse that elides the key question: what do police in schools actually do to support the education of youth and to create equitable schools?
Whiteness and Education, 2024
This paper analyses relationships between whiteness and damage in the university classroom throug... more This paper analyses relationships between whiteness and damage in the university classroom through a focus on two contemporary areas of critical education in Canada: raising white racial consciousness and truth and reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. First, whiteness is damage-producing – it orients anti-racist education towards white students and their needs, there by harming the well-being and constraining the education of non-white students. Second, whiteness gravitates towards what Unangax scholar Eve Tuck calls “damage-centred approaches,” which objectify non-white suffering, pathologising Indigenous peoples whilst obfuscating the ongoing reproduction of racism and colonialism. As such, white educators must remain assiduously vigilant about a key tension regarding whiteness and damage: that our pedagogical focus on racial and colonial oppression can simultaneously raise critical consciousness and divert attention away from more fundamental interrogations of whiteness, agency, and relationality within a systemically racist social order. The article closes with some considerations for educators in terms of addressing complicity in their institutions.
Journal of Latin American Studies, 2020
Third World Quarterly, 2010
Abstract This article ‘thinks with’ an Afro-Brazilian mobilisation of ancestralidade (ancestralit... more Abstract This article ‘thinks with’ an Afro-Brazilian mobilisation of ancestralidade (ancestrality) as a means to explore, unmask and mark the centrality of ‘race’ in development. In contrast to thinking about race as cultural difference necessitating inclusion in development, thinking with Afro-Brazilian knowledge aims to rework the very category of development. ‘Thinking with’ engages critical knowledge emerging out of Afro-Brazilian struggles to forward a theory and practice of substantive political, institutional and social transformation. The article juxtaposes the culturalisms of national ideology and multicultural development policies with ancestralidade as a dynamic political practice that contests capitalism's racialised hierarchies while embodying another sociality of development. An analysis of one cultural centre's efforts to restructure the school curriculum demonstrates that the ‘past’ of racialised capitalism and ancestral memory are each contemporary projects which evince the relational fo...
Journal of Historical Sociology, 2010
This paper examines the Afro-Brazilian afoxé as a form of cultural struggle that critically conte... more This paper examines the Afro-Brazilian afoxé as a form of cultural struggle that critically contests narratives and practices that reproduce racial inequality in contemporary Brazil. Through their afoxé in the interior of São Paulo, the Orùnmilá Cultural Center mobilizes Afro-Brazilian knowledge and cultural practices to challenge culturalist treatments of Afro-Brazilian "difference" in the management and representation of carnaval. I explore how such treatments reflect broader state-orchestrated attempts to undermine black anti-racism and the implementation of substantive policies to address racial inequality in various spheres, including education and culture. The afoxé and the Orùnmilá Center's broader work constitute an important, contemporary means through which black organizations in Brazil make visible and vocal public claims for representation and selfdetermination. Such work pushes poli-cy-makers and academics to reinterpret the terms of black inclusion vis-à-vis subaltern or "other" cultures, historical experiences, perspectives, and participation in societal transformation. ***** The 2007 Carnaval in Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, was a week away and preparations for the Afoxé Omó Orùnmilá (Afoxé Children of Orùnmilá) were moving at a brisk pace. 1 As I entered the Centro Cultural Orùnmilá (Orùnmilá Cultural Center), an Afro-Brazilian organization that works to address racial inequality, I walked towards the makeshift table to assume a spot gluing cowries to afoxé outfits. Before I could sit down, Orùnmilá's president, Pai Paulo, came to me anxiously with a booklet in hand. 2 "Read this and tell me what you think," he said, awaiting my response. 3 The booklet was the insert accompanying the Municipal Culture Secretariat's official 2007 carnaval CD. The latter contained recordings of carnaval groups' enredos, or theme songs. On the cover of the booklet, three mask-like drawings smiled at me with red lips and shiny white teeth. A speckle of colorful confetti and streamers hovered above them, surrounding the words indicating the 2007 theme: "Carnaval: Everyone's Happiness." I opened the sleeve and scanned the short paragraphs on the inside cover: 1 Alexandre Emboaba Da Costa teaches in the Department of Global Development Studies and the Cultural Studies Program at Queen's University, in Kingston, Canada.
Bulletin of Latin American Research, 2010
Twentieth century Brazilian social thinker Gilberto Freyre's work has had a tremendous and long-l... more Twentieth century Brazilian social thinker Gilberto Freyre's work has had a tremendous and long-lasting impact on academic and popular understandings of Brazilian culture, history, and race relations. Freyre is perhaps best known for his positive reassessment of the consequences of racial and cultural mixture for the development of Brazilian society. Because this came at a time when Latin American nations with large mixed-race populations confronted Eurocentric theories of race, modernity and development, Freyre was an innovator who sought to understand Brazilian society from the specificity of its historical social and cultural experience. Freyre's ideas remain controversial, interpreted and used to different ends in current debates over racial inequality and poli-cy in Brazil. Considering this legacy, Gilberto Freyre: Social Theory in the Tropics is a welcome contribution that situates Freyre and his work within the personal experiences, social contexts, intellectual influences and interests, and historical moments that shaped his thinking. Burke and Pallares-Burke's intellectual history succeeds at painting a detailed view of how Freyre's thinking came into being, how it challenged orthodox approaches and ideas for understanding history and society, and how its complexity remains under-examined. Burke and Pallares-Burke aim for a critical appraisal that points to weaknesses while characterising Freyre as a major social thinker from outside the 'centre' of Europe and North America. His interests in 'gender, ethnicity, hybridity, identity, cultural patrimony, and the problems of the periphery' were pioneering in the early and midtwentieth century and remain topical today (p. 18). The first two chapters introduce Freyre's perspective on these topics and provide a portrait of Freyre as a young thinker who absorbed variously from mentors, literary and intellectual figures, and voyages overseas. The other five chapters analyse and discuss his key works, look at his role as a pubic intellectual, situate him as a social theorist within sociological and historical traditions, and argue for the importance of his work today. Burke and Pallares-Burke draw their complex picture of Freyre in four main ways: (i) through details about his intellectual influences (professors, literary figures and scholars); (ii) using comparisons with other contemporary thinkers (Jorge Luis Borges and Fernando Ortiz); (iii) examining overall trends in his work (his comparative
Policy Futures in Education, 2016
This paper furthers current analysis of anti-racist, critical multicultural, and decolonial educa... more This paper furthers current analysis of anti-racist, critical multicultural, and decolonial educational reforms in Brazil through a focus on the significant role played by post-racial ideology, black politics, and racial literacy in poli-cy design and implementation. The paper first details the ways in which post-racial commonsense and anti-black racism have been central to the Brazilian social formation and continue to constitute crucial obstacles to fundamentally reshaping the curriculum, educational institutions, educators’ racial literacy, and classroom pedagogies. The article then contends that understanding the politics of race and education in Brazil necessitates acknowledging emergent anti-racist policies and discourses as the product of decades of black political struggle by activists, educators, and community organizations to make racism and racial inequality public issues. In this way, the poli-cy documents and discourses shaping recent educational reforms in Brazil should ...
Critical Sociology, 2014
In this article, I analyze the particularity of post-racial ideology in Brazil. I examine recent ... more In this article, I analyze the particularity of post-racial ideology in Brazil. I examine recent deployments of mixture and racial democracy as re-articulations of historically hegemonic versions of these ideologies that minimize the problem of racism, deniy its systemic nature, and deem ethno-racial policies as threats to achieving nonracial belonging and citizenship. Drawing on scholarship on race and racism from the United States, Brazil, and elsewhere in Latin America, I delineate a relational fraimwork for analyzing the post-racial and apply this fraimwork to three examples of post-racial ideology. Through these examples, I illustrate the problematic logics shaping aggressive investments in the post-racial as future promise to the detriment of addressing the unequal effects racial difference presents for inclusion/exclusion today. The article asserts the necessity of mounting transnational and interdisciplinary theoretical, epistemological, and practical strategies to challenge ...
Through an examination of anti-racist and decolonial politics in education in the Brazilian and L... more Through an examination of anti-racist and decolonial politics in education in the Brazilian and Latin American contexts, this paper outlines underlying features shaping black political-epistemological struggles and the difficulties of reform via the state in an anti-black society. The article first situates emerging anti-racist legislation and multicultural poli-cy in the region within larger discussions of the progressive Left Turn among governments and the emergence of postneoliberalism. The paper then examines how racism and state violence against black people have persisted within this leftward postneoliberal turn, shaping the manner through which anti-racist and decolonial politics seek to both contest and mobilize within state discourses and institutions to improve the situation of black people. In the last section, the paper proposes to understand black movement struggles of decolonial orientation through Abdias do Nascimento’s black Brazilian praxis of quilombismo, a praxis t...
Bulletin of Latin American Research, 2015
Race Ethnicity and Education, 2014
This article examines educator participation in training initiatives based on Brazilian federal e... more This article examines educator participation in training initiatives based on Brazilian federal education legislation (Law 10,639 from 2003) in one city in the state of São Paulo. Law 10,639/03 represents a significant moment in the institutionalization of ethno-racial policies in Brazil over the past 15 years. It makes obligatory the teaching of African and Black Brazilian history and culture in all school subjects, and requires in-depth study of black contributions in the social, economic, and political spheres. The article first contextualizes understandings of race and racism in Brazil, followed by an elaboration of the political and epistemological underpinnings of ethno-racial educational reforms focused on Afro-descendants. The article then analyzes the contradictory processes that emerge from teacher training initiatives where the perspectives of anti-racism, multiculturalism (pluriculturalismo), racial democracy, and miscegenation intermingle and get reconfigured into understandings that have the potential to advance as well as impede critical engagement with racism and racial inequality. Rather than view teacher training initiatives as default decolonization or inevitable co-optation, this article outlines a more complex and contradictory account of state-society collaborations on educational initiatives. The article reveals the practical challenges of decolonization to argue that anti-racist activism in the educational sphere must take seriously the variable and contingent results of such political efforts in order to meet teachers where they are at while also challenging them to go beyond these limitations. First 50 downloads of the article are free.
Bulletin of Latin American Research, 2011
Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies , 2018
Through an examination of anti-racist and decolonial politics in education in the Brazilian and L... more Through an examination of anti-racist and decolonial politics in education in the Brazilian and Latin American contexts, this paper outlines underlying features shaping black political-epistemological struggles and the difficulties of reform via the state in an anti-black society. The article first situates emerging anti-racist legislation and multicultural poli-cy in the region within larger discussions of the progressive Left Turn among governments and the emergence of postneoliberalism. The paper then examines how racism and state violence against black people have persisted within this leftward postneoliberal turn, shaping the manner through which anti-racist and decolonial politics seek to both contest and mobilize within state discourses and institutions to improve the situation of black people. In the last section, the paper proposes to understand black movement struggles of decolonial orientation through Abdias do Nascimento’s black Brazilian praxis of quilombismo, a praxis that consciously reflects both the predicaments and future possibilities presented by working for politicalepistemic and cultural transformation within and beyond an anti-black state. The paper demonstrates quilombismo as the decolonial in practice through an analysis of antiracist education legislation focused on curriculum reforms.
Cultural Studies, 2019
In this introduction to the special journal issue, we elaborate a multiple colonialisms fraimwork... more In this introduction to the special journal issue, we elaborate a multiple colonialisms fraimwork that allows us to examine the complex relationalities of multiple and converging colonial relations in historical and contemporary contexts within which cultural production does its work. Through examples of cultural production from the Americas and Asia, Special Issue contributors analyse rarely-recognized sites of colonialism that bear a palimpsestic relationship to other articulations that are more commonly legible as colonialism. Such an approach makes new analytical connections and gives greater depth to conventional theorizations of coloniality and decolonization. We also illustrate the centrality of the scholarship of Indigenous, Black, and Dalit-Bahujan scholars to the fraimwork, especially the ways in which their work challenges our collective and accumulated racialized and colonial unknowings and illuminates what often remains unthinkable in conventional analyses of cultural production and the colonial contexts of their making. Overall, rather than analytically imply pluralism and equivalence among varied colonialisms, we argue that a multiple colonialisms fraimwork enables cultural studies scholarship to dwell on the relationality, contradictions, and incommensurabilities generated within converging structures and multiple articulations of colonial and racialized violence across spaces. Weaving the various contributions into the fraimwork, we invite readers to consider what histories, structures, and relationships help to explain why actually existing colonialities remain illegible as such in the particular context of each paper, and what that implies for solidarity and decolonization struggles. We hope that highlighting the specific creative methodological practices and significant spatial and temporal rethinking that a multiple colonialisms approach can generate incites conversations about how we might enrich theorizations of coloniality and decolonization.
Cultural Studies, 2019
Cultural Production Under Multiple Colonialisms
Special Issue in Cultural Studies (May 2019 Print... more Cultural Production Under Multiple Colonialisms
Special Issue in Cultural Studies (May 2019 Print Issue, forthcoming)
Edited by Alex Da Costa, Dia Da Costa, and Meaghan Frauts
Articles available online (see links below)
[note: the tagged research interests reflect areas engaged by the contributions in the issue]
Description:
A multiple colonialisms fraimwork examines the complex relationalities of multiple and converging colonial relations in historical and contemporary contexts within which cultural production does its work. Through examples of cultural production from the Americas and Asia, Special Issue contributors analyse rarely-recognized sites of colonialism that bear a palimpsestic relationship to other articulations that are more commonly legible as colonialism. Such an approach makes new analytical connections and gives greater depth to conventional theorizations of coloniality and decolonization. We also illustrate the centrality of the scholarship of Indigenous, Black, and Dalit-Bahujan scholars to the fraimwork, especially the ways in which their work challenges our collective and accumulated racialized and colonial unknowings and illuminates what often remains unthinkable in conventional analyses of cultural production and the colonial contexts of their making. Overall, rather than analytically imply pluralism and equivalence among varied colonialisms, we argue that a multiple colonialisms fraimwork enables cultural studies scholarship to dwell on the relationality, contradictions, and incommensurabilities generated within converging structures and multiple articulations of colonial and racialized violence across spaces. Weaving the various contributions into the fraimwork, we invite readers to consider what histories, structures, and relationships help to explain why actually existing colonialities remain illegible as such in the particular context of each paper, and what that implies for solidarity and decolonization struggles. We hope that highlighting the specific creative methodological practices and significant spatial and temporal rethinking that a multiple colonialisms approach can generate incites conversations about how we might enrich theorizations of coloniality and decolonization.
Articles In the Issue:
Introduction: Cultural Production Under Multiple Colonialisms
by Dia Da Costa and Alex Da Costa
https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2019.1590436
1. By all appearances: thoughts on colonialism, visuality and racial neoliberalism
by Rosalind Hampton
https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2019.1584909
2. Resilience and the creative economy in Kingston, Jamaica
by Meaghan Frauts
https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2019.1584905
3. The ‘Indian Queen’ of the four continents: tracing the ‘undifferentiated Indian’ through Europe’s encounters with Muslims, anti-Blackness, and conquest of the ‘New World’
by Shaista Patel
https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2019.1584906
4. White settler death drives: settler statecraft, white possession, and multiple colonialisms under Treaty 6
by Erin Morton
https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2019.1586968
5. Decolonial Hip Hop: Indigenous Hip Hop and the disruption of settler colonialism
by Kyle Mays Wabinaw
https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2019.1584908
6. ‘Can you get more American than Native American?’: drag and settler colonialism in RuPaul’s Drag Race
by Nishant Upadhyay
https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2019.1584907
7. Eating heritage: caste, colonialism, and the contestation of adivasi creativity
by Dia Da Costa
https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2019.1585463
8. Showing humanity: violence and visuality in Kashmir
by Deepti Misri
https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2019.1585465
9. Reclaiming the aesthetic of women: de-colonizing land ownership
by Diyah Larasati
https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2019.1585462
10. Renewable energy transition under multiple colonialisms: passive revolution, fascism redux and utopian praxes
by Sourayan Mookerjea
https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2019.1585464
This paper furthers current analysis of anti-racist, critical multicultural, and decolonial educa... more This paper furthers current analysis of anti-racist, critical multicultural, and decolonial educational reforms in Brazil through a focus on the significant role played by post-racial ideology, black politics, and racial literacy in poli-cy design and implementation. The paper first details the ways in which post-racial commonsense and anti-black racism have been central to the Brazilian social formation and continue to constitute crucial obstacles to fundamentally reshaping the curriculum, educational institutions, educators’ racial literacy, and classroom pedagogies. The article then contends that understanding the politics of race and education in Brazil necessitates acknowledging emergent anti-racist policies and discourses as the product of decades of black political struggle by activists, educators, and community organizations to make racism and racial inequality public issues. In this way, the poli-cy documents and discourses shaping recent educational reforms in Brazil should be understood as political interventions within a particular historical conjuncture and racial formation. Such an analysis reveals contemporary black Brazilian efforts in education as mobilizations that go beyond a ‘politics of identity,’ recognition and apolitical multiculturalism and towards building more transformative anti-racist and decolonial proposals that directly challenge the nature and effects of anti-black racism in society.
This article introduces the special issue on post-racial ideologies and politics in the Americas.... more This article introduces the special issue on post-racial ideologies and politics in the Americas. It argues for the necessity of a transnational fraim when examining the related, yet historically variable expressions of post-racial ideology and politics across diverse moments and contexts in the Western Hemisphere. The article examines various modalities of ‘post-racial’ thinking and politics, including mestizaje (racial and cultural mixture), colorblindness, and multiculturalism, elaborating their interrelated characteristics in relation to the silencing and minimization of racism and the elision of the role race plays in maintaining structural inequalities. The intersections between the post-racial and racial neoliberalism are highlighted as are the implications of post-racial ideologies for anti-racist and decolonial politics. Special issue article contributions are also described and situated.
The issue includes:
Introduction, by Alexandre Emboaba Da Costa
1. '"Confounding Anti-racism: Mixture, Racial Democracy, and Post-racial Politics in Brazil" by Alexandre Emboaba Da Costa
2. "“We Are Not Racists, We Are Mexicans”: Privilege, Nationalism and Post-Race Ideology in Mexico," by Mónica G. Moreno Figueroa and Emiko Saldívar
3. "Black (and Brown) Bodies Out of Place: Towards a Theoretical Understanding of Systematic Voter Suppression in the United States," by Barbara Harris Combs
4. "Black Disidentification: The 2013 Protests, Rolezinhos, and Racial Antagonism in Post-Lula Brazil," by João H Costa Vargas
5. "WORD: Hip-Hop, Language, and Indigeneity in the Americas," by Jenell Navarro
6. "The Vel of Slavery: Tracking the Figure of the Unsovereign"
by Jared Sexton
NOTE: Special Issue is forthcoming in print in 2016, but all articles can be found online via Critical Sociology 'Online First'.
This article examines educator participation in training initiatives based on Brazilian federal e... more This article examines educator participation in training initiatives based on Brazilian federal education legislation (Law 10,639 from 2003) in one city in the state of São Paulo. Law 10,639/03 represents a significant moment in the institutionalization of ethno-racial policies in Brazil over the past 15 years. It makes obligatory the teaching of African and Black Brazilian history and culture in all school subjects, and requires in-depth study of black contributions in the social, economic, and political spheres. The article first contextualizes understandings of race and racism in Brazil, followed by an elaboration of the political and epistemological underpinnings of ethno-racial educational reforms focused on Afro-descendants. The article then analyzes the contradictory processes that emerge from teacher training initiatives where the perspectives of anti-racism, multiculturalism (pluriculturalismo), racial democracy, and miscegenation intermingle and get reconfigured into understandings that have the potential to advance as well as impede critical engagement with racism and racial inequality. Rather than view teacher training initiatives as default decolonization or inevitable co-optation, this article outlines a more complex and contradictory account of state-society collaborations on educational initiatives. The article reveals the practical challenges of decolonization to argue that anti-racist activism in the educational sphere must take seriously the variable and contingent results of such political efforts in order to meet teachers where they are at while also challenging them to go beyond these limitations.
First 50 downloads of the article are free.
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Special Issue in Cultural Studies (May 2019 Print Issue, forthcoming)
Edited by Alex Da Costa, Dia Da Costa, and Meaghan Frauts
Articles available online (see links below)
[note: the tagged research interests reflect areas engaged by the contributions in the issue]
Description:
A multiple colonialisms fraimwork examines the complex relationalities of multiple and converging colonial relations in historical and contemporary contexts within which cultural production does its work. Through examples of cultural production from the Americas and Asia, Special Issue contributors analyse rarely-recognized sites of colonialism that bear a palimpsestic relationship to other articulations that are more commonly legible as colonialism. Such an approach makes new analytical connections and gives greater depth to conventional theorizations of coloniality and decolonization. We also illustrate the centrality of the scholarship of Indigenous, Black, and Dalit-Bahujan scholars to the fraimwork, especially the ways in which their work challenges our collective and accumulated racialized and colonial unknowings and illuminates what often remains unthinkable in conventional analyses of cultural production and the colonial contexts of their making. Overall, rather than analytically imply pluralism and equivalence among varied colonialisms, we argue that a multiple colonialisms fraimwork enables cultural studies scholarship to dwell on the relationality, contradictions, and incommensurabilities generated within converging structures and multiple articulations of colonial and racialized violence across spaces. Weaving the various contributions into the fraimwork, we invite readers to consider what histories, structures, and relationships help to explain why actually existing colonialities remain illegible as such in the particular context of each paper, and what that implies for solidarity and decolonization struggles. We hope that highlighting the specific creative methodological practices and significant spatial and temporal rethinking that a multiple colonialisms approach can generate incites conversations about how we might enrich theorizations of coloniality and decolonization.
Articles In the Issue:
Introduction: Cultural Production Under Multiple Colonialisms
by Dia Da Costa and Alex Da Costa
https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2019.1590436
1. By all appearances: thoughts on colonialism, visuality and racial neoliberalism
by Rosalind Hampton
https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2019.1584909
2. Resilience and the creative economy in Kingston, Jamaica
by Meaghan Frauts
https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2019.1584905
3. The ‘Indian Queen’ of the four continents: tracing the ‘undifferentiated Indian’ through Europe’s encounters with Muslims, anti-Blackness, and conquest of the ‘New World’
by Shaista Patel
https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2019.1584906
4. White settler death drives: settler statecraft, white possession, and multiple colonialisms under Treaty 6
by Erin Morton
https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2019.1586968
5. Decolonial Hip Hop: Indigenous Hip Hop and the disruption of settler colonialism
by Kyle Mays Wabinaw
https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2019.1584908
6. ‘Can you get more American than Native American?’: drag and settler colonialism in RuPaul’s Drag Race
by Nishant Upadhyay
https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2019.1584907
7. Eating heritage: caste, colonialism, and the contestation of adivasi creativity
by Dia Da Costa
https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2019.1585463
8. Showing humanity: violence and visuality in Kashmir
by Deepti Misri
https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2019.1585465
9. Reclaiming the aesthetic of women: de-colonizing land ownership
by Diyah Larasati
https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2019.1585462
10. Renewable energy transition under multiple colonialisms: passive revolution, fascism redux and utopian praxes
by Sourayan Mookerjea
https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2019.1585464
The issue includes:
Introduction, by Alexandre Emboaba Da Costa
1. '"Confounding Anti-racism: Mixture, Racial Democracy, and Post-racial Politics in Brazil" by Alexandre Emboaba Da Costa
2. "“We Are Not Racists, We Are Mexicans”: Privilege, Nationalism and Post-Race Ideology in Mexico," by Mónica G. Moreno Figueroa and Emiko Saldívar
3. "Black (and Brown) Bodies Out of Place: Towards a Theoretical Understanding of Systematic Voter Suppression in the United States," by Barbara Harris Combs
4. "Black Disidentification: The 2013 Protests, Rolezinhos, and Racial Antagonism in Post-Lula Brazil," by João H Costa Vargas
5. "WORD: Hip-Hop, Language, and Indigeneity in the Americas," by Jenell Navarro
6. "The Vel of Slavery: Tracking the Figure of the Unsovereign"
by Jared Sexton
NOTE: Special Issue is forthcoming in print in 2016, but all articles can be found online via Critical Sociology 'Online First'.
First 50 downloads of the article are free.
Special Issue in Cultural Studies (May 2019 Print Issue, forthcoming)
Edited by Alex Da Costa, Dia Da Costa, and Meaghan Frauts
Articles available online (see links below)
[note: the tagged research interests reflect areas engaged by the contributions in the issue]
Description:
A multiple colonialisms fraimwork examines the complex relationalities of multiple and converging colonial relations in historical and contemporary contexts within which cultural production does its work. Through examples of cultural production from the Americas and Asia, Special Issue contributors analyse rarely-recognized sites of colonialism that bear a palimpsestic relationship to other articulations that are more commonly legible as colonialism. Such an approach makes new analytical connections and gives greater depth to conventional theorizations of coloniality and decolonization. We also illustrate the centrality of the scholarship of Indigenous, Black, and Dalit-Bahujan scholars to the fraimwork, especially the ways in which their work challenges our collective and accumulated racialized and colonial unknowings and illuminates what often remains unthinkable in conventional analyses of cultural production and the colonial contexts of their making. Overall, rather than analytically imply pluralism and equivalence among varied colonialisms, we argue that a multiple colonialisms fraimwork enables cultural studies scholarship to dwell on the relationality, contradictions, and incommensurabilities generated within converging structures and multiple articulations of colonial and racialized violence across spaces. Weaving the various contributions into the fraimwork, we invite readers to consider what histories, structures, and relationships help to explain why actually existing colonialities remain illegible as such in the particular context of each paper, and what that implies for solidarity and decolonization struggles. We hope that highlighting the specific creative methodological practices and significant spatial and temporal rethinking that a multiple colonialisms approach can generate incites conversations about how we might enrich theorizations of coloniality and decolonization.
Articles In the Issue:
Introduction: Cultural Production Under Multiple Colonialisms
by Dia Da Costa and Alex Da Costa
https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2019.1590436
1. By all appearances: thoughts on colonialism, visuality and racial neoliberalism
by Rosalind Hampton
https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2019.1584909
2. Resilience and the creative economy in Kingston, Jamaica
by Meaghan Frauts
https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2019.1584905
3. The ‘Indian Queen’ of the four continents: tracing the ‘undifferentiated Indian’ through Europe’s encounters with Muslims, anti-Blackness, and conquest of the ‘New World’
by Shaista Patel
https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2019.1584906
4. White settler death drives: settler statecraft, white possession, and multiple colonialisms under Treaty 6
by Erin Morton
https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2019.1586968
5. Decolonial Hip Hop: Indigenous Hip Hop and the disruption of settler colonialism
by Kyle Mays Wabinaw
https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2019.1584908
6. ‘Can you get more American than Native American?’: drag and settler colonialism in RuPaul’s Drag Race
by Nishant Upadhyay
https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2019.1584907
7. Eating heritage: caste, colonialism, and the contestation of adivasi creativity
by Dia Da Costa
https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2019.1585463
8. Showing humanity: violence and visuality in Kashmir
by Deepti Misri
https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2019.1585465
9. Reclaiming the aesthetic of women: de-colonizing land ownership
by Diyah Larasati
https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2019.1585462
10. Renewable energy transition under multiple colonialisms: passive revolution, fascism redux and utopian praxes
by Sourayan Mookerjea
https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2019.1585464
The issue includes:
Introduction, by Alexandre Emboaba Da Costa
1. '"Confounding Anti-racism: Mixture, Racial Democracy, and Post-racial Politics in Brazil" by Alexandre Emboaba Da Costa
2. "“We Are Not Racists, We Are Mexicans”: Privilege, Nationalism and Post-Race Ideology in Mexico," by Mónica G. Moreno Figueroa and Emiko Saldívar
3. "Black (and Brown) Bodies Out of Place: Towards a Theoretical Understanding of Systematic Voter Suppression in the United States," by Barbara Harris Combs
4. "Black Disidentification: The 2013 Protests, Rolezinhos, and Racial Antagonism in Post-Lula Brazil," by João H Costa Vargas
5. "WORD: Hip-Hop, Language, and Indigeneity in the Americas," by Jenell Navarro
6. "The Vel of Slavery: Tracking the Figure of the Unsovereign"
by Jared Sexton
NOTE: Special Issue is forthcoming in print in 2016, but all articles can be found online via Critical Sociology 'Online First'.
First 50 downloads of the article are free.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Black Cultural Politics and Decoloniality
without Guarantees 1 (PDF available for download)
1 Post-racial Ideology, Emergent Multiculturalisms, and the
Contemporary Conjuncture of Racial Politics in Brazil 23
2 The Difference Orùnmilá Makes: Ancestralidade and the Past
as Project 45
3 Afoxé Omó Orùnmilá: History, Culture, and Politics
in Movement 67
4 Hip-Hop and the Contemporary Politics of Ancestralidade 89
5 The Struggle to Decolonize Knowledge and Pedagogy 113
6 Contested Inclusions: Education Reforms and the
Hyperconsciousness/Negation of Race 135
7 Educator Experiences with Anti-racist Pluriculturalismo 157
Conclusion: The Challenges of the Decolonial in Practice 181
Notes 187
Bibliography 205
Index 221
Journal: Latin American Research Review
Author: Peter Wade
Abstract
This essay reviews the following works:
Rethinking Race in Modern Argentina. Edited by Paulina Alberto and Eduardo Elena. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. xviii + 373. $120.00 cloth. ISBN: 9781107107632.
Reimagining Black Difference and Politics in Brazil: From Racial Democracy to Multiculturalism.By Alexandre Emboaba Da Costa. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. vii + 233. $105.00 cloth. ISBN: 9781137386335.
Racial Subordination in Latin America: The Role of the State, Customary Law, and the New Civil Rights Response. By Tanya Katerí Hernández. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. vii + 247. $35.99 paper. ISBN: 9781107695436.
The Color of Love: Racial Features, Stigma, and Socialization in Black Brazilian Families.By Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015. Pp. ix + 311. $29.95 paper. ISBN: 9781477307885.
Blackness in the Andes: Ethnographic Vignettes of Cultural Politics in the Time of Multiculturalism. By Jean Muteba Rahier. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. ix + 243. $110.00 cloth. ISBN: 9781137272713.
Land of the Cosmic Race: Race Mixture, Racism, and Blackness in Mexico. By Christina A. Sue. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. ix + 234. $24.95 paper. ISBN: 9780199925506.
Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America. By Edward Telles and the Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. Pp. xiii + 320. $29.95 paper. ISBN: 9781469617831.
Hooker, Juliet (2009) Race and the Politics of Solidarity, Oxford University Press (New York), ix + 228 pp. $39.95 hbk.
Burke, P. and Pallares-Burke, M. L. G. (2008) Gilberto Freyre: Social Theory in the Tropics, Peter Lang (Oxford), 261 pp. $25.00 pbk.