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21/02/23
 
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The boasblog „Undoing Race and Racism“ presents anthropological perspectives on racism and racist formations in Germany, where a new conjuncture has increased critical engagement with the ongoing effects of institutional, everyday and violent racism. You will find an introductory text by the editorial team here. Editorial Team: Manuela Bojadžijev (Humboldt-University Berlin), Katharina Schramm (University of […]
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Nasima Selim
21/02/23
Doing Public Anthropology in the Classroom
(Un) Learning ‘Race,’ White Fragility, and Mobilizing Antiracist Pedagogy in Germany
The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy. – bell hooks (1994, 12) Introduction  On 6 June 2020, thousands of people gathered at Berlin Alexanderplatz in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. #BlackLivesMatter Protest in Berlin Alexanderplatz on 6 June 2020 © Nasima Selim While a singular event does […]
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Sabelo Ndlovu-GatsheniKatharina Schramm
21/02/23
Institutional Transformation in South Africa and Germany
An Interview with Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Katharina Schramm (KS): In your book “Epistemic Freedom in Africa: Deprovincialization and Decolonization”, you make reference to W.E.B. Du Bois, who famously stated in “The Souls of Black Folk” that the problem of the twentieth century is the color line. Du Bois explicitly addresses racism and its specific articulation in the United States as a […]
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Sahana Udupa
21/02/23
A Pedagogy for Anti-Racism
Reflections from a Classroom and Beyond
In this blog piece, I build on classroom discussions triggered by an ‘image exercise’—when I invited students to choose an ideal image for the home page of any anthropology department—as a gateway to think through some pertinent issues that have emerged while teaching topics such as extreme speech, nationalism, racism and decoloniality at different institutional […]
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Manuela BojadžijevKatharina SchrammMihir Sharma
21/02/23
Undoing Race and Racism
Anthropological Interventions
In Germany today, critiques of racism, practices and forms of racialisation, and their multiple entanglements in anthropology have gained renewed prominence.  On the one hand, in academic discussions an expansive debate around museum practices and colonial collections (in ethnographic as well as natural history museums) has highlighted colonial histories and their  connections to the genealogies […]
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Manuela BojadžijevKatharina SchrammMihir Sharma
20/02/23
About
Undoing Race and Racism: Anthropological Interventions
In Germany today, critiques of racism, practices and forms of racialisation, and their multiple entanglements in anthropology have gained renewed prominence.  On the one hand, in academic discussions an expansive debate around museum practices and colonial collections (in ethnographic as well as natural history museums) has highlighted colonial histories and their  connections to the genealogies […]
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