To make the issue of in/visibility depend on physical appearance is to bracket out the historical realities of racist representation “And that is the point. Visibility is socially constructed and can change over time. For example, Irish immigrants were singled out by the authorities as a specially ‘dangerous’ class in the 1850s, whereas in the […]
In Daniel Randall’s review of my book for our shared organisation Workers’ Liberty, he raises the following critique: “One cannot hold water in one’s hands; a too fluid conception of the construction and reconstruction of “race” risk depriving it of any explanatory value whatsoever. In my own book, Confronting Antisemitism on the Left: Arguments for Socialists, […]
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This is a recording of the “Antisemitism as racism” panel with myself, Dr Dave Rich and Professor Dibyesh Anand at the University of Westminster on 11th May 2023.
“Political theorist Hannah Arendt, in The Origins of Totalitarianism, argued that racialisation and territorial expansion – two practices inherent to imperialism – laid the foundations for European fascism. Totalitarianism in Europe was an outcome of what Arendt termed the ‘imperial boomerang’. Similarly, poet and theorist Aimé Césaire argued in Discourse on Colonialism that Hitler ‘applied to Europe colonialist procedures […]
See here for my Geographical magazine piece.
Image from Wikimedia Commons: School strike for climate, Sydney, 2019.
Image from Wikimedia Commons: The Cow-Pock—or—the Wonderful Effects of the New Inoculation!—vide. the Publications of ye Anti-Vaccine Society, 1802 “In this cartoon, the British satirist James Gillray caricatured a scene at the Smallpox and Inoculation Hospital at St. Pancras, showing cowpox vaccine being administered to frightened young women, and cows emerging from different parts of people’s bodies. The cartoon […]
Diane Abbott’s comments published in The Observer on 23rd April 2023 differentiate between prejudice and racism, and claim that white people can experience prejudice but not racism. She cites the examples of “redheads”, alongside “Irish people, Jewish people and Travellers” – all of whom were not victims of South African apartheid or the racism of […]
NO PASARAN MEDIA | 15th June 2023 | NON FICTION | RRP £9.99 | C.Bassi@shu.ac.uk | media@nopasaran.media | Outcast is an explanation of how Jewish people’s experiences of racism have been cast out of the anti-racist imagination, as the very possibility of recognising anti-Jewish racism has been displaced by the commonplace leftist belief that when […]
