Category: Europe

  • Imagining Ourselves: What Does it Mean to be Part of the African Diaspora? Think Africa Press 2013-11-21 Jean-Philippe Dedieu, Research Fellow IRIS of the École des Hautes études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) Tina Campt talks to Think Africa Press about black European subjectivities, the US’ dominance in diaspora studies, and how photographs tell us more…

  • From hair care to racism, Afro-Germans share experiences online DW: Deutsche Welle Berlin/Bonn, Germany 2013-12-18 Lori Herber, Cologne Two 20-somethings in Germany have launched krauselocke.de, the country’s first online portal with an Afro-German perspective. For many in the community, it’s more than hair advice – it’s a roadmap to identity After growing up with few…

  • Campaign highlights abuse of mixed-race Irish in institutional care The Irish Times Dublin, Ireland 2013-11-18 Marie O’Halloran, Parliamentary Reporter ‘I was in a class all of my own, beneath everybody else along with the dogs and the pigs’ A campaign has been launched for recognition of mixed-race survivors of institutional abuse who believe they suffered…

  • Book review: The Black Irish Onscreen: Representing Black and Mixed-Race Identities on Irish Film and Television Film Ireland Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland 2013-11-19 Sarah Griffin Zélie Asava, The Black Irish Onscreen: Representing Black and Mixed-Race Identities on Irish Film and Television (Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien: Peter Lang, 2013) Sarah…

  • 24,000-Year-Old Body Shows Kinship to Europeans and American Indians The New York Times 2013-11-20 Nicholas Wade The genome of a young boy buried at Mal’ta near Lake Baikal in eastern Siberia some 24,000 years ago has turned out to hold two surprises for anthropologists. The first is that the boy’s DNA matches that of Western…

  • ‘Longing for Oneself’: Hybridism and Miscegenation in Colonial and Postcolonial Portugal Etnográfica Volume VI, Number 1 (2002) pages 181-200 Miguel Vale de Almeida, Professor of Anthropology Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa This essay acknowledges that hybridism, in a troubling reminiscence of the 19th century debate on race and the hybrids is…

  • Irish and white-ish mixed “race” identity and the scopic regime of whiteness Women’s Studies International Forum Volume 27, Issue 4, October–November 2004 pages 385-396 DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2004.10.007 Angeline D. Morrison Falmouth College of Arts, Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom When speaking about the paradoxical “invisibility” of whiteness, I am referring in particular to Richard Dyer’s project to…

  • Afternoon Talk: Dr. Zélie Asava (Free Event) Irish Film Institute 6 Eustace Street Temple Bar Dublin, Ireland 2013-10-11, 16:30 IST (Local Time) Zélie Asava, Lecturer and Programme Director of Video and Film Dundalk Institute of Technology, Louth, Ireland In our Afternoon Talk on October 11th (16.30), Dr. Zélie Asava, Programme Director of Video and Film at…

  • Rheinland 2013 Mokoari Street Productions Berlin, Germany Written and directed by Lemohang J. Mosese Produced by Hannah Stockmann, Julius B. Franklin & Christian Wagner During the first World War the French government forced African men—many coming from Senegal or Cameroon —from their colonies to fight for the French army in the Rheinland. ​In 1919, there…

  • Germany elects its first two black MPs in breakthrough hailed as ‘historic’ The Telegraph 2013-09-23 Damien McElroy, Foreign Affairs Correspondent Berlin—Karamba Diaby and Charles Huber were elected for rival Left and Right political factions in Sunday’s general election to Germany’s parliament, the Bundestag. Both have Senegalese backgrounds but followed very different paths into politics… …Mr…