“interruptions” as a point of departure to consider how paradigm shifts and local museologies can galvanize the museum sector, especially when it is confronted by the rise of right-wing populism, systemic racism, and neoliberal culture wars, intercultural
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Interruptions: Challenges and Innovations in Exhibition-Making
The Second World Museologies Workshop, National Museum of Ethnology (MINPAKU), Osaka, December 2019
Laura Osorio Sunnucks, Nicola Levell, Anthony Shelton, Motoi Suzuki, Gwyneira Isaac, and Diana E. Marsh
Laura Frader
An American scholar is often struck by the absence of race in France as a category of analysis or the absence of discussions of race in its historical or sociological dimensions. After all, “race” on this side of the Atlantic, for reasons having to do with the peculiar history of the United States, has long been a focus of discussion. The notion of race has shaped scholarly analysis for decades, in history, sociology, and political science. Race also constitutes a category regularly employed by the state, in the census, in electoral districting, and in affirmative action. In France, on the contrary, race hardly seems acknowledged, in spite of both scholarly and governmental preoccupation with racism and immigration.
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2000
- Article Type:
- Introduction
- Pages:
- 1–4
Theorising Race
Imagining Possibilities
Kira Erwin and Gerhard Maré
This special issue emerges from a concern with academic practice around researching and theorising race, racialism and racism; particularly within the current theoretical climate in which race is, in the majority, accepted as a social construct. In public thinking and discourse, however, acceptance of the biological existence of races continues to dominate in many societies. Racial classification also continues in many state practices in South Africa such as the collection of racial demographics though the national census, and through countless private and public officials reporting towards government-stipulated race-based employment acts. These classification practices raise contradictions for the constitutional goal of non-racialism in South Africa. South Africa has also signed and ratified the International Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Professional Interest/Pages/CERD.aspx), which aims to eliminate racial discrimination in member states. The convention, to which member states are legally bound, raises a number of pressing issues that, to date, are not present in a wider national debate on the continued use of race in South African state policy. For example, there is little recognition by the state of the difficulties associated with identifying a targeted group based on race, nor clarity as to whether these groups are identified through markers based on phenotype, or socio-economic or cultural differences. Nor is there open discussion on the use of terms such as fair and unfair discrimination and how they relate to terms such as distinction and differentiation (see Bossuyt 2000), and the legal consequences of using such terms.
Colonial Reform and Racism after World War II and the Making of Colorblind France, 1945–1950 (Vol. 33, No. 3, 1) THOMPSON, Christopher S . From Black-Blanc-Beur to Black-Black-Black ? “ L’Affaire des Quotas ” and the Shattered “Image of 1998” in Twenty
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2016
- Article Type:
- Addendum
- Pages:
- 155–157
Art of Solidarity
Cuban Posters for African Liberation 1967–1989
David Fleming
campaigning against racism and other forms of human rights abuses. Since its foundation in 2007, the ISM—home of the Federation of International Human Rights Museums (FIHRM) 2 —has featured exhibitions on imperialism; prostitution; domestic servitude; life in
Plantation Memories, Labor Identities, and the Celebration of Heritage
The Case of Hawaii's Plantation Village
Cristiana Bastos
, enslavement, racialism, post-empire diasporas, and reconfigurations of racism mostly refers to the Atlantic world, historians and anthropologists have also explored the Indian Ocean and Pacific areas. Be that through the conventional political economy approach
Eulalia Guzmán and Walt Disney’s Educational Films
A Pedagogical Proposal for “Literacy for the Americas” in Mexico (1942–1944)
María Rosa Gudiño Cejudo
Translator : Stephen Torgoff
first is the Rockefeller Archive Center (RAC), which holds the OIAA’s detailed reports on the different stages (preparation, testing, and conclusions) of its two cultural programs in Latin America, as well as DVD copies of the four films. The second is
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 61–77
Afterword
The Work of Culture, Heritage, and Musealized Spaces in “Unprecedented Times”
Christina Kreps
causes and fallout—that is, legacies of slavery and European colonialism; institutionalized racism and violence; and the structural inequalities of the capitalist world system. The articles stand as examples of engaged research and scholarship that seek
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Pegida as a European Far-Right Populist Movement
Helga Druxes and Patricia Anne Simpson
diverse pressures and anxieties coalesce on the spectral figure of the Islamic fundamentalist at Europe’s gates. Right populist groups profit from these anxieties by averring that the problem lies not with their own racism, which they strategically disavow
colonies was both expository and critical. Unlike his contemporaries, he refused to let racism and ethnocentrism taint his research. He inscribed black intellectual life and black experience into the historical narrative of France, and he did so from the
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2016
- Article Type:
- Abstract
- Pages:
- 151–154