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“Second generation”: a theoretical reflection on an ever-changing concept Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Marta Scocco
In recent decades, the issue of migrants’ children has received increasing attention within scientific research. This is due to the ongoing nature of the most current global migration phenomena. “S...
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“I could have married in Europe, if I wanted to” How black migrant men challenge moralizing and racializing discourses when returning to Senegal Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Karlien Strijbosch, Valentina Mazzucato
Marriage offers one of the few routes for Senegalese migrants to enter Europe and settle there legally, and it is often assumed that migrants marry just for a residence permit. “Marriage migration”...
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Relational entanglements of coloniality and asylum: British-Somali colonial genealogies and the Glasgow Bajuni campaign Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Emma Hill
This paper unpacks the ways in multiform colonialities of power, species of colonial power and genealogies of colonial power jostle for dominance at the contemporary UK asylum border. Grounded in t...
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List of Referees 1st September 2022 to 31st December 2023 Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2024-03-11
Published in Ethnic and Racial Studies (Vol. 47, No. 6, 2024)
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What’s new about new destinations? Cinderella states and the comparative study of migration Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Erica Dobbs
Immigrant political incorporation is a concern of Europe and the U.S., but the process in the latter is seen as more successful owing to its immigration history, minority politics, and institutions...
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Academic profiling in Britain? Exploring Black youth’s experiences of tracking in schools Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Derron Wallace
Based on 30 one-on-one in-depth interviews and 24 focus group interviews with 120 Black Caribbean pupils in one of the largest state secondary schools in South London, this article examines how Bla...
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Looping effects, settler colonialism, and the indigenous child removal system Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Dale Spencer, Raven Sinclair
Between 1950 and 1985, a period now referred to as the “Sixties Scoop”, over 24,000 Indigenous and Inuit children were removed from their families and placed into primarily non-Indigenous foster an...
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2023 Martin Bulmer Prize Winner Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 John Solomos
Published in Ethnic and Racial Studies (Vol. 47, No. 6, 2024)
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Latinx for whom? Reflections upon the linguistic shaping of Latin American identities in the United States Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Anahí Viladrich
This article critically examines the growing utilization of the term Latinx in the United States (US) as an all-inclusive, nonbinary ethnonym that challenges the injustices experienced by discrimin...
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Negotiations with whiteness in British Turkish Muslims’ encounters with Islamophobia Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Özge Onay, Gareth Millington
In the post-9/11 and 7/7 era in Britain, Muslim subjects have been racially labelled as non-white, equated with a security threat. Similarly, within Turkey's secular public sphere, Muslims are port...
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Protesting power-sharing: citizenship acts and eventful protest in divided societies Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 John Nagle
This article examines waves of citizen protest against the ethnic citizenship regime of consociational power-sharing. It seeks to contribute to research on power-sharing by bringing together the li...
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Loneliness among older ethnic minority people: exploring the role of structural disadvantage and place using a co-research methodology Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Natalie Cotterell, Tine Buffel, James Nazroo, Pamela Qualter
Limited research exists on the experiences of loneliness among older ethnic minority people. Yet, the ageing population is increasingly diverse and health inequalities are growing. It is therefore ...
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“A Roar of Rage”, “Toddlers with Guns” and “Eternal Bloody Protest”: some First Nations peoples’ perceptions about #BlackLivesMatter activism in Australia Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Marcelle Townsend-Cross, Kathomi Gatwiri
This article explores the experiences of First Nations participants as the #BlackLivesMatter protests burst onto Australian mainstream and social media platforms and onto Australian streets in 2020...
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Dark skin penalty, shame and resistance: negotiating colourism in UK families Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Aisha Phoenix, Nadia Craddock
Colourism – prejudice and discrimination penalising people with dark skin – can occur in many social settings, including within families. Drawing on qualitative research with women and men from dif...
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The far and extreme right in documentaries: euphemisation, exceptionalisation, and humanisation Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Luke Shuttleworth, Kevin Okonkwo, Flo Bremner, Aurelien Mondon
Much debate has taken place recently on the way in which far and extreme right actors are portrayed by mainstream media. Building on an international corpus of 30 documentaries, we combine discours...
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Absence makes the heart grow colder: the harmful nature of invisibility of contemporary American Indians Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Laurel R. Davis-Delano, Renee V. Galliher, Joseph P. Gone
In settler colonial societies, settlers employ various practices to eliminate, replace, and erase Indigenous Peoples. We posit that the rarity of representations of contemporary American Indians in...
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(Un)Doing reflexivity: white researchers on their credibility and legitimacy in the field of ethnic and racial studies Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Imane Kostet, Gert Verschraegen
Positionality and (racialised) positions of power have become crucial topics in the field of ethnic and racial studies, resulting in a growing number of self-reflexive papers on power relations in ...
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Unaccompanied migrant girls: navigating religious girlhood in the UK Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Rachel Larkin, Johanna Woodcock Ross
This paper focusses on unaccompanied migrant young women from Sub-Saharan Africa and the social workers who encounter them in the UK. Taking an intersectional approach, and drawing on notions of bl...
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Violence as method: the “white replacement”, “white genocide”, and “Eurabia” conspiracy theories and the biopolitics of networked violence Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Mark Davis
In this paper, I consider the “white replacement”, “white genocide”, and “Eurabia” conspiracy theories and the cycles of violence they have inspired, including mass murders in Norway, New Zealand, ...
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Restricted affiliation: the costs of otherness among Afroczechs Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Stephanie Rudwick, Angela Nwagbo
The increasing presence of African diasporic people in Europe and their identity politics have given rise to a proliferation of studies on their experiences, albeit with the exception of central ea...
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Ethnic associations in Katanga (DR Congo): dynamics of alliance and faction formation from a social capital perspective Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Erik Gobbers
The complexity of ethnic associational life in Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo, resulted from both the existence of associations representing ethnic groups, and alliances between related ethn...
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Unpacking the liberalizing potential of higher education: an analysis of academic majors, anti-Black prejudice, and opposition to immigration Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Maureen A. Eger, Mikael Hjerm, Paolo Velásquez
In this article, we challenge the prevailing assumption about the impact of higher education on attitudes toward racial and ethnic minorities by examining whether educational effects are monolithic...
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Interest convergence in the Land of the Cosmic Race: Mexican anti-racism and the motivation question Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 René Rejón
Recent contributions to the academic literature describe Mexican racism as structural: an unintended blameless outcome of the combined actions of many individuals and institutions. This conceptuali...
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The startling effect of the word race: a glance at racism in Turkey through the eyes of young men who support gender equality Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Çağlar Çetin-Ayşe
This paper focuses on the widely ignored racism and racialization in Turkey through the eyes of young men who selfidentify as feminist, pro-feminist, or gender-egalitarian. It draws on in-depth int...
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Introduction Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 John Solomos
Published in Ethnic and Racial Studies (Vol. 47, No. 3, 2024)
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Symposium on Derron Wallace's The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 John Solomos
Published in Ethnic and Racial Studies (Vol. 47, No. 3, 2024)
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Revisiting The Culture Trap: examining structural and cultural inequalities in London and New York City schools Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Derron Wallace
To date, sociological research on education and immigration, particularly in the United States, has largely neglected the role of schools in shaping the trajectories of Black immigrants and their c...
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Bordering subjectivities: the psychic holds of Britain’s asylum system Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Eve Dickson
Questions of subjectivity are increasingly key to critical studies of migration, which highlight the production of subjectivities as one of the central functions of borders. Yet the question of how...
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The travelling art installation Prijedor ‘92: transnational memorialisation and the 1.5 generation Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Johanna Paul
This article addresses the travelling monument Prijedor ‘92 dedicated to all civilian victims of genocidal violence in Prijedor, Bosnia–Herzegovina. The young Vienna-based artist Anita Zečić develo...
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Dealing with a violent past and its remnants in the present: the challenges of remembering the wars in Chechnya in the Chechen Diaspora in the EU Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Anne Le Huérou, Aude Merlin
This paper investigates how memories of a violent past are interpreted by different generations of exiles, particularly when the primary feature of memory in their homeland is forgetfulness. This o...
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Inherited traumas in diaspora: postmemory, past-presencing and mobilisation of second-generation Kurds in Europe Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Bahar Baser, Mari Toivanen
This article examines the way in which conflict-generated diasporas pass on collective memories of a violent past onto the next generation. It contributes to uncovering the intergenerational memory...
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Remembering and dealing with violent past: diasporic experiences and transnational dimensions Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Dilyara Müller-Suleymanova
Much of the world's migration today is driven by civil wars, armed conflicts, genocide and other forms of large-scale violence. These experiences have long-lasting effects on individuals who are fo...
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Memories of violence in the Rwandan diaspora: intergenerational transmission and conflict transportation Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Élise Féron
How are memories of a violent past in the country of origin reproduced, contested and reinterpreted by younger diasporic generations? And what consequences do processes of memory transmission of a ...
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Biography, belonging and legacies of the Yugoslav disintegration wars in the lives of postmigrant youth in Switzerland Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Dilyara Müller-Suleymanova
The article examines the life-stories of three young people who were born in Switzerland, but whose parents fled Bosnia due to the Yugoslav disintegration wars. These biographic portraits present t...
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Framing the present through the past: Ukrainian diaspora in France, Holodomor memory and the 2014 critical juncture Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Hervé Amiot
This article focuses on a rarely addressed aspect of the link between diaspora and memory construction: the use of historical analogies, i.e. the way in which the memory of a past event (the 1933 f...
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Diasporic group boundaries and solidarity in the making: collective memory in the anti-war protests in Sweden Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Sofiya Voytiv
Since the eruption of the war in Ukraine in February 2022, both Ukrainian and Russian diasporas in Sweden have been reframing themselves through memories, narratives and symbols. They have been rev...
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Ghostly ruins: conflict memories, narratives, and placemaking among Lebanese diasporas in Montreal Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Bruno Lefort
The memory of past conflicts remains largely obliterated among the Lebanese diasporas in Montreal. Nonetheless, it invariably resurfaces in public performance of the Lebanese identity in the city a...
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The effect of parental background on the potential education and employment of migrants’ children in Switzerland Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Jean-Marie Le Goff, Eduardo Guichard, Milena Chimienti, Claudio Bolzman, Nora Dasoki
This paper explores the relations between parental background, the education level reached and the socioprofessional position of children during their transition to adulthood. The paper links segme...
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Perceived discrimination and depressive symptoms among Muslims in the United States Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Melissa M. Sloan, Murat Haner
Recent research documents extensive Islamophobia and discrimination against Muslims in the United States. The current study seeks to better understand the discrimination experienced by Muslims and ...
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Is the migrant share really the problem? Size of migrant population and individual authoritarianism as major determinants of xenophobic attitudes Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Ayline Heller, Lisa Braunheim, Oliver Decker, Elmar Brähler, Peter Schmidt
Contact hypothesis and threat hypothesis are among the most influential theories of xenophobia. The former proposes that intergroup contact may reduce prejudice. The latter suggests that a large ou...
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Enumerating Australia’s “diverse”: ethnicity and raciology in census and workplace diversity surveys Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Amrita Malhi
The Australian Government has announced that from 2026, the nation’s census will enumerate its population by “ethnicity” instead of “ancestry,” a term it used until 2021. This decision’s advocates ...
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From the editor Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 John Solomos
Published in Ethnic and Racial Studies (Vol. 47, No. 1, 2024)
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Diversity assent: conceptualisation and an empirical application Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Eloisa Harris, Karen Schönwälder, Sören Petermann, Steven Vertovec
Recent evidence suggests that in many European countries generally positive views about societal diversity predominate. Yet, as research has rather focussed on negative attitudes towards immigratio...
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From privileges to rights: changing perceptions of racial quotas in Brazil Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Camille Giraut
This article analyzes how the implementation of affirmative action in Brazil has changed the way people, in particular potential beneficiaries of racial quotas, understand race, inequalities, and r...
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Nigerian Christians in Britain: post – migration religious change among the first generation in Edinburgh Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Emmanuel Chiwetalu Ossai
This ethnographic research examined post-migration changes in the religious affiliation and the frequency of church attendance and private praying of sixteen female and fourteen male (N = 30) Niger...
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Perceived discrimination and support for democracy among immigrants Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Gizem Arikan, Oguzhan Turkoglu
Does perceived discrimination and exclusion promote or hinder support for democracy among immigrants? While many studies investigate the drivers of prejudice and discrimination toward immigrants, r...
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Uncanny returns in settler colonial state: return, exile, and decolonization in Palestine/Israel Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Tiina Järvi
In this article, I propose uncanniness as a defining characteristic of return as I explore the settler colonial context of Palestine/Israel, where return has starkly ethno-nationalistic connotation...
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The flood, the traitors, and the protectors: affect and white identity in the Internet Research Agency’s Islamophobic propaganda on Twitter Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Bharath Ganesh, Nicolò Faggiani
Between 2015 and 2017, the Internet Research Agency (IRA) – a Kremlin-backed “troll farm” based in St. Petersburg – executed a propaganda campaign on Twitter to target US voters. Scholarship has ex...
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Reframing British history: teacher education after Black Lives Matter Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Sundeep Lidher, R. Bibi, C. Alexander
The Covid-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests have given renewed impetus to campaigns against racial inequality. In education, the issue of curriculum – and particularly the history curricu...
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Are Muslim experiences taken seriously in theories of Islamophobia? A literature review of Muslim experiences with social exclusion in the West Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Edin Kozaric
Scholars within Islamophobia studies are predominantly concerned with studying societies and actors that embody Islamophobic beliefs and practices. A common claim in this literature is that Islamop...
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Qur’an burning in Norway: stop the Islamisation of Norway (SIAN) and far-right capture of free speech in a Scandinavian context Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Sindre Bangstad, Marius Linge
Fringe political actors’ Qur’an desecrations in Scandinavia have over the past few years resulted in international media attention, diplomatic crises, calls for boycotts and pressures from Muslim s...
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Challenging ungrievability for people missing at sea. Search infrastructures, spaces of public mourning, and claims for justice Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Chiara Denaro, Paolo Boccagni
Since the so-called refugee crisis, the central Mediterranean Sea has been identified as the deadliest border in the world. As the border studies debate has shown, these deaths reflect the structur...
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Flows and modalities of global Islamophobia Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Bharath Ganesh, Iselin Frydenlund, Torkel Brekke
This editorial introduces the Special Issue on Global Islamophobia. Discussing the seven articles in the Special Issue, we critically assess current theorizations that contend that US imperialism a...
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Theorizing Buddhist anti-Muslim nationalism as global Islamophobia Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Iselin Frydenlund
In the wake of anti-Muslim violence in Buddhist majority states in Asia, increased scholarly attention is paid to anti-Muslim Buddhist nationalism. These studies have paid particular attention to h...
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Migration, collective remittances and religion: the growth of Alevi worship places (cemevi) in the rural homeland Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Hayal Hanoglu
The influence of transnational engagements on emigrant villages has attracted noticeable scholarly attention, however, the religious dimension of the link between migration and remittances remains ...
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The conquest of the suburbs: racial purification in Argentine gated communities Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Ricardo Greene
Rather than a radical new way of entangling space and society fashioned by late capitalism and neoliberalism, gated communities are the latest iteration of a long chain of power mechanisms devised ...
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The case of WikiIslam: scientification of Islamophobia or legitimate critique of Islam? Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Edin Kozaric, Torkel Brekke
In this article we introduce and utilize the concept scientification of Islamophobia to analyze a website called WikiIslam, and the way that its contents are used by websites and online users in a ...
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Babri retold: rewriting popular memory through Islamophobic humor Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Pratiksha Thangam Menon
The strategic mobilization of humor by Hindutva groups online contributes to the mainstreaming of supremacist ideologies that inform extremist behavior. Analyzing the social media recontextualizati...
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The ambivalence of Blackness in early twentieth-century Argentinian comics: “Página del Dólar” Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Peter Wade
This article explores a dual dynamic of simultaneous subordination and limited inclusion of Blackness in Latin America, using the example of a 1920s’ Argentinian comic strip, “Página del Dólar”. Th...
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“What have 6 million dead people got to do with football?”: How Anglo-Jewish football supporters experience and respond to antisemitism and “banter” Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.456) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Emma Poulton
Life-story interviews with 39 Jewish supporters of a football club whose quasi-Jewish identity is the catalyst for antisemitic abuse were used to explain the under-researched everyday experiences a...