This chapter analyses political processes and disputes that illustrate the contemporary engagement with the agenda of political anti-racism in the radical left and counter-hegemonic academic initiatives in the Spanish state/kingdom. My point of departure is the acknowledgment of what Sarah Ahmed has named as “anxious whiteness” and the analysis unfolds towards an exploratory cartography of the main modes of exp...
Este artigo analisaa interrelaçãoentre a produção de imagens da nação portuguesa como “multirracial” – uma nação homogénea através da miscigenação – e a negação do racismo por parte do Estado português: a repetiçãoda imagem de Portugal como uma país não-racista, mas simtolerante. Esta análise centrar-se-á nos discursos de representantes oficiais do Estado português, em particular na esfera parlamentar,e em rela...
The article starts from the assumption that the slow and unsatisfactory development of case law concerning racism in Europe needs to be addressed engaging with wider political and policy developments that have shaped the silence about race and racism. I propose an analysis of political texts, reports and academic literature, developed since the mid-1980s, that approached the discussion and negotiation of legal ...