History, agency and the representation of ‘race’ – an introduction

Catherine Bergin; Anita Rupprecht

doi:10.1177/0306396815610229

History, agency and the representation of ‘race’ – an introduction

Catherine Bergin, Anita Rupprecht

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Abstract

This article argues that the complex interactions of history, race, agency, memory and trauma are both essential to, and negated by, contemporary dominant understandings of racism in the US and Europe. Both the lethal racist policing of black communities in the US and the fanatical racist policing of national borders by the EU are richly and disturbingly redolent of the violent raced labour practices which have authorised capitalist modernity.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3-17
Number of pages	15
Journal	Race & Class
Volume	57
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0306396815610229
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2016

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Cathy Bergin, Anita Rupprecht, History, agency and the representation of ‘race’ – an introduction, Race & Class (57:3) pp. 3-17. Copyright © 2016 (The authors). Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.

Keywords

Abolition
Ark of Return
Baltimore
Benjamin Lundy
Black Lives Matter
globalisation
memorialisation
Middle Passage
reparations
reparative history
‘refugee crisis’
slavery
slave trade

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History, agency and the representation of ‘race’ – an introduction

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