Comparative Race and Ethnicity: A Blog Series

Scholars discuss migration, #BlackLivesMatter, and "colorblindness."

Three new books in the Stanford Series in Comparative Race and Ethnicity » will debut this Spring.

Publics and intellectuals alike have struggled to reconcile racial histories with emerging moral paradigms calling for racial equality. The resulting cultural narratives, from Brazil's "racial paradise" to the United States's new era of "colorblindness," have since been fraught with contradictions, obfuscations, and naiveté, but scholars continue to interrogate these issues in hopes of dismantling their logics and discovering ways forward. This week the blog will feature authors whose books, debuting this Spring, are part of the Stanford Series in Comparative Race and Ethnicity. Previous books published in this series include The Ethnic Project by Vilna Bashi Treitler and On Making Sense by Ernesto Javier Martínez. Published in collaboration with the Stanford Center for Comparative Race and Ethnicity, books in this series contend with questions of race and inequality in both national and transnational perspective.

 

Ethical Witnessing In A Time of Racial Phobia ⇨

How participating in protest helps dispel reflexive racism.

by PAULA IOANIDE

Tuesday

Dismantling the Racial Paradise ⇨

How migration to and from the U.S. is transforming notions of race in Brazil.

by TIFFANY JOSEPH

Wednesday

Deflating Colorblindness ⇨

How can racial inequality coexist with the prevailing narrative of colorblindness?

Thursday

Also read excerpts from
The Ethnic Project: Transforming Racial Fictions Into Ethnic Factions »
&
On Making Sense: Queer Narratives and Intelligibility »