Mostly ‘black’ and ‘white’: ‘Race’, complicity and restitution in the non-fiction of Antjie Krog by Jacomien van Niekerk

“…Claims that Krog essentialises Africa and ‘black’ people are investigated. The article also addresses accusations of racism in Krog’s work. …”
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Transformative Pedagogy, Black Theology and Participative forms of Praxis by Anthony G. Reddie

“…This formative analysis is then followed by reflections on the significant developments in religious education by and for Black people, principally in the US. In the final part of the paper, I describe my own participative approaches to Black theology by means of transformative pedagogy, which utilises interactive exercises as a means of combining the insights of the aforementioned ideas and themes into a transformative mode of teaching and learning.…”
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“Gaucho primero, después hombre, después negro”. Identidad y relaciones en la pieza teatral El gaucho negro by Matías Emiliano Casas

“…The play The Gaucho Black of Claudio Martínez Payva, premiered in 1927 at the National Theatre in Buenos Aires, revealed a series of problems, such as: the link with foreign settlers, the construction of identity through the gaucho figure and the relationship with black people. This study provides new tools to analyze the Rioplatense society and culture in the early Twentieth Century.…”
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In the tracks of the impossible by Miguel Ángel Rosales

“…Arising from experiences of slavery and exile, flamenco was strongly influenced, (re)created, and (re)imagined by black people who lived in southern Spanish cities for over 400 years. …”
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<i>Ubuntu</i> and the body: A perspective from theological anthropology as embodied sensing by Jacob J.S. Meiring

“…<p>The author asks whether the notion of <em>ubuntu</em> truly exists within contemporary South African society and how the experiencing of South Africans� embodiment can be connected to <em>ubuntu</em> � especially amongst black people. The notion of <em>ubuntu</em> is briefly explored within law and theology. …”
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DEMOCRACY AND POLITICAL GOVERNANCE IN SOUTH AFRICA: TWO DECADES AFTER APARTHEID by Mpfariseni Budeli

“…In terms of the apartheid policy, the government belonged to the White people who enjoyed all human rights and were entitled to rule the country to the detriment of the Black people despite the latter constituting the overwhelming majority of the population. …”
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Memoria de la esclavitud y debate racial: la cuestión de la “identidad negra” en Cuba by Silvina Testa

“…In the memorial ways analyzed in this paper, there are connections between the servile past and the current social and economic conditions of black people in the country. The first part introduces the socio-historical context in which these new social actors are in, more specifically, the current debate about racism in Cuban society. …”
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Bridging the Gap between Self and Other ? Pictorial Representation of Blacks in England in the Middle of the Eighteenth Century by Élisabeth Martichou

“…In the middle of the eighteenth century a shift in the artistic representation of black people became perceptible in England. Several paintings illustrated a new attitude to the question of identity and differences between the races. …”
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Acerca del presunto (y discutible) origen mudéjar del autor del Taʾrij al-fattāš. by José Luis de Villar Iglesias

“…This chronicle is an essential source for the knowledge of the history of which Medieval Arabian writers called Bilād al-Sūdān, the Country of Black People. The aim of this article is to review the tradition kept within the family, that Maḥmūd Kāti’s father, descendant of a very old Andalusi lineage, settled in Western Sudan in the last third of 15th century, coming from the Iberian Peninsula.…”
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70 anos da guerreira: a mestiçagem brasileira na tradução musical de Clara Nunes by Expedito Leandro Silva

“…However, the cries of the people and the musical manifestation reproduced in the songs present an ideology of nationhood whose identity is the Brazilian miscegenation which means the cultures of the native Indians, the white and the black people.…”
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Studying and Challenging Racism in Higher Education: Naming Bad Faith to Understand the “Logic” of Racism by Antar A. Tichavakunda

“…For the actor who sees Black people as less than human, for example, no evidence will allow the actor to see otherwise. …”
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TOWARDS OTHER NARRATIVES: EDUCATION AND DERACIALIZATION OF THE BLACK EXPERIENCE IN BRAZIL by Priscila Martins Medeiros, Paulo Alberto dos Santos Vieira

“…Despite the processes of dehumanization endured by black people, they can and must be portrayed in educational spaces for their resistance and fight in order to escape from the zone of non-being and ontological erasure caused by modernity. …”
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Bangeni, B. & Kapp, R. (Eds.). (2017). Negotiating Learning and Identity in Higher Education: Access, Persistence and Retention. London: Bloomsbury by Reviewed by Taryn Bernard

“…The participants in the research are all part of a generation of young black people who have grown up in the new South Africa and are mostly first generation, working class and from single-parent families. …”
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Book Review: A Brief History of South Africa: From Earliest Times to the Mandela Presidency by Mandla J. Radebe

“…On the other hand, the liberal tradition considered South Africa as constituting a single nation with white people making up the core while black people in general, and Africans in particular, had to be integrated on the basis of meeting particular standards (Nxumalo, 1992).…”
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DEMOCRACY AND POLITICAL GOVERNANCE IN SOUTH AFRICA: TWO DECADES AFTER APARTHEID by Mpfariseni Budeli

“…In terms of the apartheid policy, the government belonged to the White people who enjoyed all human rights and were entitled to rule the country to the detriment of the Black people despite the latter constituting the overwhelming majority of the population. …”
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Fora do jogo? jovens negros no mercado de trabalho by Elisabete Figueroa dos Santos, Rosemeire Aparecida Scopinho

“…Based on the idea of youth as a social construction, we turn to history to show that the social apartheid of Blacks created in the slave system was widely supported in the post-abolition by government policies and ideological devices; redeemed social indicators of living conditions of Black people, especially on the position of youth in the formal labor market and, finally, consider the possible negative psychosocial history of stroke and identified inequalities for young people belonging to this ethnic racial group.…”
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“They Need to Go in There”: Criminalized Subjectivity among Formerly Incarcerated Black Men by Lucius Couloute

“…Black people are overrepresented in the American criminal justice system, yet policy-based criminal justice research has historically ignored the perspectives of criminalized Black people. …”
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I still have a right from an ancestor of that color: struggles of the Brazilian quilombola population by Iris Pontes Soares

“…The conclusion presents the level of racism present in Brazilian society, which operates to hide the instruments of struggle of the black people and how this had impacted today’s Brazilian working class. …”
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La Guadeloupe, une prison à ciel ouvert dans : Cent vies et des poussières de Gisèle Pineau by Noura Hamouche

“…We will also see how the Foucauldian principle of heterotopias can serve as an analytical tool to express the perdition of the Black people of Guadeloupe under the sign of slavery that seems to endure without saying its name. …”
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Amplifying the Black Voice Through Design by Terresa Moses

“…Throughout this visual essay, I will discuss the importance of community protest as a tool for racial justice, and how design can provide an opportunity to support and uplift the voice of Black people. …”
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