Anti-Blackness Beyond U.S. and European Narrative I: Organizations, Institutions, and Immigration Policies

Session Submission Type: Invited Session (90 minute)

Description

This panel features scholarship that explores the features and consequences of anti-Blackness outside of a Western context. Past research has largely focused on anti-Blackness within the U.S. and Europe, partially as a consequence of the centrality of European institutions and people in promoting the dehumanization of African-descended people through the institution of chattel slavery. However, despite the extensive research on anti-Blackness, approaches to race from transnational and global perspectives, particularly beyond Western contexts, have been relatively understudied. This represents a severe blind spot within the sociology of race and ethnicity, especially given that different societies often have unique contours of racial inequality and meaning. This panel welcomes scholarship on blackness and its various manifestations across Latin America and the Asia-Pacific, anti-Black policies and practices that adversely affect those in the new Black diaspora, and theories of antiblackness and its implications beyond a Western context. We encourage researchers from all empirical and theoretical traditions who focus on institutions and contemporary immigration/integration policies and their connections to blackness, broadly conceived.

Sub Unit

• Special Session

Presider

• Rawan Arar, University of Washington

Individual Presentations

• African Migrants in China - Onoso Ikphemi Imoagene, New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD)

• "¿Tienes Papeles, Hablas Francés?”: Placing and Policing Blackness/Americanness in Mexico’s Migratory Flows - Lewis Miles, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

• Anti-Blackness in Cyber Spaces: Examining Opinions of Chinese Internet Users about African People - Jessica Halliday Hardie, CUNY-Hunter College; Xuemeng Li, CUNY-Hunter College

Discussant

• Adrienne Lee Atterberry, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Session Organizers

• Xuemeng Li, CUNY-Hunter College

• Tristan Ivory, Cornell University

• Jinwon Kim, Smith College