Anti-Racism Archives | Contending Modernities

The Sexual Politics of Ethno-Religious Nationalism

Jason Springs
July 21, 2021

What appears to be an isolated episode in sexual politics is, when placed in historical context, one surgent moment in a long contest over the identity and character of U.S. society.

Race, Ressentiment, and Nihilism in White Evangelical Christian Nationalism

Series: Zombie Nationalism

Jason Springs
July 1, 2021

Race is inextricably interwoven with Christian nationalism in the U.S. And racialized privilege—and various dynamics of racial animus—is an essential driver of the recurring waves of White evangelical Christian ethno-religious nationalism.

QAnon, Conspiracy, and White Evangelical Apocalypse

Series: Zombie Nationalism

Jason Springs
June 16, 2021June 23, 2021

Ethno-religious nationalism—and the distinctive logic and dynamics of zombie nationalism—forms the connective tissue between much White evangelicalism and QAnon conspiracy ideology.

Introduction to Zombie Nationalism

Series: Zombie Nationalism

Jason Springs
June 16, 2021July 30, 2021

The Trump-infused ethno-religious nationalism of White evangelicals is but the most recent upsurge of a political and cultural current that is traceable back at least sixty years, and indeed, much further.

An Afro-Jewish Critique of Jews Against Liberation

Lewis R. Gordon
March 26, 2021March 31, 2021

Identification with whiteness leaves no recourse from being identified with the enslaver and master. White Jewish evocation of Exodus thus reeks of hypocrisy so long as such a Jew insists on being white.

Buddhist Studies Has a Whiteness Problem

Constance Kassor
March 23, 2021March 23, 2021

Buddhist studies, on the whole, has not acknowledged, let alone addressed, issues of colonization, white supremacy, and the erasure of Asian people and cultures within the field.

On the Rhetoric of Jewish Solidarity: A Hebrew-Israelite’s Perspective

Series: Policing Analogies

Rabbi Walter Isaac
February 9, 2021

In the desire to demonstrate that Jews are on the right side of history, the (white and non-white) Jewish community’s problems with racism are often ignored.

White Supremacists Among Us—Discomfiting but True

Series: Policing Analogies

Lewis R. Gordon
February 2, 2021February 3, 2021

The idea that “real Jew” must be white is a feature of unfortunate misrepresentations of Jewish people primarily during the twentieth century, with steam gathered in its support since the late 1960s.

Radical Free Speech

Series: Secularism in France

Nadia Fadil
December 2, 2020December 2, 2020

Now anti-racist views, including academic ones, are also being charged with instigating hate and polarization.

France: A Sacred Union against Terrorism or against Muslims?

Series: Secularism in France

Houria Bouteldja
November 24, 2020November 25, 2020

The main aim of the establishment becomes clear: to foreclose the emergence of other interpretations of the tragic murder. To use all means possible to prevent the meeting of the two angers (white anger and the anger of racialized populations) and the possibility of their convergence. These must be separated and partitioned.

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