Race and the Colour-Line

The Boundaries of Europeanness in Poland
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-11238-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 526 g

Reihe: Studies in Migration and Diaspora

Race and the Colour-Line addresses the foundational ideas about race and colonialism in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and reconnects them to the global manifestations that influenced them. Focusing on race and colonialism, this book indicates a shift in the global racial discourse – an understanding of the specificity of Polish racism that can transform and add to our understandings of race in the West. Drawing on archival resources – manuscripts, documents, and records – from Poland and other parts of Europe, the book offers a compelling theoretical and historical context of race-making in the so-called ‘peripheral sphere’, while outlining the ways in which colonialism has been framed specifically within the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and its empire in the Atlantic world. Following a race-conscious social analysis, the significance and originality of this work lie in tracing the specificity of blackness in Europe, and the very particular, but often neglected case of black people in CEE. To chart all this commendably, premised on critical race studies, the author uniquely explores the everyday racialized experiences of people of colour from Sub-Saharan African descent living in contemporary Poland and brings to the fore the obscurities of race and racism in the country. Through ethnographic research, the author shows how these particular people perform multiple identities in their daily lives as part of the configuration of a racially complex society. The demonstration of the ‘globality of racism’ in this book examines the phenomenon of race beyond its usual context in the West, and as such will appeal to scholars from a range of disciplines including Sociology, Geography, Anthropology, Postcolonial, Polish, and Slavic Studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Balogun, Bolaji

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART ONE: Locating Poland within the racialized ‘Boundaries of Europeanness’

1 Eastern Europe: the ‘other’ Geographies in the Colonial Global Economy 1569 - 1795

2 Polish Lebensraum: the colonial ambition to expand on racial terms 1880s - 1930s

3 Eugenics, Race, and Nation formation in Central and Eastern Europe 1900s - 1940s

PART TWO: Living with experiences of race and racism

4 ‘Polish-Centrism’: Making sense of ‘race’ and racism in Poland

5 Introducing and Recontextualizing Racial Microaggressions in Poland

6 Nacjonalizm – ‘the Polish national character’

Epilogue: Demystifying race and racism in Poland

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bolaji Balogun is a Sociologist based in the Department of Geography at the University of Sheffield, UK, where his research focuses on Colonization, Race, and Racialization in Central and Eastern Europe, with a specific focus on Poland. He holds the prestigious Leverhulme Trust ECR Fellowship. He is a visiting Scholar in the Department of International Relations at Krakow University of Economics, Poland, and previously held the Leverhulme Trust Fellowship Abroad at the same University in Poland. He is also a visiting Scholar at The Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, City University of New York, United States. He received his Doctorate from the University of Leeds, UK.