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racism

Fiction or reality?

SEX: Asymmetry highlights stories about gender roles, nationality and power and gives us an unforgettable asymmetrical experience, in both form and content.
Pinar Ciftci -

Poor people, unite you – across racialization

ECONOMIC DIFFERENCE: In an era when antiracism is being portrayed as identity politics and white poor people are being blamed for Trump, it is helpful to be reminded of Martin Luther King's attempt to bridge the fight against racism and economic inequality.
Nina Trige Andersen -

Sentenced to prison for his poetry

TEL AVIV: Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour was arrested and placed under house arrest by Israeli authorities in October 2015. Because of a poem. Well, she's out of house arrest. 3. March she comes to Oslo (at Vega, the salon).
Hans Henrik Fafner -

An explanation of European racism

Islamist tries to understand the background of Muslim conditions in Europe, but the explanation in his analysis is limited.
Nina Trige Andersen -

Israel is well on its way to apartheid

An Israel, now defined by the law as "Jewish," can no longer call itself democratic.
Hans Henrik Fafner -

The rage of democracy 

Among other things, a new book examines how democratic institutions have supported undemocratic practices such as slavery, discrimination and exclusion.
Niels Johan Juhl-Nielsen -

Cool, crazy fascism

New fascism has cast aside the seriousness of old fascism – it is loose and relaxed, it is fun. 
Mikkel Bolt -

Hidden everyday racism in France

In our daily lives we are constantly sacrificing the identity, identity and individuality of others at the altar of the group, writes French author Tania de Montaigne in a new book.
Ketil Fred Hansen -

Romance and Racism in Tekoa

A "leftist" Israeli filmmaker spends 30 days in an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, trying to get behind the stereotypes. 
Vibeke Harper -

Racism and class struggle

Only a radical abolition of the structural conditions for workers' exclusion – blacks as whites – could slow the ongoing social exclusion process in the United States, historian David Roediger claims in a new book.
Mikkel Bolt -

Black Power – Black Power

The first describes the situation, the second emphasizes setting up a program for change.
hhee@nytid.no -

Refugees: Art project stranded

Strong protests made Franco "Bifo" Berardi's planned performance Auschwitz on the Beach on Documenta 14 instead turned into poetry reading and panel debate.
Emma Bakkevik -

A left wing for the nation-state does not change anything

As global protests accelerated in the wake of the financial crisis, they nationalized the protests and paved the way for authoritarian isolationism
Mikkel Bolt -

Persistent systems of repression

People are no less racist because racism is forbidden.
Willemien W. Sanders -

Cape Town – the freedom town in the rainbow country

This winter, a racist debate exploded in South African media. Visiting Cape Town is like standing at a crossroads where the ghosts of the apartheid era meet progressive values.
Halle Jørn Hanssen -
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