Thinking race and racialization in the black majority world

Hugo ka Canham

Chapter 10 in Handbook on Politics and Society, 2025, pp 186-201 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Through figuring embodied existence in society, the chapter explores how people navigate and weather race, racialization, and racism in the black majority world—the African continent, Brazil, and the Caribbean. This focus excludes India and Asia, not because race and racism are absent there but due to a demarcation that attends to Africa and her diasporas in the global south. Race matters in the black majority world, but it matters in ways that are both coeval and discordant with the global north. Surfacing racial capitalism allows us to attend to the causes of the problem rather than attributing failures to inherent racialized qualities in groups of people. Stuart Hall points us to the fact that practices of representation implicate the position from which we speak or write. As the author, I am present in place and theory. My position of enunciation is South Africa but my outlook is one of black diasporic errantry.

Keywords: Race; Racism; Racial capitalism; Black majority world; African diaspora (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035301898
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