Politics and Racism Beyond Nations: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Crises

✍ Scribed by J. P. Linstroth

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 394
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book brings together theoretical knowledge from diverse fields as anthropology, biology, neurology, peace studies, political science, psychology, and sociology to address key challenges that transcend borders. It demonstrates how differences are created on many levels to reveal how the “othering project” is evident through national policies of immigration, through aspiring nationalisms, through genocidal inhumanity, and the subsequent effects of such othering evident in racial trauma. It further argues that we cannot limit our understanding of racism to forms of “white nationalism” or “whiteness movements” in the developed world and regions but look to the global formulation of such discrimination in colonial histories. The book introduces each chapter by providing rich ethnographic narratives from informants based upon the author’s  research on nationalism, racism, genocide, terrorism, trauma, scientific tolerance, and love and peace as well as some auto-ethnographic narratives from the author’s research on these themes.

✦ Table of Contents

Foreword
References
Prologue
A Note on My Mentor
References
Acknowledgments
Permissions
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Outline of the Book
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Bibliography
Chapter 2: Immigration and Racism
Introduction
Myths on Race and Invasion of the “Caravan Horde”
Border Policies from Hell
Borders on Insanity?
Arundhati Roy on Indian Migrant Worker Oppression and India’s Fateful Coronavirus Crisis73
Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 3: Nationalism and Terrorism
Introduction
Celebrating Terrorism?
End of an Era for ETA? May Basque Peace Continue
Fear and Loathing for the So-Called New IRA
Footnoting History for the Sake of History and for the Sake of Peace
The Problems with an Imagined Community38
Nations, Nationalism, and Non-nation Political Movements
Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 4: Cultural Genocide, Genocide, and Amerindian Genocide
Deposition: Carlos
Deposition: Victor
Deposition: Ines
Deposition: Felipe
Deposition: Miriam
Introduction
Protecting the Most Vulnerable from Genocide
Will Ethnocide in Western China Become Genocide?12
Why Indigenous Lives Should Matter
Preventing Brazilian Indigenous Genocide and Protecting the Amazon
The Politics of Denial, the Brazilian President, and the Fate of Amazonia
Genocidal Disease (COVID-19) as It Is Happening in Amazonia
Bolsonaro’s Continuous Follies and the Extermination of Brazilian Indians
The Genocide We Are Allowing in Amazonia
Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 5: Racial Trauma and Racism
Introduction
A Racist President and Racist Trauma
What About the Amerindians During the Coronavirus Pandemic?
Coronavirus, Poverty, and Structural Violence
Malcolm or MLK?
Why Race Is Everything in America!
Why Natives in the United States Support #BlackLivesMatter
Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 6: Environment, Humanism, Science, and Tolerance
Introduction
Teaching Tolerance
Primates Are Us: Being Self, Being Others
Mother of Us All
The Science and Politics Behind the Brazilian Amazon Mass Fires39
Bolsonaro Fiddles While the Amazon Burns
Why the Developing World Cannot Flatten the Curve with Coronavirus (COVID-19) and Beyond
Why a Race Is Not a Virus and a Virus Is Not a Race
History and Science as Candles in the Dark
Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 7: Empathy, Love, and Peace
Introduction
It’s Not Batman, or Superman, or Wonder Woman, But Peaceworkers
In the Name of “Love”
What Is Love?
Why a “Re-indigenization” of Society Makes Sense
Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 8: Concluding Remarks
Bibliography
Bibliography
Index