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"Based on the premise that the project of Western Modernity is a structuring element of our societies, Racism and Racial Surveillance explores in detail its legacies of coloniality and racialization that interfere in a subtle and perverse way in the current social, cultural and political systems. Guided by an interdisciplinary methodology, the various contributions privilege historical contexts of colonial formation and offer a thorough and intersectional analysis on the specters of coloniality in the upsurge of racism, surveillance, and criminalization, as well as the presence of the phantom of the race in spaces of knowledge production such as that of artistic field, forensic genetics and criminal identification. Drawing on multi case studies the book then proffers key concepts and historical background that will be of interest to researchers, students and professionals in a broad range of areas of social sciences and humanities research, including fields such as criminology and policing, science and technology studies, arts studies, literary studies, race and ethnic studies and, finally, memory studies"--

"Based on the premise that the project of Western Modernity is a structuring element of our societies, Racism and Racial Surveillance explores in detail its legacies of coloniality and racialization that interfere in a subtle and perverse way in the current social, cultural and political systems.
Guided by an interdisciplinary methodology, the various contributions privilege historical contexts of colonial formation and offer a thorough and intersectional analysis on the specters of coloniality in the upsurge of racism, surveillance, and criminalization, as well as the presence of the phantom of the race in spaces of knowledge production such as that of artistic field, forensic genetics and criminal identification.
Drawing on multi case studies the book then proffers key concepts and historical background that will be of interest to researchers, students and professionals in a broad range of areas of social sciences and humanities research, including fields such as criminology and policing, science and technology studies, arts studies, literary studies, race and ethnic studies and, finally, memory studies."

Verbs of movement reflect our identity's common denominator, such as to leave, to exit, to emigrate, to seek, to go in search. So much has been said of our situatedly Portuguese modernity that, in order to be great, we must wander outside our own dreams. We returned from our colonial and colonising saga with our mind and imagination already filled with imaginary baggage, of other centres, other 'discoveries' to be narrated. The Portuguese postcoloniality, although very anchored in the rhetoric of imperial nostalgia, restores, in a watchful gaze, these new movements and identity 'pilgrimages'. This paper seeks to develop a critical reading of the novel by Dulce Maria Cardoso, O Retorno (The Return), to critically reflect on the prefix 'post' in our recently conquered postcoloniality. It also seeks to incorporate a reflection on Portugal's place in the historic encounter with modernity and the centrality that resulted from 'docking' with Europe, denouncing the ambivalence and the exotopy with which the country represents and defines itself. At stake are the identity meanings produced in a context of sudden political and cultural transitions, which reveal a historical ballast comprising imperial imaginations and the lessening of the country within Europe and on the road of modernity. Between the return of imaginary empires and the illusions of new routes to old centres, the country renews its eternal cycle of returns and departures, symbolically digesting its losses in a process of identity ...

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgement -- PART 1 -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Empire and literature: from the schism of race to the seism of the "other" -- 3 Breaking the complicity between the aesthetic device and the colonial device: Afro-Brazilian art, Afro-descendant Black art -- 4 Black modernities, social memory and experiences of insubordination -- 5 Cape Verde, Brazil and Portugal: dubious Atlantic triangulations -- 6 < -- < -- Voyez comme nous sommes beaux> -- > -- "Negro" and negritude avatars in the islands of the south-western Indian Ocean: hybridity and "racialised" thinking -- 7 Insidious invisibilities: world literature, "race" and resistance -- PART 2 -- 8 Postcolonial racial surveillance through forensic genetics -- 9 Politics of (non)belonging: enacting imaginaries of affected publics through forensic genetic technologies -- 10 The (re)invocation of race in forensic genetics through forensic DNA phenotyping technology -- Index.

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