1st Edition
Racism and Racial Surveillance Modernity Matters
PART 1
1. Introduction
Sheila Khan, Nazir Can and Helena Machado
2. Empire and literature: from the schism of race to the seism of the "other"
Nazir Ahmed Can and Rita Chaves
3. Breaking the complicity between the aesthetic device and the colonial device: Afro-Brazilian art, Afro-descendant black art
Márcio Seligmann-Silva
4. Black modernities, social memory and experiences of insubordination
Mário Augusto Medeiros da Silva
5. Cape Verde, Brazil and Portugal: dubious Atlantic triangulantions
Júlio Cesar Machado de Paula
6. "Look how beautiful we are"
"Negro" and negritude avatars in the islands of the south-western Indian Ocean: Hybridity and "racialised" thinking
Valérie Magdelaine-Andrianjafitrimo
7. Insidious Invisibilities: World-Literature, ‘Race’, and Resistance
Paulo de Medeiros
PART 2
8. Postcolonial Racial Surveillance through Forensic Genetics
Sheila Khan and Helena Machado
9. Politics of (Non)Belonging: Enacting Imaginaries of Affected Publics Through Forensic Genetic Technologies
Nina Amelung
10. The (re)invocation of race in forensic genetics through forensic DNA phenotyping technology
Filipa Queirós
Biography
Sheila Khan is Integrated Researcher at Communication and Society Research Centre, University of Minho, Portugal.
Nazir Ahmed Can is Professor at the Faculty of Translation and Interpretation at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona / Serra Húnter Fellow.
Helena Machado is Full Professor of Sociology and Dean of the Institute for Social Sciences, University of Minho, Portugal.
