Race and Identity in the Modern World

V3 N1Race and Identity in the Modern WorldEditor's Foreword

This issue features stories that enlighten on topics such as race in China-Africa relations, whiteness in the twenty-first century and contemporary expressions of modernity in Nigeria through music, art and Nollywood.

Race and Migration in Mozambique

Nafeesah AllenMarch 1, 2019

As a majority-black but multi-racial society, Mozambique’s nationalist rhetoric espouses full political equality of citizens of all racial groups; social integration, however, for both new and old immigrants (and their non-binary descendants) is still individually negotiated.

Culture & Society

Rethinking Race and Empire in Scotland

Henry DeeMarch 1, 2019

UncoverED, a student-led research project at Edinburgh University, is the latest iteration of an ongoing effort to challenge and re-shape Scotland’s understanding of race and empire.

Culture & Society

Nigeria's Changing Feminist Movement

Cynthia IgodoMarch 1, 2019

Like everywhere else, feminists in Nigeria are increasingly relying on social media to organize movements, protest, inform and reform society.

Culture & Society

Africa's Hidden Race Problem

Moses E. OchonuMarch 1, 2019

Africa is often erroneously perceived as a non-racial continent, a place where racial thought and practices are rare and where the manifestation of race is an aberration.

Culture & Society

Between America's Blackness and Whiteness

Aarshin KarandeMarch 1, 2019

How would one describe America now? How could one? To do so is as much an exercise in contradiction as self-incrimination. From which stories, which facts, which heroes and villains should the collective American story be narrated?

Culture & Society

Race in Sino-African Relations

Bénédicte KinkoloMarch 1, 2019

Culture & Society

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How Images Shaped the Anti-Apartheid Movement

Emmanuela OnyiloforMarch 1, 2019

In the struggle against Apartheid in South Africa, images were used as weapons against the oppressive government to attack the injustices of the system.

Politics & Security

The Case for a Common-Sense Rainbow

Jeff PearceMarch 1, 2019

Far too often, because of the sheer bulk of mass media, being white has been defined as what it is to be ‘White in America’ or ‘White in Britain.

Culture & Society

Rethinking Africa in Three Stories

Ẹniọlá Ànúolúwapọ́ ṢóyẹmíMarch 1, 2019

Culture & Society

Nollywood Nostalgia and the Modern Nigerian Woman

Merlin UwalakaMarch 1, 2019

Social media feeds featuring compelling visuals of old Nollywood are increasingly becoming sources of inspiration for female artists in Nigeria.

Culture & Society

Authenticity and the Alté Lineage in Nigerian Pop Culture

Yaa AddaeMarch 1, 2019

In his debut album, rare., Odunsi and his collaborators re-articulate an African creative philosophy of being many things at the same time.

Culture & Society

Black Orpheus and the Organic Intellectual

Adekeye AdebajoMarch 1, 2019

Culture & Society

Race and the Devaluation of Black Lives in America

Oyinkansola AdepitanMarch 1, 2019

Three books explain how America's construction of race continues to drive the devaluation of black lives in modern American society.

Culture & Society

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