REMESO WORKSHOP 23/5 "Teaching white feminism, encountering (white) resistance"

[REMESO Newsletter]

Welcome to an open REMESO workshop:

"Teaching white feminism, encountering (white) resistance: challenges to gen-dering racism in the classroom"

May 23rd , 14-17:30 room TP55, House "Täppan", Campus Norrköping


"White talk" among students, distancing , defensive faculty, teaching exhaustion due to the nature of the topic "white fragility". These are often untold aspects of teaching about race and gender. This conversation focus on ways in which white feminism centers itself and keeps Black, Third World, Indigenous, postcolonial and other non-white/non-western forms of feminism at the margins, and the consequences this has on gender and race relations in a power setting such as a classroom.

The Workshop is lead by Anaïs Duong-Pedica, PhD candidate Åbo Akademi University in Finland. Her thesis focuses on ‘mixed-race’ (métis•se) identity in Kanaky New Caledonia. Her academic interests are in anti-racism, feminism, colonialism and critical (mixed-) race studies. She is currently teaching a course entitled ‘White Women & White Feminism’ in the Masters programme in Social Exclusion at Åbo Akademi University. http://www.racialjusticenetwork.co.uk/white-fragility/

Nacira Guénif-Souilamas is a professor at University Paris 8 Vincennes - Saint-Denis  and currently a visiting professor at REMESO. Her re/search interests encompass mobility, migrations and minorities in post/colonial France, Europe and Beyond Souths, considered as a standpoint for examining sexualisation, racialisation, othering and inequalities entangled experiences. Among her publications: Les féministes et le garçon arabe (The feminists and the Arab boy), 2004; “Restrained equality. A sexualized and gendered colour line”, in Jonsson, S., & Willén, J. (eds.). Austere histories in European societies. Routledge, 2017.



Erik Berggren
Forskningskoordinator


REMESO
Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society
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