“So tell me, why are we still doing this?”
On a gloomy Sunday afternoon, a question reverberated through Dounia’s living room, disrupting the silence as Zehra and Dounia came together to prepare yet another academic job application. Our friendship, born out of a shared interest in anti-racism in … 
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educational practice in Germany between racism and far-right ideologies
Preventing Violent Extremism in Germany
Over the past decade, Western democratic societies experienced an increase in far-right mobilization that in some cases turned violent (Koehler, 2016). In Germany 2019 and 2020 saw far-right violence in terror attacks on a Synagogue, the murder of a local …
education is not the solution: racism and abuse of power in schools and universities
I remember the image of Professor H., a tall man, very clearly. Dressed in an expensive suit, tie, and patent-leather shoes, he often strutted up and down in the front of the auditorium, and instead of giving a scientific lecture, he bragged about whose hand he had just shaken in Berlin, London or …
reply: critical race theory and antiracism: lost in translation
The question of whether the inclusion of critical race theory (CRT) or antiracism in political education is favorable has arisen at a critical point in time. A time when “the criminality of CRT as the enemy of American democracy” (Gates, 2022, p. 138) is on trial, literally. More than 10.000 media …
how racism works – and how it doesn’t work: why a totalizing understanding of racism is insufficient for theory and research
Current political and scientific controversies about racism are often conducted as disputes in which clear positions are demanded, as if it were about religious confessions, or as if they were governed by a "logic of the trial" (Wacquant, 1997, p. 222), which aims at identifying culprits and …
collective amnesia and continuous anti-black racism in Germany: how the colonial past, and a reluctance to come to terms with it, causes daily difficulties and why historical learning alone does not help. an essay.
Europe in the spring of 2022: Russia is waging a war of aggression in Ukraine that violates international law. The refugees arriving in Berlin tell of how they escaped the bombs and shelling and how parts of their families stayed behind as soldiers. Despite all the solidarity and willingness to …
critical race theory in political education
Critical Race Theory
The invention of human races, which has become a constitutive feature of ‘scientific’ racism, took place in the Age of Enlightenment, with the help of European philosophers (Hentges, 1999). Racism is now a global phenomenon, whereby individual and institutional knowledge …
the black professoriate: assessing the landscape within British higher education
Introduction
The paucity of Black higher education professors within the United Kingdom (UK) illuminates the systemic inequity of the higher education system within Britain. This pandemic continues to blight the sector within a UK context and raises legitimate concerns for the next generation of …
the planetary justice crisis, structural racism and sustainability education
For us, this event is not called Fridays for Future. For us, this event is called Fridays for Past, Present and Future, because the Global North is stealing the past, the present and the future from us and our families. (Kennedy-Asante, 2019)
This is what Rebecca Abena Kennedy-Asante emphasized in …
racism and discursive belongings
Introduction: Doing white Europe again
Adorno's well-known formulation of Grabbe's quotation that only those who are desperate can save themselves has a cynical ring to it these days. For it is not only in view of the terrible scale of violence, destruction and physical annihilation unleashed in …
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editorial: how racism works: systemic injustices and the (false) promises of education
Racism constitutes an integral part of contemporary societies. Although there are probably few people who would openly call themselves racist, discrimination and oppression against people marked as non-white or “other” in some way are still omnipresent across the globe. The struggles connected with …
the continuity of adhocracy: formal practices of segregated schooling of immigrant students as a mirror for German migration politics
Introduction[1. This article is based on a collaborative work with Birgit zur Nieden, Çağrı Kahveci, Sophie Gross and Mareike Heller (see Karakayalı et al., 2017).]
Ever since the summer of 2015, an increasing number of school-age children and youth for whom school is mandatory have arrived in …