Comparative Racisms: Free Online Seminar Spring 2022
Hosted on Zoom – Register for link
March 24 – May 26, 2022
Thursdays
10:00am – 11:30am Eastern Time
Description:
Racism by its very presence in our social and political world means that not all ethnic groups benefit equally from economic, political and cultural resources. States and the capitalist system, which derive their power from colonialism, play an active role in the construction of racist regimes in different countries.
Each week we will explore the roots of racism and its current instantiation in different countries and regions and compare the ways in which racism plays out in different settings, and leads to the formation of different forms of race-based inequities, exploitation, and stratification. This will allow us to compare the various forms of racism that exist today and have been present through history.
More Information:
Participants who attend at least 8 complete seminar sessions will receive a certificate of satisfactory completion from the Dean of The New School for Social Research. In order to obtain the certificate, participants must register and log in with the same email address each week.
Registration will remain open for the duration of the seminar. Registrants will receive a reminder email with the Zoom link each week. The seminar sessions will be recorded and available to registrants on Vimeo the following week.
Seminar Leaders:
Güllistan Yarkin is an independent scholar. She completed her PhD degree in the Sociology Department at the State University of New York at Binghamton in 2017. The title of her dissertation is The Making of National-Racial Formation and Coloniality in Turkey: Turkish-Kurdish Relations in a Working-Class District of Zeytinburnu in Istanbul, 1950-2017. Her research areas include racism, anti-racism, colonialism, social movements, urban studies and Turkish-Kurdish relations.
Utku Balaban is an associate professor of sociology. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from SUNY Binghamton in 2011 and taught on various campuses in New York and Pennsylvania until 2012. He served as a faculty member at the Department of Labor Economics and Industrial Relations at Ankara University between 2012 and 2017.
Weekly Sessions:
- March 24, 2022: Racism from Global Perspective
- March 31, 2022: Black People in the USA
- April 7, 2022: Black People in Europe
- April 14, 2022: Jewish People in Europe
- April 21, 2022: Racism in Radical Islamism and Anti-Muslim Racism in China and India
- April 28, 2022: Racism in Soviet Russia and Indonesia
- May 5, 2022: Muslim People in Europe
- May 12, 2022: Immigrants in South Africa
- May 19, 2022: Whiteness in Japan and Blackness in Morocco
- May 26, 2022: Kurdish People in Turkey
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