Black Marxism, racial capitalism and the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean complex: On the abolition of Europe’s racial supremacy
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Black Marxism, racial capitalism and the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean complex: On the abolition of Europe’s racial supremacy
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7 November 2021
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Today the European Union uses the Balkans and East Mediterranean region as a buffer zone for migrants treated as racialized “surplus populations”. By relying on Black Marxism’s sociological history of racial capitalism, this talk argues that, despite the region’s Europeanization, the EU”s racialization is neither an administrative nor a temporary “solution” for the so-called “migration crisis.” Rather, since medieval capitalism, the region has been a historically designated place for the production and reproduction of Europe’s racial supremacy. Firstly, the talk analyses the rise of Venetian capitalism and, more specifically, the sugar plantations in Cyprus. It then analyses the regional revolts and the rise of the region’s pre-modern radical tradition. The speech concludes with a discussion of Cedric J. Robinson’s parallel between the Black Radical Tradition and the region’s radical tradition, their shared task to abolish “Europe” as a civilization of racial capitalism.”
(Edited and translated description from organiser’s website)
(Edited and translated description from organiser’s website)
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