Why Teaching International Law Should Be an Antiracist Endeavour

The field of international law, developed in the shadow of colonialism and global power imbalances, has long been influenced by racial biases and hegemonic interests. These historical and systemic inequalities…

Exploring Intersectionality as a Concept to Effectively Combat Racism and Racial and Ethnic Discrimination

Introduction This contribution aims to highlight the shortcomings of European and International anti-racism law with respect to discriminations based on nationality. It promotes the concept of intersectionality as a means…

Unmasking the Intractable: Exploring Anti-Racism and the Law

Racism trends across the world reveal persistent and evolving challenges despite legislative efforts and advancements in social cohesion. In the EU, an ominous rising wave of far-right populism has exacerbated…

Enlightened racism? European philosophy entanglements with racism and colonial practices – then and now

ANALYSIS Silvia Donzelli 31 May 2022 Debates in the wake of Black Lives Matter movement are contributing to the disclosure of multilayered patterns of racist thought and practices hitherto concealed…

“Separate But Equal”: From Plessy to Brown – The (In)ability of the US Courts in the Quest for Racial Desegregation

ANALYSIS Kilili Nthiw’a 27 May 2022 “We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of “separate but equal” has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.…

Racism Concerns in Search Results and Implications for Researching on African Issues

COMMENT Nelson Otieno 13 May 2022 “Why Africa” Search Results Search results are enabled by algorithms that collect, organize, and categorize data into contexts to produce desired results. With this…

Anti-racism in international human rights law – What is radical enough?

ANALYSIS Thoko Kaime and Isabelle Zundel 06 May 2022 The africanlegalstudies.blog has sent the focus month “Longing for an Anti-Racist World” into a second round. Rightly so, since (un)surprisingly racism…

Challenging the Orthodoxy: Race, Racism and the Reconfiguration of Economics

ANALYSIS Prof. Dr Stefan Ouma 31 May 2021 Books abound on what is wrong with economics (Chang 2014; Keen 2011; Nelson 2018, Mazzucato 2018, Raworth 2018, Stanford 2015), and what…

Pleading for White Responsibility in the Struggle Against Racism

OPINION Prof. Dr. Susan Arndt 28 May 2021 I wish to thank Thoko Kaime for his most powerful intervention. Indeed, the longevity of racism is in need of an allyship…

Abolitionist and Anti-Racist Struggles in Muslim Africa: The Case of Mauritania

ANALYSIS David Malluche 28 May 2021 In the wake of the recent global rise of Anti-Racist movements, local activists and scholars have brought increasing attention to the racial legacies of…