It has long been commonplace to claim that racism has become one of the defining ideologies of the modern world. Although its historical roots stretch back centuries, racism in a modern sense, especially in terms of its direct links to politics, political parties and institutions, is little more than a century and a half old.

The last century witnessed the radicalization of race as an “imagined community” across the political spectrum and in a variety of violent forms, ranging from social segregation to full-scale genocide. But while racism itself is fundamentally transnational in both theory and practice, abetted by the development of mass media to help forge racist networks and activists across the globe, research on racism has remained surprisingly national in orientation. Indeed, most scholarship to date has concentrated almost exclusively on how racism and racial politics operate within the confines of territorial states.

Workshop Programme (Day 1):

(All Welcome)

The Marketplace, 2-3.30pm

• Chair: Claire Langhamer (University of Sussex)
• Malte Hinrichsen (University of Hamburg) - The French ‘Moor’: history of a racist stereotype in French, German and US advertising
• Gideon Reuveni (University of Sussex) – Antisemitism and the marketplace
• Stefanie Affeldt (University of Hamburg) – The ‘Great White Train’: commodity racism on rails

Identity, 4-5.30pm

• Chair: Gerhard Wolf (University of Sussex)
• Anne-Marie Angelo (University of Sussex) – ‘Black oppressed people all over the world are one’: The British Black Panthers’ grassroots internationalism
• Clara Everdosa (University of Kiel) – Racism without race: May Ayim, post-war Germany and the reception of Afro-American identity concepts
• Clive Webb (University of Sussex) – White hoods and Union Jacks: the Ku Klux Klan in Britain

Photo Exhibition, 5.30pm

• Before Barack

Public Keynote Address, 6.30pm

• Colin Grant: Pigmentocracy and the hierarchy of race

By: Diana Franklin
Last updated: Thursday, 23 January 2014