I would just like to thank Denise for the political labour of pointing out
the racialised division of labour. It is very hard to do this on forums
like this. But I for one have appreciated the effort and all it can end up
revealing.
Sometimes, when we describe a problem it is as if we are creating the
problem. This is especially issue when we are talking about race.
Sometimes when we describe a problem we become the problem. In this
becoming there is no doubt an alternative political promise, even though
it is hard work getting there.
All best,
Sara Ahmed
On Sun, March 25, 2012 11:36 am, Denise Ferreira da Silva wrote:
> Hi Ian,
>
>
> Thanks for replying. I am happy to see that you have grasped the spirit
> of my comments. Just for the record, when you read toward a global idea of
> race, you will see two things (a) that David Theo Goldberg has no
> influence whatsoever in my work and (b) that my work is not about global
> racisms; to be sure, it asks that the very concept of racism be
> abandoned.
>
> As I said at the very beginning of the message, I am not one to use race,
> color, or identity as a basis for considering scholarship. It is only
> that, from my personal experience (and when stakes were very high, my
> tenure was in danger) I have had the chance to see how the existing
> racial/colonial division of intellectual labour is maintained. For
> precisely one of those white intellectuals who 'have their uses' tried
> very hard not to let my book be published, on the barely disguised
> arguments that (1) I can only write about Brazil and (b) because my last
> name is not Foucault, Derrida, or Agamben I have no place writing
> what/how I do.
>
> In any event, I respect and appreciate Howie Winant's and Boaventura de
> Souza Santos' contributions to the field. My point was:
> It is time to reconfigure the field, to end this racial/colonial division
> of intellectual labour.
>
> I wish you great success with the conference. Unfortunately, I will not
> be able to attend, as I have a workshop - with the anticolonial machine
> group - in the US at the same time.
>
> My best,
>
>
> Denise
>
>
> Professor Denise Ferreira da Silva
> Chair in Ethics
> The Centre for Ethics and Politics, Director
> _________________
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>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Law [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Fri 3/23/2012 2:07 PM
> To: Race & Ethnicity Study Group/Forum (BSA) List; Denise Ferreira da
> Silva
> Subject: RE: [BSA-RACE] FW: Global Racisms Conference Friday Oct 5th 2012
> - University of Leeds
>
>
> Hi Denise,
>
>
> I do hope you can come and contribute to this debate, and I look forward
> to reading your book 'Towards a Global Idea of Race'. Also interesting to
> see you have been inspired by David Goldberg, as have I, in engaging in
> the project of of mapping global racisms which forms the intellectua
> agenda for our conference. Some 'whites' do appear to have their uses.
>
> Best wishes
>
>
> Ian
>
>
> Professor Ian Law
> Director, CERS (Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies), School of
> Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT.
>
>
> Latest book:
> http://vig.pearsoned.co.uk/catalog/academic/product/0,1144,1405859121,00.
> html My staff home page:
> http://www.sociology.leeds.ac.uk/about/staff/law.php
> CERS website:
> http://www.sociology.leeds.ac.uk/research/ethnicity-racism/cers/
> ________________________________________
> From: Race & Ethnicity Study Group/Forum (BSA) List
> [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Denise Ferreira
> da Silva [[log in to unmask]] Sent: 23 March 2012 13:20
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [BSA-RACE] FW: Global Racisms Conference Friday Oct 5th 2012
> - University of Leeds - This is England!!!
>
>
> Hi all,
>
>
> Nothing has changed much it seems. My inclination is not to use
> race/color as a criterion for judging scholarship, nor am I the last
> player in the game of identity politics. Anyone who knows me and my work
> can attest to that. At times, however, one cannot remain silent before
> certain choices, for other kinds of naturalizing will not be dissolved.
>
> This conference on world racism opens with two white male professors, one
> from the US and other from Europe. More importantly, given the number of
> outstanding indigenous scholars in the Americas, Oceania, and elsewhere, I
> can't possibly understand why Boaventura de Souza Santos is speaking
> about Indigeneity.
>
> This might be England, I guess. But it does not have to continue to be
> this way: last October the Centre for Ethics & Politics at QMUL, held a
> symposium on Postcolonial Capitalism in which 2/3 of the presenters were
> non-white & non-male junior and established scholars from all over the
> world, and a good number of them from here.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Denise
>
>
>
> Professor Denise Ferreira da Silva
> Chair in Ethics
> The Centre for Ethics and Politics, Director
> _________________
> School of Business and Management
> Queen Mary, University of London
> Francis Bancroft Building, Room 3.33
> Mile End Road -London E1 4NS
> Tel.: +44 (0) 20 7882 8414
> Fax : +44 (0) 20 7882 3615
> Email: [log in to unmask]
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>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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>
> fyi ________________________________________
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> Sent: 23 March 2012 09:36
> To: Marie Johnson
> Subject: Global Racisms Conference Friday Oct 5th 2012 - University of
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