Mapping Global Racisms

Mapping Global Racisms Project (2012-2016): young researchers' working papers archive.

This archive contains working papers on racism and racialisation in differing countries and contexts around the world produced for CERS by undergraduate and postgraduate students at the University of Leeds.

America

• American Neo-Nazism, Michelle Caplin, 2012
• Mexican immigration to the US, Noelle Guzman, 2012
• Racialisation and Hawai’i, Eric Tan, 2012
• Stereotypes, subliminal messaging and stigma – Blackness and racism in the United States of America, Imana Dione, 2015
• The Post-Racial Fallacy in America, Raeanne Lawrence-Scarlett, 2015
• Anti-Muslim narratives within the US Media, Eleanor Pugh, 2016
• Racialisation in Post Racial Times in America, Jenna Parkinson, 2016
• The rise of Islamophobia and anti-Muslim experiences in the U.S., Ayesha Ullaq, 2016

Australia

• Racialisation and Australia, James Beresford, 2012
• Racialisation of East Asians in Australia, Alex McHugh, 2014
• Racialisation in Australia, Charlotte Carson, 2014
• Indigenous Australians and the legacy of racialisation since British colonisation, Olivia Doyle Gray, 2016
• Racialisation in Australia, Jodie Mattey, 2016

Bangladesh

• Anti-Bihari sentiment in Bangladesh, Harriette Tillott, 2016

Barbados

• Post-racial Barbados? Continuing narratives of white dominance, Imogen Walmsley, 2016

Belgium

• Race and Racialisation: The formation and transformation of the Kingdom of Belgium, Taiwo Ogunyinka, 2016

Bosnia and Herzegovina

• Bosnia and Herzegovina - One Country, Two Entities, Three National Identities, Ellie Magee, 2016

Brazil

• Racialisation and Australia, James Beresford, 2012
• Racialisation in Brazil, Karina Round, 2012
• Racism in Brazil, Jessica Evans, 2012

Bulgaria

• Roma in Bulgaria, Katrina Butler, 2012

Cambodia

• Historical patterns of the racialisation of Vietnamese in Cambodia, and their relevance today, Anna Lewis, 2015

Canada

• Multicultural Canada, Janice Bastian, 2012Canada and the atrocious Indian Act, Christa Jonathon, 2014
• Racialisation in Canada, Chloe Lightowler, 2014

Chile

• A Critical Analysis of the Racialisation and Discrimination of the Mapuche in Chile, Alexander Hodes, 2016

China

• Racialisation and China, Flavia Keith, 2012
• Racialisation in China, Rebecca Morris, 2012
• Racialisation and Tibet, Rebecca Brett, 2012
• China and Racism, Charlotte Falvey, 2014
• Racialisation in China, Luke Milner, 2015

Colombia

• Multicultural harmony in Colombia? Beth Brady, 2015

Cote d'Ivoire

• The enduring reality of racialization in Côte d’Ivoire, Jack Wheeldon, 2015
• Mutating racial and ethnic discourses and the post-colonial hangover in Côte D’Ivoire, Joanne Llewellyn White, 2016

Cuba

• Racism in Cuba, Anna-Claire Chappell, 2016

Denmark

• Denmark’s Discrimination: The extent of racialisation of Muslims as ‘other’, Dominique Triggs, 2015

Dominican Republic

• Racism in the Dominican Republic, Abigail Smith, 2014
• Anti-Haitianism: A Study of Racialisation in the Dominican Republic, Chloe Walker, 2016

East Africa

• Ethnicity in East Africa, Laura-Catalina Althoff, 2014

France

• Racialisation in France, Ben Garner, 2014
• Racism in French politics, Charis Dant, 2016

Germany

• Racialisation of Jews in Germany, Bianca Gubbay, 2012
• Neo Nazism in Germany, Jack Herrick, 2014
• The Nazi Regime’s Resonating Effects on Racialisation in Germany, James Kilcoyne, 2016

Guatemala

• Indigeneity and Racialisation: The Anti-Maya Project in Guatemala, Emily O'Brien, 2016

Honduras

• Racialization in Honduras: A critical examination in regards to race, place and media representations of smaller ethnic communities, Rachael Symmons, 2016

Hungary

• Racialisation in Hungary – the Roma and the Jews, Lauren Berry-Richards, 2016
• Racialisation of the Roma population in Hungary, Jessica Kennedy, 2016

India

• Racialisation and Caste in India, Lucy Fedrick, 2012
• Race and self-definition in India, Brendan Krovatin, 2014
• ‘Incredible India’ and the Integral Relationship between Caste and Race, Lucy O'Brien, 2016

Iraq

• Continuing legacies in Post-Saddam Iraq, Leah Asquith, 2015

Iran

• Racism in Iran, Harriet Blyth, 2014

Ireland

• Continuous denial of racism from the Irish state, Ciara McGuinness, 2015

Israel

• Racialisation and Israel, Nichoas Jara-Joly, 2012
• Racism in Israel, the case of Ethiopian Jews, Sifan Zelalem, 2014
• Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jews) and African Asylum Seekers in Israel, Ismail Adam Patel, 2015
• The Interaction of Discursive and Non-Discursive Fields in the Construction of Racial Violence in Israel/Palestine, Bernadette Snell, 2015

Italy

• Racism in Italy, Ed Smith, 2014
• Roma and Sinti people in Italy, Helen Dannatt, 2015
• The process of racialisation in the political, media and internet discourse in Italy and public policy, Laura Chervatin, 2016

Jamaica

• Liquid analysis of skin bleaching, Spencer Swain, 2012
• Racialisation of Jamaica, Benjamin Joyce, 2012
• Racialisation in Jamaica: is Jamaica really an “ideologically raceless” society? Hannah Scherrer, 2015

Japan

• Racialisation in Japan, Rebecca Burton, 2012
• Racist discourse in Japan, Clio Tsivanidis, 2015
• The myth of “Nihonjinron”, homogeneity of Japan and its influence on the society, Kana Yamamoto 2015
• Japanese homogeneity and processes of racialisation and their effects on the Korean population living in Japan, Abigail Witherwick, 2016
• Japan – The Shaping of the World’s Most Homogeneous Country, Kit Ellam, 2016
• Race and racism in Japan, Kate Forbes, 2016
• Racialization in Japan, Kate Pocknee, 2016

Kuwait

• Racialisation in the State of Kuwait, Noor Janahi, 2015

Lebanon

• Racialisation in Lebanon, Rebecca Al-Iskalachi, 2012
• Racism in contemporary Lebanon, Nisreen Kaj, 2012
• Why a non-black identity – the Lebanese – as part of 

Liberia

• On Racialized Citizenship: The History of Black colonialism in Liberia, Naomi Anderson Whittaker, 2015

Lithuania

• Us and Them. Racialisation in Lithuania, Anton Shveygert

Mexico

• Racialisation and Mexico, Simon Snowdon, 2012

Morocco

• Racialisation in Morocco, Africa Garcia-Arcicollar, 2014
• The Racialization of Morocco, Maya Stainback, 2015

New Zealand

• Racialisation in New Zealand, Olivier Donnithorne, 2012
• How colonialisation has shaped, and still shapes, the Maori identity through processes of racialisation, Emily Fulcher, 2015

Nigeria

• Lebanese of African Heritage, Nisreen Kaj, 2012 
• A critical analysis of racialisation processes in contemporary Nigeria, Ekenenyie Basseyurua Ukpong, 2016

Norway

• Racism – A Norwegian case study, Mariama Njai, 2014

Pakistan

• Pakistan (now Pakistan will be white): A Study into the Phenomenon of Skin Lightening in Pakistan, Ab Gora Hoga, 2015

Peru

• Racism in practice, but not in name: the racialisation of Peru’s sociocultural structure from 1990-Present, Naomi Harrington, 2016

Russian Federation

• Anti-semitism in Russia, Simon Caplin, 2012.
• Racialisation and Russia, Flora Connell, 2012
• Dividing the lines: the construction of Four Races in Soviet Russia, Josephine Sirotkin, 2014
• Racism in Russia, Jarrod Smith, 2014
• Racism in Russia, Alice Bennett 2014
• Neo-Nazism and Racist Violence in Russia, Harriet Neely, 2015
• Racial violence in Russia; Putin’s racial state and his segregationist attributes along with other factors that could potentially contribute to a racist fuelled Russia, Emmie Hammond, 2015
• Russian racialisation, Laurence Desjardins, 2016
• The Four Faces of Racialization in the Russian Federation, Anna McLoughlin, 2016

Rwanda

• Racism in Rwanda, Henry Millar, 2014
• Rwandan Genocide, Bryn Jenkins, 2014

Saudi Arabia

• Critical reflections on Immigration in Saudi Arabia, Tasnim Alahdal, 2015

Singapore

• Racialisation in Singapore, Philippa Poole, 2016

South Africa

• Sport_and_South_Africa _Mark_Tarplee, 2012
• Xenophobia in South Africa, Nomsa Dumani, 2015

Spain

• Spain’s Historical Paradox: Racism and Reliance on African Migrants, Emma Greenough, 2016

Sudan

• Racialisation and Sudan, Fatima Mohammed, 2012

Sweden

• Sweden and the Radical Right, Hannah Ralph, 2012
• Racism in Sweden, Laura Henderson, 2014
• Swedish racism, Marissa Freeman, 2015
• The invisibility of race in Sweden, Christian Spas, 2015

Thailand

• To race or not to race, Kuansong Zhuang, 2014
• An Insight into Thailand’s Construction of the Thai Race, Identity and Consequent ‘Thainess’, Kristina Jones, 2016

Trinidad and Tobago

• Racialisation and Trinidad and Tobago, Jospehine Lutchman, 2012

Turkey

• Racialization in Turkey and the exclusion of Kurdish identity, Janet Lambert, 2015
• Anti-Semitism in Turkey, Isabel Suchy, 2016

Uganda

• The residuals of colonial rule and its impact on the process of racialisation in Uganda, Colette Armitage, 2015

United Arab Emirates

• Racialisation in the United Arab Emirates, Rebecca Goldthorpe, 2012
• Policies of ‘Emiratisation,’ labour and domestic work migration and the construction of women and their role in shaping racial hierarchies in the United Arab Emirates? Catriona Burke, 2016
• A critical overview of racialization in the United Arab Emirates, Alexandra Millward, 2016
• Racial Hierarchies and Migrant Labour in Dubai – a critical analysis of processes of racialisation, Tina Gullerfelt, 2016
• United Arab Emirates and racism, Moradeyo Mapaderun, 2016