| Top papers from your news feed from the last week  | Countering Online Hate Speech by Gabriela Martinez Sainz, Danit Gal, and Iginio Gagliardone The study provides a global overview of the dynamics characterizing hate speech online and some of the measures that have been adopted to counteract and mitigate it, highlighting good practices that have emerged at the local and global levels. While the study offers a comprehensive analysis of the international, regional and national normative frameworks developed to address hate speech online, and their repercussions for freedom of expression, it places particular emphasis on social and non-regulatory mechanisms that can help to counter the production, dissemination and impact of hateful... | | Download Bookmark |  | Nicolas Bancel, Thomas David, Dominic Thomas (eds.): The Invention of Race. Scientific and Popular Representations by Wulf D. Hund | | Download Bookmark |  | "We Are Not Racists, We Are Mexicans": Privilege, Nationalism and Post-Race Ideology in Mexico by Emiko Saldivar and Monica Moreno Figueroa This article analyses the conflicting understandings surrounding the recognition of anti-black racism in Mexico drawing from an analysis of the 2005 controversy around Memín Pinguín. We ask what is at stake when opposition arises to claims of racism, how racial disavowal is possible, and how is it that the racial project of mestizaje (racial and cultural mixture) expresses a form of Mexican post-racial ideology. We argue that the ideology of mestizaje is key for unpacking the tensions between the recognition and disavowal of racism. Mestizaje solidifies into a form of nationalist denial in... | | Download Bookmark |  | Displaced looks: the lived experience of beauty and racism in Mexico. by Monica Moreno Figueroa Beauty, appearance, and racialised perceptions of skin colour, as systems of difference and empirical experience, are the main focuses of this paper. I argue that these notions inform and reproduce each other within specific social and historical configurations of Mexicanness and mestizaje (racial mixture). This paper discusses the differences between 'being' and 'feeling' acceptable, pretty or ugly and the possibility of such displacement (from being to feeling or vice versa) as a way to approach an understanding of what beauty does in people's lives. I am interested in exploring the... | | Download Bookmark | |
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