Remi Joseph-Salisbury - The Fire Now: Anti-Racist Scholarship in Times of Explicit Racial Violence

More praise for The Fire Now

A clarion call and a collaborative love letter, The Fire Now is a ferocious and diligent reckoning with newly energised forces of racism and white supremacy.

Yasmin Gunaratnam, Goldsmiths University of London

An important book for the unpredictable and dangerous times in which we live. Now, more than ever, we need to understand the function of white supremacy and the anti-racist theories and practices to effectively combat it.

Akwugo Emejulu, Warwick University

ABOUT THE EDITORS

Azeezat Johnson is an ESRC postdoctoral fellow in Geography at Queen Mary University of London. She is interested in using Black feminist politics and everyday clothing practices to address the experiences of Black Muslim women across different spaces. She tweets as @azeezatj.

Remi Joseph-Salisbury is a presidential fellow in ethnic inequalities at the University of Manchester. He is an anti-racist scholar and activist, with interests in mixedness, race in education, racial microaggressions and anti-racist movements. He tweets as @RemiJS90.

Beth Kamunge is an African black-feminist and doctoral researcher. Her PhD project is a Black-feminist exploration of epistemologies of ignorance through the lens of black women in Sheffield's food experiences. She tweets at @beswk.

THE FIRE NOW

ANTI-RACIST SCHOLARSHIP IN TIMES OF EXPLICIT RACIAL VIOLENCE

Edited by Azeezat Johnson, Remi Joseph-Salisbury and Beth Kamunge

The Fire Now: Anti-Racist Scholarship in Times of Explicit Racial Violence was first published in 2018 by Zed Books Ltd, The Foundry, 17 Oval Way, London SE11 5RR, UK.

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Editorial Copyright Azeezat Johnson, Remi Joseph-Salisbury and Beth Kamunge 2018

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CONTENTS

Christina Sharpe

Beth Kamunge, Remi Joseph-Salisbury and Azeezat Johnson

Muna Abdi

Azeezat Johnson

Jason Arday

Derrais Carter

Remi Joseph-Salisbury

Sai Murray

Viji Kuppan

Amal Ali

Adrienne N. Milner and Adekonyinsola Aromolaran

Leon Sealey-Huggins

Kehinde Andrews

Layla Brown-Vincent

Moussa Traor

Tony Talburt

Sam Tecle and Carl E. James

Keguro Macharia

Beth Kamunge, Wambui Mwangi and Osop Abdi Ali

Maryam Jameela

Sadia Habib

China Mills

Kadian Pow

Patricia Noxolo

Remi Joseph-Salisbury, Azeezat Johnson and Beth Kamunge

George Yancy

Muna Abdi is a poet and activist scholar.

Osop Abdi Ali is a humanitarian worker with a leading refugee agency in Nairobi Kenya, and aspiring writer.

Amal Ali is a senior lecturer in law at the University of Lincoln. Her research interests are in intersectionality and womens rights within the broader field of law, gender and religion.

Kehinde Andrews is an associate professor in sociology at Birmingham City University. He is director of the Centre for Critical Social Research, founder of the Organisation of Black Unity, and co-chair of the Black Studies Association.

Jason Arday is a senior lecturer in education at the University of Roehampton, School of Education, a Visiting Research Fellow at the Ohio State University in the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, and a Trustee of the Runnymede Trust. His research focuses on race, education and social justice.

Adekonyinsola Aromolaran completed a Bachelors degree in global health at Queen Mary University of London, studying topics such as racial injustice, health inequalities and economic policy. She is now currently studying medicine at the University of Southampton.

Layla Brown-Vincent is a postdoctoral fellow in Africana studies and the Griot Institute for Africana Studies at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA. Her research examines twenty-first-century pan-African feminisms and activism in the United States and Venezuela. Layla is a member of the All African Peoples Party GC and works with various black organisations across the US south.

Derrais (d.a.) Carter is an educator, creative, and lover of Black people. He is also a member of the Queering Slavery Working Group.

Sadia Habib has taught Key Stages 3, 4 and 5 in Manchester and London. She has completed a PhD in education at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the author of Learning and Teaching British Values: Policies and Perspectives on British Identities (2018).

Maryam Jameela is a PhD candidate at the University of Sheffield. Her work examines British government policy in relation to cultural media representations of South Asian Muslim women in the West. She tweets as @yammatron.

Carl E. James is a professor in the Faculty of Education and the Graduate Program in Sociology at York University, Toronto. His areas of focus include the educational opportunities, experiences and life trajectories of racialised people, particularly black Canadians. Currently, he holds the Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and Diaspora and is the Affirmative Action, Equity and Inclusivity Officer at the university. He is also Education Advisor to the Minister of Education and Premier of Ontario.

Viji Kuppan is a doctoral research student at the Centre for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion of Leeds Beckett University. His activism, scholarship and teaching is primarily concerned with sport, leisure and popular culture, where he interrogates these formations through the structures of race, disability, gender and their entanglements.

Keguro Macharia is from Nairobi. He blogs at gukira.wordpress.com and tweets as @keguro.

China Mills researches and teaches in the area of global mental health and critical psychology. She has published widely, including the book Decolonizing Global Mental Health (2014), as well as various papers and book chapters on psychopolitics and the coloniality of the psy-disciplines. China is a discipline hopper, whose current research looks at the quantification and digitisation of mental health; and the psychopolitics of suicide linked to austerity. China is a lecturer in the School of Education, University of Sheffield, UK; and a member of the editorial collective for Asylum magazine.

Adrienne Milner is a lecturer in the Centre for Primary Care and Public Health at Queen Mary University of London. Her research addresses issues of health equity in terms of race and ethnicity and sex and gender in political and sports contexts. She is co-author with Prof. Jomills Henry Braddock II of the monograph, Sex Segregation in Sports: Why Separate Is Not Equal and co-editor with Prof. Braddock of the collection, Women in Sports: Breaking Barriers, Facing Obstacles .

Sai Murray is a writer, spoken word artist, graphic designer of Bajan/Afrikan/English heritage. His first poetry collection Ad-liberation , was published in 2013. He was lead writer on Virtual Migrants 2015 touring production, Continent Chop Chop ; is a poet facilitator on Voices that Shake! ; board member of Remember Oluwale; a trustee of The Racial Justice Network and a co-ordinating member of PARCOE (Pan Afrikan Reparations Coalition in Europe).