Balogun, B. orcid.org/0000-0001-7476-1708 and Pędziwiatr, K. orcid.org/0000-0002-7547-6789 (2023) ‘Stop calling me Murzyn’ – how Black Lives Matter in Poland. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 49 (6). pp. 1552-1569. ISSN 1369-183X
Abstract
The scholarship on race and racism has tended to focus mostly on countries in Western Europe. It has thereby overlooked racial dynamics taking place in other regions – including Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). This article examines the reverberations of the recent global antiracist mobilisation triggered by the killing of George Floyd in the United States in this underexplored context. Specifically, it considers the significance of the ‘Black Lives Matter’ (BLM) movement for Black people in Poland. Championed by the BLM movement, there have been demands for further reflection on racial inequalities in European societies, where many citizens in Europe’s West are beginning to engage with the impact of colonialism. The effect of George Floyd’s death has also reached unexpected places such as Poland, where Black communities have renewed their calls to reshape their representation in public discourse. We trace these mobilisations via our analysis of an online video discussion that unfolded under the hashtag #DontCallMeMurzyn. This article makes a case for the significance of concepts such as race and racism to our understanding of social relations in Poland; it shows, furthermore, how the BLM mobilisation has revived conversations about everyday racism and the representation of Black people in the public sphere.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The Author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. JOURNAL OF ETHNIC AND MIGRATION STUDIEShttps://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2022.2154914 |
Keywords: | Black Lives Matter; Central and Eastern Europe; Poland; race; racism |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Geography (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number LEVERHULME TRUST (THE) ECF-2020-080 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 20 Jan 2023 09:34 |
Last Modified: | 26 Sep 2024 15:10 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Informa UK Limited |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/1369183x.2022.2154914 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:195446 |
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