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SUMMARY:AFI Feminist Dialogue with Chris Essombe
DESCRIPTION:\n&ldquo\;Not All Skinfolk are Kinfolk: Analyzing South Afri
ca&rsquo\;s Negrophobia&rdquo\;\n\nChris Essombe (she/her)\n\nNegrophobi
c xenophobia in South Africa presents a premise of Othering that results
in collective violence against Black foreign Africans in South Africa.
Despite common references to phenotypical and ontological differences (w
ith the former often presented as a manifestation of the latter) between
targeted populations and assailants\, race and racial constructions are
rarely positioned as root factors of Negrophobia and negrophobic violen
ce in South Africa. Instead\, scarce resources and perceived immigration
status are often highlighted as potential causal factors. This conseque
ntly leaves unaddressed the reproductions of race in postcolonial Africa
n societies despite the racialization process that African peoples have
been experiencing since Modernity. Indeed\, much remains to be theorized
about how Black South Africans identify racially and relate to other Bl
ack individuals from the rest of the African continent. \;\n\nIn thi
s talk\, Chris Essombe (she/her) presents her preliminary findings from
her doctoral research which\, through a decolonial Africa(n)-centered ps
ychology of antiracism\, explores what South Africa&rsquo\;s Negrophobia
reveals about postcolonial post-Apartheid contemporary racial identitie
s of Black Africans on the continent\, appropriated racial oppression (A
RO)\, and aspirations to whiteness. Findings also include a tentative ge
nealogy of negrophobic violence and its potential psychological implicat
ions for people of African descent in South Africa and beyond.\n\nFor mo
re details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/afi_chris-essombe/
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:“Not A
ll Skinfolk are Kinfolk: Analyzing South Africa’s Negrophobia&rdqu
o;
Chris Essombe (she/her)
Negrophobic xenophobia
in South Africa presents a premise of Othering that results in collecti
ve violence against Black foreign Africans in South Africa. Despite comm
on references to phenotypical and ontological differences (with the form
er often presented as a manifestation of the latter) between targeted po
pulations and assailants, race and racial constructions are rarely posit
ioned as root factors of Negrophobia and negrophobic violence in South A
frica. Instead, scarce resources and perceived immigration status are of
ten highlighted as potential causal factors. This consequently leaves un
addressed the reproductions of race in postcolonial African societies de
spite the racialization process that African peoples have been experienc
ing since Modernity. Indeed, much remains to be theorized about how Blac
k South Africans identify racially and relate to other Black individuals
from the rest of the African continent.
In this talk, Chris
Essombe (she/her) presents her preliminary findings from her doctoral r
esearch which, through a decolonial Africa(n)-centered psychology of ant
iracism, explores what South Africa’s Negrophobia reveals about po
stcolonial post-Apartheid contemporary racial identities of Black Africa
ns on the continent, appropriated racial oppression (ARO), and aspiratio
ns to whiteness. Findings also include a tentative genealogy of negropho
bic violence and its potential psychological implications for people of
African descent in South Africa and beyond.
For more details: https://events.
la.psu.edu/event/afi_chris-essombe/
URL:https://afi.la.psu.edu/programming/feminist-dialogues
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