Race and the Colour-Line addresses the foundational ideas about race and colonialism in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and reconnects them to the global manifestations that influenced them. Focusing on race and colonialism, this book indicates a shift in the global racial discourse an understanding of the specificity of Polish racism that can transform and add to our understandings of race in the West. Drawing on archival resources manuscripts, documents, and records from Poland and other parts of Europe, the book offers a compelling theoretical and historical context of race-making in the so-called peripheral sphere, whilest outlining the ways in which race and colonialism hasve been framed specifically within the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth and its empire in the Atlantic world. Following a race-conscious social analysis, the significance and originality of this work lie in tracing the specificity of bBlackness in Europe, and the very particular, but often neglected case of bBlack people in Central and Eastern EuropeCEE. To chart all this commendably, premised on critical race studies, the author uniquely explores the everyday racialized experiences of people of colour from Sub-Saharan African descent living in contemporary Poland and brings to the fore the obscurities of race and racism in the country. Through ethnographic research, the author shows how these particular people perform multiple identities in their daily lives as part of the configuration of a racially complex society. The demonstration of the globality of racism in this book examines the phenomenon of race beyond its usual context in the West, and as such will appeal to scholars from a range of disciplines including Sociology, Geography, Anthropology, Postcolonial, Polish, and Slavic Studies.
Premised on critical race theory and drawing on ethnographic research, this book explores the everyday racial experiences of people of colour from sub-Saharan African descent living in Poland, examining the ways in which the momentum of the Black Lives Matter movement has brought to the fore the obscurities of race and racism in the country.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART ONE: Locating Poland within the racialized Boundaries of Europeanness
1 Eastern Europe: the other Geographies in the Colonial Global Economy 1569
- 1795
2 Polish Lebensraum: the colonial ambition to expand on racial terms 1880s -
1930s
3 Eugenics, Race, and Nation formation in Central and Eastern Europe 1900s -
1940s
PART TWO: Living with experiences of race and racism
4 Polish-Centrism: Making sense of race and racism in Poland
5 Introducing and Recontextualizing Racial Microaggressions in Poland
6 Nacjonalizm the Polish national character
Epilogue: Demystifying race and racism in Poland
Bibliography
Index
Bolaji Balogun is a Sociologist based in the Department of Geography at the University of Sheffield, UK, where his research focuses on Colonization, Race, and Racialization in Central and Eastern Europe, with a specific focus on Poland. He holds the prestigious Leverhulme Trust ECR Fellowship. He is a visiting Scholar in the Department of International Relations at Krakow University of Economics, Poland, and previously held the Leverhulme Trust Fellowship Abroad at the same University in Poland. He is also a visiting Scholar at The Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, City University of New York, United States. He received his Doctorate from the University of Leeds, UK.
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