Coloniality, whiteness and systemic racism in Sweden : An email conversation

Publication Type:
chapter
Date Issued:
2024
Authors:
Minoo Alinia , Sarah Hamed , Domino Kai , Jasmine Kelekay , Michael McEachrane , Maribel Morey , Paula Mulinari , Anders Neergaard
Publisher:
Routledge
Language:
eng
Page:
195-214
DOI:
10.4324/9781003396611-12
ISBN:
9781040261743

This email conversation revolves around ten decolonial propositions on Sweden. It offers reflections on the roles of race in Swedish society. Including, its denials or forgetting, its intersections with gender, sexuality, religion, culture, nationhood, migration, class and other social categories, the roles of blackness and whiteness to anti-racist struggles, the realities of residential racial segregation, the existence of racism in healthcare, the internal colonialism of Roma in Europe, the ties of race and whiteness to colonial history, and more.