Race and Markets
(ISRF Bulletin, Issue 23, 2021)
RIM Guest Editors:
Francesca Sobande, Cardiff University, UK
Alice Schoonejans, Université Paris-Dauphine – PSL, France
Guillaume D. Johnson, CNRS, France
Kevin D Thomas, Marquette University, USA
Anthony Kwame Harrison, Virginia Tech, USA
Sonya A. Grier, American University, USA
Description
Structured around the theme of ‘Race and Markets,’ the contributions of this issue of the ISRF Bulletin investigate the many complex relations between racial identities and markets, reflecting along the way on the (photographic) gaze, racialised forms of marketing, and questions of anti-racist strategy.
Table of Contents
Foreword:
Editorial to ISRF Bulletin 23: Race and Markets
Lars Cornelissen
Introduction:
Crossing Visionary Boundaries
Francesca Sobande, Alice Schoonejans, Guillaume D. Johnson, Kevin D. Thomas, Anthony Kwame Harrison, Sonya A. Grier
Articles:
Strolling with a Question: Is it Possible to Be a Black Flâneur?
Francesca Sobande, Alice Schoonejans, Guillaume D. Johnson, Kevin D. Thomas, Anthony Kwame Harrison
Brown Girl in the Lens
Zuleka Randell Woods, Anthony Kwame Harrison
The Forbidden Picture
Guillaume D. Johnson
Fast Food Relics
Naa Oyo A. Kwate
The Writing on the Wall
Sonya A. Grier
Asking Immigrants for Money: Marketing Remittances Services around the World
Ernesto Castañeda
Editing as Anti-Racism
Bel Parnell-Berry, Noémi Michel
Midcentury Dance Records and Representations of Identity
Janet Borgerson & Jonathan Schroeder
Visual Incarceration and the ‘Other’ Prisoner: A Poetic Inquiry
Hilary Downey
Descriptions
Francesca Sobande
Alice Schoonejans Guillaume D. Johnson
Kevin D. Thomas
Anthony Kwame Harrison
Strolling with a Question: Is it Possible to Be a Black Flâneur?
The authors engage in a dialogue about whether it makes sense to talk about non-White flâneurs and about the ways they can envision renewed figures of the flâneur.
Zuleka Randell Woods Anthony Kwame Harrison
Brown Girl in the Lens
Zuleka Randell Woods and Anthony Kwame Harrison explore what happens when the photographic gaze meets that of the photographed.
Guillaume D. Johnson
The Forbidden Picture
Guillaume D. Johnson reflects on a conversation between him, his father, and a Nigerian trader on the complex afterlives of colonialism.
Naa Oyo A. Kwate
Fast Food Relics
Naa Oyo A. Kwate asks what a 1981 picture of a derelict McDonald’s franchise in Compton, California, can tell us about the broader history of racialised deindustrialisation.
Sonya A. Grier
The Writing on the Wall
Sonya A. Grier asks what the storefront of a local cannabis dispensary in Washington, D.C. can tell us about the state of contemporary (Black) capitalism.
Ernesto Castañeda
Asking Immigrants for Money: Marketing Remittances Services around the World
Ernesto Castañeda explores the way remittances services advertise their services and the role racial identity plays in this discourse.
Bel Parnell-Berry
Noémi Michel
Editing as Anti-Racism
Bel Parnell-Berry and Noémi Michel reflect on their own experience of, and resistance to, everyday racism, and exemplify and conceptualise a form of anti-racist editing that can work to support and sustain this resistance.
Janet Borgerson
Jonathan Schroeder
Midcentury Dance Records and Representations of Identity
Janet Borgerson and Jonathan Schroeder discuss what the covers of dance records can tell us about the history of racial identity in the United States.
Hilary Downey
Visual Incarceration and the ‘Other’ Prisoner: A Poetic Inquiry
Hilary Downey offers us a poetic inquiry into African-American women’s experiences of incarceration.