Piro Rexhepi, "White Enclosures: Racial Capitalism and Coloniality Along the Balkan Route" (Duke UP, 2022)
New Books in Anthropology
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Is There a Regeneration of Racism in Europe?
I was trying to situate how the post Ottoman world, particularly in the Balkans figures in all of these processes. I think the fear was also from a larger if you look at it from a larger global history. And that's why they were also called Atlantis right with secure a space where white demographics would be the majority and there wouldn't be this danger to white supremacy essentially. The pressure to project themselves as European as white as secular is where all of this essentially starts.
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