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This fundraiser intends to support translations of selected submissions to the special issue (13.2) on Rising up against Racism in the Americas and beyond of the open-access, not-for-profit social movement journal, Interface , which entirely relies on the editors' and contributors' political commitments.
The Covid-19 pandemic has put a spotlight on racism as a structural and institutional ill of capitalism. The vicious police killings of Breonna Taylor on 13 March and George Floyd on 25 May 2020 make it even more apparent that anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism in particular undergird racial capitalism and ignited uprisings and protests against institutional racism not only in the US, but across much of the ‘Global North’. This happened just at a time when most of the world was in lockdown and activists wondered how the Covid-19 pandemic and, in particular, the quarantine would affect our ability to organise collectively against injustice and discrimination.
In Latin America, (debates about) racism and anti-racism become manifest in growing radicalisation and movements of indigenous peoples that have raised awareness of structural racism across these continents and the grotesque killing of João Alberto Silveira Freitas on 19 November 2020, a Black person, by Carrefour supermarket security staff in Porto Alegre, Brasil, has prompted anti-racist protests across that country. Yet, with Latin America as the new pandemic’s hotspot at the time of writing, energies in this region are still focused on Covid-19 itself and the social and economic consequences; we are yet to see whether the antiracist movements in the north will reverberate more strongly in the south.
To engender a multilogue about institutional racism in the Americas - North and South - Interface, a journal about and for social movements organizes a special issue entitled Rising up against institutional racism in the Americas and beyond, which will feature reflections, interviews, ethnographic accounts event analyses of collective action against racism primarily in the Americas, and more, in English Spanish and Portuguese and is due to be published in November/ December 2021. In addition to a Call for Papers, we have invited scholars, activists and practitioners to write a contribution some of which we would like to translate into English, Spanish or Portuguese.
To further enhance this multilogue on institutional racism and help advance the growing movements of anti-racism, create connections, understandings and interactions across the Americas and beyond, we plan to feature a selection of the articles in two languages: Spanish/Porguese AND English. As an open-access and non-indexed journal run by activist scholars on the basis of commitment, unlike commercial journals, we do not have any funds at our disposal, and this is where we ask you, the readers and supporters of open-access, multi-lingual and politically committed publications like Interface, or with an interest in supporting anti-racism, for help. The translation of key publications will facilitate the debate across cultural and socio-linguistic boundaries and enable a broader audience and engagement for our authors.
WHAT WE NEED:
Our objective is, initially, to raise 2000 Euro before September 1 (2021) to cover translation fees of selected contributions from Spanish/Portugues into English, and vice versa. Your financial support will sponsor this important, multi-lingual multilogue! Any remaining funds from this collection will support similar efforts of this journal in future.
WHAT YOU GET:
Eternal gratefulness on our part, the satisfaction to have contributed to this important cause to create a resource for the movements against racism, and a link that provides free access to this special issue and the translations.
The Covid-19 pandemic has put a spotlight on racism as a structural and institutional ill of capitalism. The vicious police killings of Breonna Taylor on 13 March and George Floyd on 25 May 2020 make it even more apparent that anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism in particular undergird racial capitalism and ignited uprisings and protests against institutional racism not only in the US, but across much of the ‘Global North’. This happened just at a time when most of the world was in lockdown and activists wondered how the Covid-19 pandemic and, in particular, the quarantine would affect our ability to organise collectively against injustice and discrimination.
In Latin America, (debates about) racism and anti-racism become manifest in growing radicalisation and movements of indigenous peoples that have raised awareness of structural racism across these continents and the grotesque killing of João Alberto Silveira Freitas on 19 November 2020, a Black person, by Carrefour supermarket security staff in Porto Alegre, Brasil, has prompted anti-racist protests across that country. Yet, with Latin America as the new pandemic’s hotspot at the time of writing, energies in this region are still focused on Covid-19 itself and the social and economic consequences; we are yet to see whether the antiracist movements in the north will reverberate more strongly in the south.
To engender a multilogue about institutional racism in the Americas - North and South - Interface, a journal about and for social movements organizes a special issue entitled Rising up against institutional racism in the Americas and beyond, which will feature reflections, interviews, ethnographic accounts event analyses of collective action against racism primarily in the Americas, and more, in English Spanish and Portuguese and is due to be published in November/ December 2021. In addition to a Call for Papers, we have invited scholars, activists and practitioners to write a contribution some of which we would like to translate into English, Spanish or Portuguese.
To further enhance this multilogue on institutional racism and help advance the growing movements of anti-racism, create connections, understandings and interactions across the Americas and beyond, we plan to feature a selection of the articles in two languages: Spanish/Porguese AND English. As an open-access and non-indexed journal run by activist scholars on the basis of commitment, unlike commercial journals, we do not have any funds at our disposal, and this is where we ask you, the readers and supporters of open-access, multi-lingual and politically committed publications like Interface, or with an interest in supporting anti-racism, for help. The translation of key publications will facilitate the debate across cultural and socio-linguistic boundaries and enable a broader audience and engagement for our authors.
WHAT WE NEED:
Our objective is, initially, to raise 2000 Euro before September 1 (2021) to cover translation fees of selected contributions from Spanish/Portugues into English, and vice versa. Your financial support will sponsor this important, multi-lingual multilogue! Any remaining funds from this collection will support similar efforts of this journal in future.
WHAT YOU GET:
Eternal gratefulness on our part, the satisfaction to have contributed to this important cause to create a resource for the movements against racism, and a link that provides free access to this special issue and the translations.
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Elisabet Rasch
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