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Published: 01 January 2005
DOI: 10.1215/9780822385929-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8592-9
Published: 03 January 2006
DOI: 10.1215/9780822387947-011
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8794-7
Book Chapter

By Jessie Cox
Published: 03 January 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060420-001
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6042-0
Published: 01 January 2004
DOI: 10.1215/9780822385691-012
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8569-1
Published: 03 January 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060420-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6042-0
... Antiblackness in Switzerland, as well as Black lives, cannot be discussed due to a variety of reasons. Particularly, there is no common term to talk about Black Swiss, there is no Black Swiss community , and the way to talk about Black Swiss happens through immigration background...
Published: 03 January 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060420-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6042-0
... Swiss-based DJ and sound artist Maïté Chénière’s work Sonic S.cape breaks the individual listener up by requiring us to listen with not only our ears but also our eyes and our whole body. Created for the dance floor and combining sound as well as video, the piece unfurls an Afrofuturist outer...
Published: 03 January 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060420-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6042-0
... Swiss composer and clarinetist Jérémie Jolo’s pieces Perspectives and Blurred Colors and RED, 2018 aid in elaborating the kind of shift in listening and registering necessary to hear Black Swiss lives. W. E. B. Du Bois encountered a similar question over one hundred years ago with his study...
Published: 03 January 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060420-009
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6042-0
... To be able to think of Black Swiss lives, we must be able to hear them. This requires a refiguring of listening or methods of identification. The chapter uncovers the antiblackness of the archive and its entanglement with the articulation of citizenship. Followingly, an underground...
Published: 12 May 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822372875-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7287-5
... Ramadan, whose visa had been denied allegedly because of his small donations to a Swiss charity funding Palestinian aid committees; the other a trial in which a distinguished U.S. judge and part-time political blogger seems to have prejudged an important issue. Islamic charity terrorism...
Published: 03 January 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060420-008
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6042-0
... Uzor’s first work for George Floyd, 8′46″ George Floyd in Memoriam , presents a way to theorize blackness at the intersection of the aesthetic, the social, and philosophy. Uzor’s 8′46″ George Floyd in Memoriam is paired with an analogous work in the visual domain by German Ghanian, Swiss...
Published: 03 January 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060420-002
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6042-0
... Swiss Nigerian composer Charles Uzor’s work Bodycam Exhibit 3: George Floyd in Memoriam provides an opening to begin theorizing Black lives and antiblackness in Switzerland. In the global Black Lives Matter protests, Floyd’s murder became linked, in Switzerland, to the case of Mike Ben Peter...
Published: 03 January 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059042-017
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5904-2
... of physical likeness. Evidence suggests this unusual handling may have been triggered by the influence of Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, a prominent artist of Delaney’s acquaintance. The Delaney bust’s distinctive linear structure and attenuated proportions—absent in earlier portraits of Baldwin from 1965...
Book Chapter

By Didier Fassin
Published: 12 May 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7287-5
... was prevented from publicization. Two related cases are finally presented: one in which Benthall produced an expert affidavit in a U.S. lawsuit in favor of Tariq Ramadan, whose visa had been denied allegedly because of his small donations to a Swiss charity funding Palestinian aid committees; the other a trial...
Published: 03 January 2025
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5904-2
..., and absence of physical likeness. Evidence suggests this unusual handling may have been triggered by the influence of Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, a prominent artist of Delaney’s acquaintance. The Delaney bust’s distinctive linear structure and attenuated proportions—absent in earlier portraits...