P. Khalil Saucier is Chair and Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Bucknell University, and author of Necessarily Black: Cape Verdean Youth, Hip-Hop Culture, and a Critique of Identity (Michigan State Univ Press, 2015).
This debate has failed to engage with the enduring structure of racial slavery. As representations of African migrants in the Mediterranean illustrate, anti-trafficking campaigns feed into the problem they aim to dismantle.
Invisible to even the most progressive Europeans, antiblackness is the foundation from which to understand the tragedies now occurring in the Mediterranean Basin.
Invisible to even the most progressive Europeans, antiblackness is the foundation from which to understand the tragedies now occurring in the Mediterranean Basin.