Luis Escobedo

University of the Free State | ufs · Unit for Institutional Change and Social Justice

Competing parties in the coming election show little concern about a structure that allows racism to prevail

FIFA was created in Paris in 1904 in order to oversee international football competitions among eight European states. The fact that FIFA was created by eight European states at the turn of the twentieth century is significant. The geopolitical context of the period is important for understanding FIFA’s pro- colonialist roots. With the exception of...

Drawing upon Paulo Drinot's works on how racialized assumptions have been central to the transition toward industrialization, and neoliberalism in early 20 th-, and early 21 st-century Peru, respectively, this monograph analyses how contemporary powerful state agents efficiently naturalize whiteness among Peruvians by equating it with progress and...

Between the 1960s and 1980s the ruling of the far-left Military Junta and the subsequent economic and political crisis brought about the emigration of a large number of mainly middle- and upper-class Peruvians. Toward the 1990s, amid increasing border restrictions from receiving states, they were joined by the mass emigration of mostly the working...

Throughout the Republican era, the Peruvian State and élites have envisioned and endeavoured the construction of a Western, European, urban, Coastal, Limeño, Creole, ‘white’ nation. This vision has contrasted with the idea of an Andean, rural, Serrano (people from the mountains), Amazonian, indigenous, ‘non-white’ Peru. In turn, given the fact that...

For minority employees at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), the organisation has enriched their careers, while offering equality, diversity and inclusivity (EDI) measures to mitigate some of the issues affecting them. However, the way they belong to BAS remains impacted by the structural and everyday practices that shape their lives through ident...

The focus on experience in the process of collective identification highlights the individual peculiarities of those grouped or categorized together under a certain name. This chapter considers that just as one’s individual idiosyncrasy can be highlighted at the experiential level, so can their gaze encapsulate and combine a multitude of ways of se...

This anti-racist pedagogy guide is intended for teachers of students from roughly age 12 through the university level. It is specifically aimed at spreading knowledge about Romani peoples through the lens of critical race theory. It asks: How do we teach about Romani individuals, culture, history, and the intersection of politics, society, economic...

Despite my-5 prescription glasses, I have never been shortsighted in the face of racism. This is not because I might be enlightened. I just had no chance. The fact is that a pair of eyes is no requirement to understand it. Racism first hurts the heart, the mind, one's life and experience.

This essay is a part of our "Crosstalk" series featuring stories from graduate students of color. Read more in our special issue, "Crosstalk: Graduate Students of Color Reflect on Lessons Lived and Learned in the Academy," now available in hardcopy and on Project MUSE and JSTOR. Read essay here: https://womengenderandfamilies.ku.edu/uncategorized/...

The objective of this chapter is to explore the way in which the national identity of a single Peruvian migrant like Julio functions in the tension between the context of a changing post-apartheid African city like Bloemfontein, where Peruvian migration is numerically insignificant, and his role as an individual to whom national identity is not mea...

This book includes numerous examples of violent reductive categorisation, which have caused different degrees of harm and led to varying responses form the individuals affected. In this chapter we explore how these individuals experienced being categorised and what strategies they developed in order to negotiate and manage these ascribed social cat...

Engaging with migrants' life stories provides a fuller and more complex depiction of them and their social identities. In this chapter we reflect on this methodology. We argue that narrative life story research allows us to understand and represent individuals beyond reductive social categories, and in this way to transcend these categories. This i...

Migrants, Thinkers, Storytellers develops an argument about how individual migrants, coming from four continents and diverse socioeconomic backgrounds, are in many ways affected by a violent categorisation that is often nihilistic, insistently racial, and continuously significant in the organisation of South African society. The book also examines...

More than seven years have passed since the first time my categorisation as a woman, my racialization as ‘white’, and migrant status conflated to make my transition towards life and career in South Africa particularly laborious. It was the beginning of 2014, when my participation in the installation of a semi-passive water treatment plant at pilot...

This blog post is about how individuals are categorised as they move across social geographies of race, and how they claim their individuality in the process. See full post here: https://mmblatinamerica.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2020/09/10/northwards-across-social-geographies-of-race/

Corrections: I am not a sports journalist. I am not responsible for the title, the illustrations, and the first three and the last paragraphs. They were added or changed without my consent.

I don’t regret not having watched the Peruvian national (men’s) football team play the second leg of the playoffs against New Zealand last Wednesday night (Lima time).

Two Peruvians uniting with their fellow global citizens to talk about pressing global issues.

This one goes out to all the immigrants who have ever struggled with their oficial migration. The following is a painstaking story some of us will be all too familiar with.

Peru’s Minister of Culture Salvador del Solar has begun the complex process of bringing racism in Peru to light.

A well-known Afro-Peruvian activist and TV journalist Sofia Carrillo sparked widespread comment and debate over racism in Peru following an incident in airport.

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From a Peruvian-born academic point of view, what does racism look like in Peru?

Since the beginning of the 16 th century, Peruvian society has undergone an intense ethnic and cultural mixing. This process has involved fusion and diversity, whereby it has revealed a variety of antagonisms and conflict, especially found between the regions of the Coast – particularly, Lima – and the Andean Mountains. The importance of Lima as a...

Od początku XVI w. społeczeństwo Peru zostało poddane intensywnemu wymieszaniu pod względem etnicznym i kulturowym. Proces ten obejmował łączenie i godzenie różnorodności, jednakże odsłonił także liczne antagonizmy i konflikty, szczególnie widoczne pomiędzy regionami na Wybrzeżu (zwłaszcza w Limie) a Andami. Znacząca pozycja Limy jako ośrodka polit...