Encountering Race in Albania

An Ethnography of the Communist Afterlife

Chelsi West Ohueri (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2025
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-8186-5 (ISBN)

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Encountering Race in Albania is the first book to interrogate race and racial logics in Albania. Chelsi West Ohueri examines how race is made, remade, produced, and reproduced through constructions of whiteness, blackness, and otherness. She argues that while race is often limited to Western processes of modernity that exclude Eastern Europe, racialization processes are global, and the ethnography of everyday Albanian socialities makes visible how race operates. Historical and political science frameworks prevail in the study of post-Cold War East European societies, yet as West Ohueri shows, anthropological and ethnographic knowledge can equip scholars to ask questions that they might otherwise not consider, illustrating how racialization is ongoing and enduring in a period that she terms the communist afterlife. Encountering Race in Albania, through the unexpected optic of Albania, a small, formerly communist country in Southeast Europe, offers significant insights into into broader understandings of race in a global context.

Chelsi West Ohueri is Assistant Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at University of Texas, Austin. Her work focuses on ethnographic studies of race and racialization, belonging, marginalization, and medical anthropology, primarily in Albania and Southeast Europe.

Introduction
1. The Communist Afterlife
2. The Trial of the Anthropologist
3. Peripheral Whiteness
4. On Blackness: A Story in Six Names
5. A Question of Racism in Three Acts
Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	02.05.2025
Zusatzinfo	15 b&w halftones, 1 map - 15 Halftones, black and white - 1 Maps
Verlagsort	Ithaca
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	907 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	1-5017-8186-3 / 1501781863
ISBN-13	978-1-5017-8186-5 / 9781501781865
Zustand	Neuware