'performance art often undoes the dominant symbolic order.' harrow
Agreed - and let us rejoice whenever it does that. But sometimes performance art actually does the opposite and
consolidates what it pretends or intends to challenge.
Professor Gloria Emeagwali
Prof. of History & African Studies
History Department
Central Connecticut State University
New Britain
CT 06050
africahistory.net
vimeo.com/user5946750/videos
Documentaries on Africa and the African Diaspora
________________________________________
From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com [usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of kenneth harrow [harrow@msu.edu]
Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2013 12:24 AM
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Sweden's Closet Racists
i agree his being african doesn't mean he can't be racist. in this case,
i do not believe he is in any reasonable sense racist. i saw the
performance, heard him talk about it, read the criticisms.
there has to be some point where we can escape from the traps of racism
which imply a binding in our thinking about the ways of being free from
racism. if you'll permit me to say this, i don't think you are opening
yourself enough to imagine ways of escaping the binds. if jews abetted
hitler, that meant they were working for their own destruction; creating
a performance that can be read in more than one way, whose ambiguities
might undermine the bases for colonial racist constructions, is not the
same.
performance art often undoes the dominant symbolic order. that's how
this might be read as well.
as for masquerading as art, that is a criticism that says, my way or the
highway, not, let's see where we can go.
i don't see why you want to take a rigid reading as the only permissible
one. it might well be that we are all aiming at the same goal, but
imagine different ways to move there.
ken
On 6/7/13 8:04 PM, Emeagwali, Gloria (History) wrote:
> I recall that there were quite a few Jews abetting Hitler
>
> during the holocaust. That does not make the holocaust any less a crime against humanity.
>
>
>
> The fact that this chap is an African- an Afro-Swedish
>
> who imbibed all the racist propaganda that Sweden fed him, does not
>
> negate the racist implications of his art.
>
>
>
> Racist propaganda masquerading as art and invoking poetic license
>
> is no less lethal and virulent than overt racism.Come to think of it
>
> all the racist cartoons and cartoonists of yesteryear,
>
> from apartheid South Africa to Alabama can invoke poetic license
>
> - I guess this would be 'artistic license.'
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Professor Gloria Emeagwali
> History Department
> Central Connecticut State University
> New Britain
> CT 06050
> africahistory.net
> vimeo.com/user5946750/videos
> Documentaries on Africa and the African Diaspora
> ________________________________________
> From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com [usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of kenneth harrow [harrow@msu.edu]
> Sent: Friday, June 07, 2013 1:08 AM
> To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Sweden's Closet Racists
>
> the cake is not an example of racism, not in any simple, straightforward
> understanding of the word.
> it is not an example of the expropriation of women's bodies, of
> racialized or african women's bodies. it matters that the artist is an
> african who wants to use the abuse to which sara bartmann's body was
> exposed so as to generate a performance of the outrage. it is completely
> tasteless, trashy, in the way that deconstructs the comfort zones of racism.
> you can retreat from art like this, choose a simple rational rejection
> of racism and sexism, and ultimately challenge nothing, staying within
> the comfort zones of a liberal social order.
> the artist chose violation instead.
> the review by patel strikes me as something that misses the point, or
> rejects the point.
> giuliani missed the point of ofili's black madonna as well, and tried to
> shut down the museum.
> finally, we don't have to accept the artist's work, in any event. but if
> we want to reject it, we'd need an argument that holds water, that works
> at the level that the performance does. it can be a failure. but i
> disagree entirely that it conveys any racist intent when it is ironizing
> racism in its performance. the reviewer doesn't get the irony, or
> refuses to deal with it because it is too vulgar for her sensibilities
> ken
>
> On 6/6/13 4:02 PM, Emeagwali, Gloria (History) wrote:
>> More on Swedish racism.
>> GE
>> ...........................................................
>> New York Times
>> Sweden's Closet Racists
>>
>> By JONAS HASSEN KHEMIRI
>>
>> Published: April 20, 2013
>>
>>
>> WELCOME to my body. Make yourself at home. From now on, we share skin, spine and nervous system. Here are our legs, which always want to run when we see a police car. Here are our hands, which always clench into fists when we hear politicians talk about the need for stronger borders, more internal ID checks, faster deportation of people without papers.
>> And these are our fingers, which recently wrote a very public letter to Sweden's justice minister, Beatrice Ask, after she went on the radio to defend racial profiling of passengers on Stockholm's subway.
>> On March 7, the minister told a nationwide audience: "One's experience of 'why someone has questioned me' can of course be very subjective," suggesting that racially profiled subway passengers were overreacting and that their anger was irrational. Without missing a beat, she continued, "There are some who have been previously convicted and feel that they are always questioned, even though you can't tell by looking at a person that they have committed a crime."
>> It was an interesting choice of words — "previously convicted." Because that's exactly what we are. All of us who are guilty until proved innocent. We Swedes who do not fit the outdated blond, blue-eyed stereotype of what a true Swede should look like. We whose personal experience makes us doubt our country's international reputation of being a paradise, with equal opportunities for everyone.
>> We remember the shame and the slights. ............................................................................................................................................................
>>
>>
>>
>> Unpacking the layers of Sweden's racist-misogynist cake
>> April 20, 2012 By Sokari 4 Comments
>> blacklooks.org
>>
>> Shailja Patel writing in Pambazuka News responds to the shockingly brutalisation of African women's bodies by the Swedish Artists Organisation – Lets be clear this action and the response by the artists in question does not stand alone. It should be studied closely in itself AND along with the growing acceptance of racism and racist action all of which point to the continuing brutalisation of African people in Europe and America [USA & Canada] and the attempt by white liberals to deflect the Black reality through the insidious myth of a post racial world.
>>
>> The missing ingredient in Sweden's racist-misogynist cake
>>
>> What makes the cake episode so deeply offensive is the appropriation, by both artist and his audience, of African women's bodies and experiences, while completely excluding real African women from the discourse. It is a pornography of violence.
>>
>> TOP LAYER
>>
>> The scene is Stockholm's Museum of Modern Art, on Sunday, April 15th. The event is the celebration of World Art Day, and the 75th birthday of the Swedish Artists Organisation. Five artists have been asked to create birthday cakes for the occasion.
>>
>> This is what the world will see, in photos and on video, the next morning.
>>
>> On the table, a huge cake, with a smooth shiny black surface, in the form of a caricatured African female body, sans legs. Naked, splayed on its back, it is composed of crotch, belly mound, large pendulous breasts held by truncated stick arms, a row of neck rings. Where the neck rings end, a living human head rears up through a hole in the table. The head belongs to the kneeling body of a man. It is tricked out in exaggerated blackface –large white circles around the eyes, drawn-on cartoon red mouth and pointed teeth.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com [usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of kenneth harrow [harrow@msu.edu]
>> Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 9:38 AM
>> To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
>> Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - FW: Sweden riots expose ugly side of Nordic model (Guardian)
>>
>> the cake is not a valid example. it was an african artist who made a
>> weird cake depicting sara bartmann, and as a performance artist, emitted
>> groans whenever it was cut.
>> you can call this a weird, grotesque, unpalatable effort...but there was
>> no racism unless you miss all the irony in the performance and take it
>> literally.
>> sort of like chris ofili's elephant dung used for his black madonna.
>> the general public has always read modern art and performance on a
>> literal level, i.e., on the surface, missing the point and blaming the
>> artist. another example would be criticisms of basquiat's figures as not
>> representing black people in a beautiful manner....
>> (that still leaves four more sites!)
>> ken
>> On 6/5/13 11:32 PM, Emeagwali, Gloria (History) wrote:
>>> Five sites on Swedish racism.
>>>
>>>
>>> Professor Gloria Emeagwali
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Swedish minister denies claims of racism over black woman ... <http://ccs.infospace.com/ClickHandler.ashx?du=www.guardian.co.uk%2fworld%2f2012%2fapr%2f17%2fsweden-europe-news&ru=http%3a%2f%2fwww.guardian.co.uk%2fworld%2f2012%2fapr%2f17%2fsweden-europe-news&ld=20130606&ap=5&app=1&c=facemoodsv4.1095&s=facemoodsv4&coi=771&cop=main-title&euip=70.134.227.140&npp=5&p=0&pp=0&pvaid=592e4a9124eb41d4b1ca7efad01c08ac&ep=5&mid=9&hash=574DF45E8B808DFED69B3FD36510E4B4>
>>>
>>> Sweden's minister of culture has been accused of racism after cutting
>>>
>>> a cake depicting a naked black woman. Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth
>>>
>>> was taking part in an ...
>>>
>>> www.guardian.co.uk/…/2012/apr/17/sweden-europe-news<http://ccs.infospace.com/ClickHandler.ashx?du=www.guardian.co.uk%2fworld%2f2012%2fapr%2f17%2fsweden-europe-news&ru=http%3a%2f%2fwww.guardian.co.uk%2fworld%2f2012%2fapr%2f17%2fsweden-europe-news&ld=20130606&ap=5&app=1&c=facemoodsv4.1095&s=facemoodsv4&coi=771&cop=main-title&euip=70.134.227.140&npp=5&p=0&pp=0&pvaid=592e4a9124eb41d4b1ca7efad01c08ac&ep=5&mid=9&hash=574DF45E8B808DFED69B3FD36510E4B4>
>>>
>>> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> http://newint.org/features/web-exclusive/2011/05/23/sweden-racism/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Sweden riots expose ugly side
>>> of 'Nordic model'
>>> Guardian
>>>
>>> * Stockholm riots challenge image of happy, generous state<http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/22/us-sweden-riots-idUSBRE94L1BW20130522>
>>> Wed, May 22 2013
>>> * Sweden's capital hit by worst riots in years<http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/22/us-sweden-riots-idUSBRE94L0CH20130522>
>>> Wed, May 22 2013
>>>
>>> By Niklas Pollard and Philip O'Connor
>>>
>>> STOCKHOLM | Thu May 23, 2013 10:21am EDT
>>>
>>> STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The scene of Sweden's worst riots in years, Husby
>>>
>>> is on the surface at least a typically neat suburb of
>>>
>>> colorful playgrounds, manicured parks and low rise apartment buildings.
>>>
>>> Conversations with residents of this immigrant neighborhood soon bring tales
>>>
>>> of fruitless job hunts, police harassment, racial taunts and a feeling
>>>
>>> of living at the margins that are at odds with Sweden's reputation for openness and tolerance.
>>>
>>> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>
>>>
>>> http://kenyastockholm.com/2011/05/22/growing-racism-against-africans-in-sweden/
>>>
>>> This article referred to a mock slave auction in 2011 in Lund.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ________________________________
>>> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>
>>>
>>> Stockholm riots leave Sweden's dreams of perfect society up ... <http://ccs.infospace.com/ClickHandler.ashx?du=www.telegraph.co.uk%2fnews%2fworldnews%2feurope%2fsweden%2f...&ru=http%3a%2f%2fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2fnews%2fworldnews%2feurope%2fsweden%2f10080320%2fStockholm-riots-leave-Swedens-dreams-of-perfect-society-up-in-smoke.html&ld=20130606&ap=9&app=1&c=facemoodsv4.1095&s=facemoodsv4&coi=771&cop=main-title&euip=70.134.227.140&npp=9&p=0&pp=0&pvaid=9279da057c6f450b8a12b94cc543b26c&ep=9&mid=9&hash=F891EA2EA1FA5B0333821AB4676CD1E9>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Stockholm riots leave Sweden's dreams of perfect society up in smoke A week of
>>>
>>> disturbances in Sweden's capital has tested the Scandinavian nation's reputation for ...
>>>
>>> www.telegraph.co.uk/…ws/worldnews/europe/sweden/...<http://ccs.infospace.com/ClickHandler.ashx?du=www.telegraph.co.uk%2fnews%2fworldnews%2feurope%2fsweden%2f...&ru=http%3a%2f%2fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2fnews%2fworldnews%2feurope%2fsweden%2f10080320%2fStockholm-riots-leave-Swedens-dreams-of-perfect-society-up-in-smoke.html&ld=20130606&ap=9&app=1&c=facemoodsv4.1095&s=facemoodsv4&coi=771&cop=main-title&euip=70.134.227.140&npp=9&p=0&pp=0&pvaid=9279da057c6f450b8a12b94cc543b26c&ep=9&mid=9&hash=F891EA2EA1FA5B0333821AB4676CD1E9>
>>>
>>>
>>> ________________________________
>>>
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Agreed - and let us rejoice whenever it does that. But sometimes performance art actually does the opposite and
consolidates what it pretends or intends to challenge.
Professor Gloria Emeagwali
Prof. of History & African Studies
History Department
Central Connecticut State University
New Britain
CT 06050
africahistory.net
vimeo.com/user5946750/videos
Documentaries on Africa and the African Diaspora
________________________________________
From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com [usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of kenneth harrow [harrow@msu.edu]
Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2013 12:24 AM
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Sweden's Closet Racists
i agree his being african doesn't mean he can't be racist. in this case,
i do not believe he is in any reasonable sense racist. i saw the
performance, heard him talk about it, read the criticisms.
there has to be some point where we can escape from the traps of racism
which imply a binding in our thinking about the ways of being free from
racism. if you'll permit me to say this, i don't think you are opening
yourself enough to imagine ways of escaping the binds. if jews abetted
hitler, that meant they were working for their own destruction; creating
a performance that can be read in more than one way, whose ambiguities
might undermine the bases for colonial racist constructions, is not the
same.
performance art often undoes the dominant symbolic order. that's how
this might be read as well.
as for masquerading as art, that is a criticism that says, my way or the
highway, not, let's see where we can go.
i don't see why you want to take a rigid reading as the only permissible
one. it might well be that we are all aiming at the same goal, but
imagine different ways to move there.
ken
On 6/7/13 8:04 PM, Emeagwali, Gloria (History) wrote:
> I recall that there were quite a few Jews abetting Hitler
>
> during the holocaust. That does not make the holocaust any less a crime against humanity.
>
>
>
> The fact that this chap is an African- an Afro-Swedish
>
> who imbibed all the racist propaganda that Sweden fed him, does not
>
> negate the racist implications of his art.
>
>
>
> Racist propaganda masquerading as art and invoking poetic license
>
> is no less lethal and virulent than overt racism.Come to think of it
>
> all the racist cartoons and cartoonists of yesteryear,
>
> from apartheid South Africa to Alabama can invoke poetic license
>
> - I guess this would be 'artistic license.'
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Professor Gloria Emeagwali
> History Department
> Central Connecticut State University
> New Britain
> CT 06050
> africahistory.net
> vimeo.com/user5946750/videos
> Documentaries on Africa and the African Diaspora
> ________________________________________
> From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com [usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of kenneth harrow [harrow@msu.edu]
> Sent: Friday, June 07, 2013 1:08 AM
> To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Sweden's Closet Racists
>
> the cake is not an example of racism, not in any simple, straightforward
> understanding of the word.
> it is not an example of the expropriation of women's bodies, of
> racialized or african women's bodies. it matters that the artist is an
> african who wants to use the abuse to which sara bartmann's body was
> exposed so as to generate a performance of the outrage. it is completely
> tasteless, trashy, in the way that deconstructs the comfort zones of racism.
> you can retreat from art like this, choose a simple rational rejection
> of racism and sexism, and ultimately challenge nothing, staying within
> the comfort zones of a liberal social order.
> the artist chose violation instead.
> the review by patel strikes me as something that misses the point, or
> rejects the point.
> giuliani missed the point of ofili's black madonna as well, and tried to
> shut down the museum.
> finally, we don't have to accept the artist's work, in any event. but if
> we want to reject it, we'd need an argument that holds water, that works
> at the level that the performance does. it can be a failure. but i
> disagree entirely that it conveys any racist intent when it is ironizing
> racism in its performance. the reviewer doesn't get the irony, or
> refuses to deal with it because it is too vulgar for her sensibilities
> ken
>
> On 6/6/13 4:02 PM, Emeagwali, Gloria (History) wrote:
>> More on Swedish racism.
>> GE
>> ...........................................................
>> New York Times
>> Sweden's Closet Racists
>>
>> By JONAS HASSEN KHEMIRI
>>
>> Published: April 20, 2013
>>
>>
>> WELCOME to my body. Make yourself at home. From now on, we share skin, spine and nervous system. Here are our legs, which always want to run when we see a police car. Here are our hands, which always clench into fists when we hear politicians talk about the need for stronger borders, more internal ID checks, faster deportation of people without papers.
>> And these are our fingers, which recently wrote a very public letter to Sweden's justice minister, Beatrice Ask, after she went on the radio to defend racial profiling of passengers on Stockholm's subway.
>> On March 7, the minister told a nationwide audience: "One's experience of 'why someone has questioned me' can of course be very subjective," suggesting that racially profiled subway passengers were overreacting and that their anger was irrational. Without missing a beat, she continued, "There are some who have been previously convicted and feel that they are always questioned, even though you can't tell by looking at a person that they have committed a crime."
>> It was an interesting choice of words — "previously convicted." Because that's exactly what we are. All of us who are guilty until proved innocent. We Swedes who do not fit the outdated blond, blue-eyed stereotype of what a true Swede should look like. We whose personal experience makes us doubt our country's international reputation of being a paradise, with equal opportunities for everyone.
>> We remember the shame and the slights. ............................................................................................................................................................
>>
>>
>>
>> Unpacking the layers of Sweden's racist-misogynist cake
>> April 20, 2012 By Sokari 4 Comments
>> blacklooks.org
>>
>> Shailja Patel writing in Pambazuka News responds to the shockingly brutalisation of African women's bodies by the Swedish Artists Organisation – Lets be clear this action and the response by the artists in question does not stand alone. It should be studied closely in itself AND along with the growing acceptance of racism and racist action all of which point to the continuing brutalisation of African people in Europe and America [USA & Canada] and the attempt by white liberals to deflect the Black reality through the insidious myth of a post racial world.
>>
>> The missing ingredient in Sweden's racist-misogynist cake
>>
>> What makes the cake episode so deeply offensive is the appropriation, by both artist and his audience, of African women's bodies and experiences, while completely excluding real African women from the discourse. It is a pornography of violence.
>>
>> TOP LAYER
>>
>> The scene is Stockholm's Museum of Modern Art, on Sunday, April 15th. The event is the celebration of World Art Day, and the 75th birthday of the Swedish Artists Organisation. Five artists have been asked to create birthday cakes for the occasion.
>>
>> This is what the world will see, in photos and on video, the next morning.
>>
>> On the table, a huge cake, with a smooth shiny black surface, in the form of a caricatured African female body, sans legs. Naked, splayed on its back, it is composed of crotch, belly mound, large pendulous breasts held by truncated stick arms, a row of neck rings. Where the neck rings end, a living human head rears up through a hole in the table. The head belongs to the kneeling body of a man. It is tricked out in exaggerated blackface –large white circles around the eyes, drawn-on cartoon red mouth and pointed teeth.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com [usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of kenneth harrow [harrow@msu.edu]
>> Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 9:38 AM
>> To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
>> Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - FW: Sweden riots expose ugly side of Nordic model (Guardian)
>>
>> the cake is not a valid example. it was an african artist who made a
>> weird cake depicting sara bartmann, and as a performance artist, emitted
>> groans whenever it was cut.
>> you can call this a weird, grotesque, unpalatable effort...but there was
>> no racism unless you miss all the irony in the performance and take it
>> literally.
>> sort of like chris ofili's elephant dung used for his black madonna.
>> the general public has always read modern art and performance on a
>> literal level, i.e., on the surface, missing the point and blaming the
>> artist. another example would be criticisms of basquiat's figures as not
>> representing black people in a beautiful manner....
>> (that still leaves four more sites!)
>> ken
>> On 6/5/13 11:32 PM, Emeagwali, Gloria (History) wrote:
>>> Five sites on Swedish racism.
>>>
>>>
>>> Professor Gloria Emeagwali
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>>> Sweden's minister of culture has been accused of racism after cutting
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>>> a cake depicting a naked black woman. Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth
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>>> was taking part in an ...
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>>> Sweden riots expose ugly side
>>> of 'Nordic model'
>>> Guardian
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>>> * Stockholm riots challenge image of happy, generous state<http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/22/us-sweden-riots-idUSBRE94L1BW20130522>
>>> Wed, May 22 2013
>>> * Sweden's capital hit by worst riots in years<http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/22/us-sweden-riots-idUSBRE94L0CH20130522>
>>> Wed, May 22 2013
>>>
>>> By Niklas Pollard and Philip O'Connor
>>>
>>> STOCKHOLM | Thu May 23, 2013 10:21am EDT
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>>> STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The scene of Sweden's worst riots in years, Husby
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>>> is on the surface at least a typically neat suburb of
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>>> colorful playgrounds, manicured parks and low rise apartment buildings.
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>>> Conversations with residents of this immigrant neighborhood soon bring tales
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>>> of fruitless job hunts, police harassment, racial taunts and a feeling
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>>> of living at the margins that are at odds with Sweden's reputation for openness and tolerance.
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>>> http://kenyastockholm.com/2011/05/22/growing-racism-against-africans-in-sweden/
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>>> This article referred to a mock slave auction in 2011 in Lund.
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>>> Stockholm riots leave Sweden's dreams of perfect society up in smoke A week of
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>>> disturbances in Sweden's capital has tested the Scandinavian nation's reputation for ...
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