B St Louis
Biographic Data
| ID | 12933 |
|---|---|
| NAME | B St Louis |
| GIVEN NAMES | B St |
| FAMILY NAME | Louis |
| SIGNATURE | LOUIS B S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9494-2191 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Civil ordering, antiracism and the dilemmatic promise of racial eliminativism
This article theorises racial eliminativism and civil ordering operating in combination as ongoing processes to eradicate race and counteract racism. Racial eliminativism and civil ordering are initially explicated as complementary ideational and institutional provisions. The paper then develops this interchange between racial eliminativism and civil order in three sections. Section 1 assesses the salience of legal definitions of race and its sta…
The end of Bame’? Neoliberal post-multiculturalism, racism denial and the state
‘BAME’ has been used in the UK since the 1990s to denote ‘Black, Asian and minority ethnic’ people. The combination of varied ethnic groups within BAME as a single collective category has proven controversial. This article focuses on the UK state critique of BAME and governmental decision to disuse the acronym announced in 2022. Methodologically, the article uses purposive sampling of key governmental, public sector and civil society sources. The…
Living with political difference: A Mutualist Ethos for Antiracisms
Repairing the legacies of racism: Reading Radical Reparations
Race as injustice and the im/possibility of racial justice
This review essay presents exposition and analysis of Nasar Meer’s, The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice. I outline Meer’s argument detailing the historical emergence and ongoing social reproduction of racial injustice in relation to nation formation, endemic racism, health inequalities, restrictions on refugees and asylum, and White supremacism as pervasive throughout western societies. I suggest that Meer’s intervention usefully highlights raci…
Race as technology and the carceral methodologies of molecular racialization
This article counters the view (albeit contested) of race as a natural empirical object with technology as a secondary, external entity applied to it. Instead, I posit race itself as a technology that is inherently discriminatory in motivation, design and function, as evident throughout its brutally effective history. Focusing on the post/genomic era, I consider contemporary forms of molecular racialization as the latest technological iteration o…
Stuart Hall, a peerless mediator
The authors discuss Stuart Hall's lifelong critical engagement with Marxism - though his was a complex, subtle, agonistic, Marxism, where nothing is taken for granted. This engagement continued even as postcoloniality, ethnicity, race and identity steadily came to the centre of Hall's attention, constituting ways of thinking that in some ways represented a departure. Hall can be seen as a mediator, both within Marxism - for example structuralism …
Post-millennial local whiteness: Racialism, White Dis/Advantage and the Denial of Racism
In the tumultuous early twenty-first century, vigorous appeals to whiteness in Britain are largely attributed to populist ethno-nationalism. This article offers a complementary critical account focusing on the use of "racialism" as a purportedly non-invidious theoretical framework for describing racial differences and resultant societal impacts. Drawing on recent examples, especially the work of David Goodhart and Eric Kaufmann, I consider the de…
Post/colonial palimpsest and the place of ideas
This review explores Hall’s memoir as reflecting on the correspondence between his life and ideas and demonstrating the ways in which Hall’s vital Jamaican upbringing and Caribbean background underwrite his theoretical and political commitments. The review shows the Caribbean as central to formations of modernity and traces how Hall’s own coming to terms with his position in the world informs his critical approach that carries a series of respons…
Theories of Race and Ethnicity: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives
How have research agendas on race and ethnic relations changed over the past two decades and what new developments have emerged? Theories of Race and Ethnicity provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge collection of theoretically grounded and empirically informed essays. It covers a range of key issues in race and ethnicity studies, such as genetics and race, post-race debates, racial eliminativism and the legacy of Barack Obama, and mixed race i…
In memoriam: Professor Stuart McPhail Hall (1932–2014)
Identities: New directions in uncertain times
On ‘The Necessity and the “Impossibility” of Identities’: The politics and ethics of ‘new ethnicities’
This article assesses Stuart Hall's work on identity and ethnicity, principally the dialectic of ‘impossibility’ and ‘necessity’ within his understanding of the formation of identities. The article outlines Hall's extensively rehearsed arguments on the ‘impossibility’ of essential identities and his description of the ‘necessity’ of identities as historical and social ‘positions’ strategically adopted by individuals as a political and psychic res…
After '68: The Left and Twenty-First Century Political Projects
In broad terms '1968' still stands as a signifier of social and political radicalism. Workers' mass action and students' protests signal an age of powerful labour and politicised youth; the impassioned commitments of 'engaged intellectual' and citizen alike show a synergy between the life of the mind and activism; fierce philosophical debates illustrate the vitality of ideas; and the expansive critical vision and hope reaching throughout the soci…
Rethinking Race, Politics, and Poetics
Rethinking Race, Politics, and Poetics offers a critical appraisal of C.L.R. James as a major twentieth-century activist-intellectual, exploring his prolific output spanning decades within genres as diverse as history, philosophy, sociology, literary and cultural criticism, prose fiction, and reportage. The book also analyzes some of the flaws and contradictions that surfaced within James’ writings as a consequence of the difficult circumstances …
The Vocation of Sport Sociology
The difference sameness makes: Racial recognition and the ‘narcissism of minor differences
This article examines the form and effects of differentiation that surface within the artifice of racial sameness. Using contemporary debates between ‘native-born’ and ‘foreign-born’ blacks in the USA over the right to ‘African American’ identity and the socioeconomic threat posed to the former by the latter, I show how the operation of the logic of race internally within a racial group reiterates familiar effects of racialization. Drawing on Fre…
Sport and common‐sense racial science
This paper confronts the salience of arguments that identify the racial basis of athletic ability. It is argued that these notions of racial athleticism are developed through the interaction between ideas and ways of thinking about human beings and racial groups, reflecting Gramsci's concept of ‘common sense’ that explores the complex correspondence between the presentation of fact and opinion, science and myth. The paper suggests that the mobili…
Sport, Genetics and the `Natural Athlete: The Resurgence of Racial Science
This article explores the ethical implications of recent discussions that naturalize the relationship between race, the body and sport within the frame of genetic science. Many suggestions of a racially distributed genetic basis for athletic ability and performance are strategically posited as a resounding critique of the `politically correct' meta-narratives of established sociological and anthropological forms of explanation that emphasize the …
Post-race/post-politics? Activist-intellectualism and the reification of race
Many recent theoretical approaches to race have questioned its salience as a critical concept due to the limitations of its reified descriptive and explanatory premises. This article argues that key social constructionist conceptualizations of race have consistently emerged alongside oppositional modes of political engagement within a context of activist-intellectualism. This conceptualization of race as a constituent of an oppositional political…
The perilous 'Pleasures of exile: C. L. R. James, Bad Faith, and the Diasporic Life
This paper discusses the impact of migration and exile on the life, political theorization and activism of C. L. R. James, challenging the archetype of the postocolonial, diasporic intellectual as inherently informing anti-essentialist discourses. I use Jean-Paul Sartre's concept of ‘bad faith’ to counter this representation, drawing a set of textually based insights into James' personal and intellectual development, tracing some of his political…
Post-race/post-politics? Activist-intellectualism and the reification of race
Many recent theoretical approaches to race have questioned its salience as a critical concept due to the limitations of its reified descriptive and explanatory premises. This article argues that key social constructionist conceptualizations of race have consistently emerged alongside oppositional modes of political engagement within a context of activist-intellectualism. This conceptualization of race as a constituent of an oppositional political…
Sport and common‐sense racial science
This paper confronts the salience of arguments that identify the racial basis of athletic ability. It is argued that these notions of racial athleticism are developed through the interaction between ideas and ways of thinking about human beings and racial groups, reflecting Gramsci's concept of ‘common sense’ that explores the complex correspondence between the presentation of fact and opinion, science and myth. The paper suggests that the mobili…
The difference sameness makes: Racial recognition and the ‘narcissism of minor differences
This article examines the form and effects of differentiation that surface within the artifice of racial sameness. Using contemporary debates between ‘native-born’ and ‘foreign-born’ blacks in the USA over the right to ‘African American’ identity and the socioeconomic threat posed to the former by the latter, I show how the operation of the logic of race internally within a racial group reiterates familiar effects of racialization. Drawing on Fre…
Sport, Genetics and the `Natural Athlete: The Resurgence of Racial Science
This article explores the ethical implications of recent discussions that naturalize the relationship between race, the body and sport within the frame of genetic science. Many suggestions of a racially distributed genetic basis for athletic ability and performance are strategically posited as a resounding critique of the `politically correct' meta-narratives of established sociological and anthropological forms of explanation that emphasize the …
Race as technology and the carceral methodologies of molecular racialization
This article counters the view (albeit contested) of race as a natural empirical object with technology as a secondary, external entity applied to it. Instead, I posit race itself as a technology that is inherently discriminatory in motivation, design and function, as evident throughout its brutally effective history. Focusing on the post/genomic era, I consider contemporary forms of molecular racialization as the latest technological iteration o…
Post-millennial local whiteness: Racialism, White Dis/Advantage and the Denial of Racism
In the tumultuous early twenty-first century, vigorous appeals to whiteness in Britain are largely attributed to populist ethno-nationalism. This article offers a complementary critical account focusing on the use of "racialism" as a purportedly non-invidious theoretical framework for describing racial differences and resultant societal impacts. Drawing on recent examples, especially the work of David Goodhart and Eric Kaufmann, I consider the de…
Living with political difference: A Mutualist Ethos for Antiracisms
Repairing the legacies of racism: Reading Radical Reparations
The Vocation of Sport Sociology
The perilous 'Pleasures of exile: C. L. R. James, Bad Faith, and the Diasporic Life
This paper discusses the impact of migration and exile on the life, political theorization and activism of C. L. R. James, challenging the archetype of the postocolonial, diasporic intellectual as inherently informing anti-essentialist discourses. I use Jean-Paul Sartre's concept of ‘bad faith’ to counter this representation, drawing a set of textually based insights into James' personal and intellectual development, tracing some of his political…
Post-race/post-politics? Activist-intellectualism and the reification of race
Many recent theoretical approaches to race have questioned its salience as a critical concept due to the limitations of its reified descriptive and explanatory premises. This article argues that key social constructionist conceptualizations of race have consistently emerged alongside oppositional modes of political engagement within a context of activist-intellectualism. This conceptualization of race as a constituent of an oppositional political…
Sport, Genetics and the `Natural Athlete: The Resurgence of Racial Science
This article explores the ethical implications of recent discussions that naturalize the relationship between race, the body and sport within the frame of genetic science. Many suggestions of a racially distributed genetic basis for athletic ability and performance are strategically posited as a resounding critique of the `politically correct' meta-narratives of established sociological and anthropological forms of explanation that emphasize the …
Sport and common‐sense racial science
This paper confronts the salience of arguments that identify the racial basis of athletic ability. It is argued that these notions of racial athleticism are developed through the interaction between ideas and ways of thinking about human beings and racial groups, reflecting Gramsci's concept of ‘common sense’ that explores the complex correspondence between the presentation of fact and opinion, science and myth. The paper suggests that the mobili…
The difference sameness makes: Racial recognition and the ‘narcissism of minor differences
This article examines the form and effects of differentiation that surface within the artifice of racial sameness. Using contemporary debates between ‘native-born’ and ‘foreign-born’ blacks in the USA over the right to ‘African American’ identity and the socioeconomic threat posed to the former by the latter, I show how the operation of the logic of race internally within a racial group reiterates familiar effects of racialization. Drawing on Fre…
Rethinking Race, Politics, and Poetics
Rethinking Race, Politics, and Poetics offers a critical appraisal of C.L.R. James as a major twentieth-century activist-intellectual, exploring his prolific output spanning decades within genres as diverse as history, philosophy, sociology, literary and cultural criticism, prose fiction, and reportage. The book also analyzes some of the flaws and contradictions that surfaced within James’ writings as a consequence of the difficult circumstances …
The Vocation of Sport Sociology
After '68: The Left and Twenty-First Century Political Projects
In broad terms '1968' still stands as a signifier of social and political radicalism. Workers' mass action and students' protests signal an age of powerful labour and politicised youth; the impassioned commitments of 'engaged intellectual' and citizen alike show a synergy between the life of the mind and activism; fierce philosophical debates illustrate the vitality of ideas; and the expansive critical vision and hope reaching throughout the soci…
On ‘The Necessity and the “Impossibility” of Identities’: The politics and ethics of ‘new ethnicities’
This article assesses Stuart Hall's work on identity and ethnicity, principally the dialectic of ‘impossibility’ and ‘necessity’ within his understanding of the formation of identities. The article outlines Hall's extensively rehearsed arguments on the ‘impossibility’ of essential identities and his description of the ‘necessity’ of identities as historical and social ‘positions’ strategically adopted by individuals as a political and psychic res…
Identities: New directions in uncertain times
Theories of Race and Ethnicity: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives
How have research agendas on race and ethnic relations changed over the past two decades and what new developments have emerged? Theories of Race and Ethnicity provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge collection of theoretically grounded and empirically informed essays. It covers a range of key issues in race and ethnicity studies, such as genetics and race, post-race debates, racial eliminativism and the legacy of Barack Obama, and mixed race i…
In memoriam: Professor Stuart McPhail Hall (1932–2014)
Post/colonial palimpsest and the place of ideas
This review explores Hall’s memoir as reflecting on the correspondence between his life and ideas and demonstrating the ways in which Hall’s vital Jamaican upbringing and Caribbean background underwrite his theoretical and political commitments. The review shows the Caribbean as central to formations of modernity and traces how Hall’s own coming to terms with his position in the world informs his critical approach that carries a series of respons…
Stuart Hall, a peerless mediator
The authors discuss Stuart Hall's lifelong critical engagement with Marxism - though his was a complex, subtle, agonistic, Marxism, where nothing is taken for granted. This engagement continued even as postcoloniality, ethnicity, race and identity steadily came to the centre of Hall's attention, constituting ways of thinking that in some ways represented a departure. Hall can be seen as a mediator, both within Marxism - for example structuralism …
Post-millennial local whiteness: Racialism, White Dis/Advantage and the Denial of Racism
In the tumultuous early twenty-first century, vigorous appeals to whiteness in Britain are largely attributed to populist ethno-nationalism. This article offers a complementary critical account focusing on the use of "racialism" as a purportedly non-invidious theoretical framework for describing racial differences and resultant societal impacts. Drawing on recent examples, especially the work of David Goodhart and Eric Kaufmann, I consider the de…
Race as technology and the carceral methodologies of molecular racialization
This article counters the view (albeit contested) of race as a natural empirical object with technology as a secondary, external entity applied to it. Instead, I posit race itself as a technology that is inherently discriminatory in motivation, design and function, as evident throughout its brutally effective history. Focusing on the post/genomic era, I consider contemporary forms of molecular racialization as the latest technological iteration o…
Race as injustice and the im/possibility of racial justice
This review essay presents exposition and analysis of Nasar Meer’s, The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice. I outline Meer’s argument detailing the historical emergence and ongoing social reproduction of racial injustice in relation to nation formation, endemic racism, health inequalities, restrictions on refugees and asylum, and White supremacism as pervasive throughout western societies. I suggest that Meer’s intervention usefully highlights raci…
Living with political difference: A Mutualist Ethos for Antiracisms
Repairing the legacies of racism: Reading Radical Reparations
Civil ordering, antiracism and the dilemmatic promise of racial eliminativism
This article theorises racial eliminativism and civil ordering operating in combination as ongoing processes to eradicate race and counteract racism. Racial eliminativism and civil ordering are initially explicated as complementary ideational and institutional provisions. The paper then develops this interchange between racial eliminativism and civil order in three sections. Section 1 assesses the salience of legal definitions of race and its sta…
The end of Bame’? Neoliberal post-multiculturalism, racism denial and the state
‘BAME’ has been used in the UK since the 1990s to denote ‘Black, Asian and minority ethnic’ people. The combination of varied ethnic groups within BAME as a single collective category has proven controversial. This article focuses on the UK state critique of BAME and governmental decision to disuse the acronym announced in 2022. Methodologically, the article uses purposive sampling of key governmental, public sector and civil society sources. The…
Sociology (16 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Racism (7 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (5 works)