Tamari Kitossa
Biographic Data
| ID | 136493 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tamari Kitossa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tamari |
| FAMILY NAME | Kitossa |
| SIGNATURE | KITOSSA T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brock University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Re-thinking the decolonisation of knowledge and dismantling of intellectual imperialism: Focusing on Epistemic and Social Justice
This introduction discusses the articles in our special issue ‘Decolonising Epistemology’, and derives from them several recommendations for decolonisation: (1) Current decolonisation efforts are mainly led by privileged scholars, when they should be spearheaded by oppressed scholars. Scholars holding privilege should focus on supporting roles. (2) Decolonisation should put dismantling the global power structures erected by colonialism front and …
Appealing Because He Is Appalling: Black Masculinities, Colonialism, and Erotic Racism
This collection invites us to think about how African-descended men are seen as both appealing and appalling, and exposed to eroticized hatred and violence and how some resist, accommodate, and capitalize on their eroticization. Drawing on James Baldwin and Frantz Fanon, the contributors examine the contradictions, paradoxes, and politico-psychosexual implications of Black men as objects of sexual desire, fear, and loathing. Kitossa and the contr…
Criminology as Epistemic Necropolitics
I argue in this essay that from 1492 to the present, the Global North has used theories of “crime,” its causation and control, as part of a three-pronged epistemic necropolitical attack on the Global South. I suggest that the emergence of critical criminology and its more recent offshoots, given their dependence on the present or hypothetical war making and coercive state, are themselves a part of the problem. I suggest criminology is a Trojan Ho…
Introduction to Special Issue: Whiteness in the Age of White Rage
This Special Issue—“Whiteness in the Age of White Rage”—names and interrogates what is implicit in anti-racist, Indigenous, and whiteness studies: white rage. Drawing on Carol Anderson’s White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (2017), we invited scholars to explore empirical and theoretical inquiry of how rage is a defining characteristic of settler colonialism, whiteness, and white supremacy in Canada. In this Introduction we elabora…
Authoritarian Criminology and Racist Statecraft: Rationalizations for Racial Profiling, Carding and Legibilizing the Herd
This essay is a discrete survey of administrative-authoritarian criminologists’ neutralizing techniques for justifying and aiding and abetting racial profiling in policing and, by inference, racialized ‘carding’. Principally focused on Canada and the US, material for this survey arises from the effort of administrative-authoritarian criminologists who claim to refute commissioned reports, case law and obiter dicta, government reports and scholarl…
African Canadian Leadership: Continuity, Transition, and Transformation
Beyond Celebration: A Critical Sociological Inquiry of Interracial Union Research in Canada
Research in Canada has latched onto the explanation that the growth in interracial unions is both cause and consequence of progressive social change. The authors cast a skeptical eye on this regime of truth produced by positivistic statistical procedure and the speculative theory of social change as it connects to the state brand of tolerance. They offer a meta-theoretical critique that challenges the taken-for-granted assumption that the growth …
Beyond Black and White: When Going Beyond May Take Us Out of Bounds
This article examines a selection of the North American scholarly research that calls for “moving beyond” a “Black/White binary paradigm.” Some scholars suggest this paradigm limits or obscures a complex understanding of the historical record on race, racism, and racialization for Asian, Latina/o, Mexican, and Native Americans. On the face of it, the notion of a Black/White binary paradigm and the call to move beyond appears persuasive. The disco…
Authoritarian Criminology and Racist Statecraft: Rationalizations for Racial Profiling, Carding and Legibilizing the Herd
This essay is a discrete survey of administrative-authoritarian criminologists’ neutralizing techniques for justifying and aiding and abetting racial profiling in policing and, by inference, racialized ‘carding’. Principally focused on Canada and the US, material for this survey arises from the effort of administrative-authoritarian criminologists who claim to refute commissioned reports, case law and obiter dicta, government reports and scholarl…
Beyond Black and White: When Going Beyond May Take Us Out of Bounds
This article examines a selection of the North American scholarly research that calls for “moving beyond” a “Black/White binary paradigm.” Some scholars suggest this paradigm limits or obscures a complex understanding of the historical record on race, racism, and racialization for Asian, Latina/o, Mexican, and Native Americans. On the face of it, the notion of a Black/White binary paradigm and the call to move beyond appears persuasive. The disco…
Beyond Celebration: A Critical Sociological Inquiry of Interracial Union Research in Canada
Research in Canada has latched onto the explanation that the growth in interracial unions is both cause and consequence of progressive social change. The authors cast a skeptical eye on this regime of truth produced by positivistic statistical procedure and the speculative theory of social change as it connects to the state brand of tolerance. They offer a meta-theoretical critique that challenges the taken-for-granted assumption that the growth …
African Canadian Leadership: Continuity, Transition, and Transformation
Criminology as Epistemic Necropolitics
I argue in this essay that from 1492 to the present, the Global North has used theories of “crime,” its causation and control, as part of a three-pronged epistemic necropolitical attack on the Global South. I suggest that the emergence of critical criminology and its more recent offshoots, given their dependence on the present or hypothetical war making and coercive state, are themselves a part of the problem. I suggest criminology is a Trojan Ho…
Introduction to Special Issue: Whiteness in the Age of White Rage
This Special Issue—“Whiteness in the Age of White Rage”—names and interrogates what is implicit in anti-racist, Indigenous, and whiteness studies: white rage. Drawing on Carol Anderson’s White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (2017), we invited scholars to explore empirical and theoretical inquiry of how rage is a defining characteristic of settler colonialism, whiteness, and white supremacy in Canada. In this Introduction we elabora…
Authoritarian Criminology and Racist Statecraft: Rationalizations for Racial Profiling, Carding and Legibilizing the Herd
This essay is a discrete survey of administrative-authoritarian criminologists’ neutralizing techniques for justifying and aiding and abetting racial profiling in policing and, by inference, racialized ‘carding’. Principally focused on Canada and the US, material for this survey arises from the effort of administrative-authoritarian criminologists who claim to refute commissioned reports, case law and obiter dicta, government reports and scholarl…
Appealing Because He Is Appalling: Black Masculinities, Colonialism, and Erotic Racism
This collection invites us to think about how African-descended men are seen as both appealing and appalling, and exposed to eroticized hatred and violence and how some resist, accommodate, and capitalize on their eroticization. Drawing on James Baldwin and Frantz Fanon, the contributors examine the contradictions, paradoxes, and politico-psychosexual implications of Black men as objects of sexual desire, fear, and loathing. Kitossa and the contr…
Re-thinking the decolonisation of knowledge and dismantling of intellectual imperialism: Focusing on Epistemic and Social Justice
This introduction discusses the articles in our special issue ‘Decolonising Epistemology’, and derives from them several recommendations for decolonisation: (1) Current decolonisation efforts are mainly led by privileged scholars, when they should be spearheaded by oppressed scholars. Scholars holding privilege should focus on supporting roles. (2) Decolonisation should put dismantling the global power structures erected by colonialism front and …
Sociology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · Racism (3 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (2 works) · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works)