Title: Discussion of the article "White ignorance, race and feminist politics in Sweden", published in Ethnic and racial studies 2020, VOL. 43, NO 16, 226-249.

Discussant: Andrea Voyer

Abstract

This article discusses the Swedish government’s policy document on a feminist policy to reduce and prevent men’s violence against women. According to the article, this document is permeated by racial ignorance and politics of difference and systematically and consistently excludes and ignores racial and ethnic power structures and their consequences in migrant minorities’ daily lives and experience. The article raises questions about why some knowledge is silenced or abandoned while some is embraced and encouraged. Within a wider intersectional framework, and through critical race theory and ignorance studies, it investigates the knowledge produced in the government document and the way it reproduces, maintains, and normalizes racial otherness and social exclusion.

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