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Prof. Marzia Milazzo

Associate Professor
Name: Marzia Milazzo
Location: B Ring 722A Auckland Park Kingsway Campus
Department of English Staff听 Staff Members

Contact Details:
Tel: +27 (0) 11 559 2768

Email:听marziam@uj.ac.za

About Prof. Marzia Milazzo

Qualifications

MA, English & Spanish (Albert-Ludwigs-Universit盲t Freiburg)

PhD, Comparative Literature (欧美福利100000 of California, Santa Barbara)

Teaching and Research Interests

Marzia Milazzo is Associate Professor of English at the 欧美福利100000 of Johannesburg. Her research is broadly concerned with the relationship between the poetics and politics of both racist and antiracist discourses. Her research and teaching areas, in no particular order, include twentieth and twenty-first century African American, Afro-Latin American, Chicanx/Latinx, Inter-American, and South African literatures; Black radical thought, Critical Race Theory (CRT), and the history and sociology of racism. Prior to joining UJ, Milazzo was Assistant Professor of English at Vanderbilt 欧美福利100000, USA, and an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Rhodes 欧美福利100000, Makhanda.

Milazzo鈥檚 first book, Colorblind Tools: Global Technologies of Racial Power (Northwestern UP, Critical Insurgencies series, 2022), offers听a transnational account of听anti鈥態lackness and听white supremacy听that pushes against听the dominant emphasis on historical听change that pervades current racial theory. Bringing together听a听capacious archive of听texts听on race produced in听Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, Panama, the United States, and South Africa from across multiple disciplines and genres, Milazzo uncovers transnational continuities in structural racism and white supremacist discourse from the inception of colonial modernity to the present. In the process, she traces the global workings of what she calls colorblind tools: technologies and strategies that at once camouflage and reproduce white domination. Milazzo鈥檚 study proves that colorblindness is not new, nor is it a subtype of racist ideology or a hallmark of our era. It is a constitutive technology of racism鈥攁 tool the master cannot do without.

You can read more about Colorblind Tools here:

Currently, Milazzo is working on a book-length study on contemporary South African literature, tentatively titled Darkening Rainbow: Post-Apartheid Writing and the Politics of Race. 听

Selected Publications

Books

Colorblind Tools: Global Technologies of Racial Power. Evanston, IL: Northwestern 欧美福利100000

Press, 2022.

Peer-reviewed articles in journals

You can read Milazzo鈥檚 articles and book reviews here:

鈥淭he Ruse of Impurity: Paul Gilroy鈥檚 The Black Atlantic and the Politics of Hybridity鈥� (forthcoming 2023).

鈥淢ark Mathabane鈥檚 K*ffir Boy, Black Consciousness, and the Fallacies of Liberalism.鈥� ARIEL, vol. 52, no. 3-4, 2021, p. 29-62.

鈥溾�楾o Grasp the Gaping Grave鈥�: Blackness, Death, and the Afterlife of Slavery in Unathi Slasha鈥檚 Jah Hills.鈥� Current Writing, vol. 32, no. 2, 2020, p. 134-144.

鈥淪peaking for the Refugee Other: Missioneering, White Saviourism, and the Politics of Ethnographic Representation in Luis Alberto Urrea鈥檚 Across the Wire.鈥� Scrutiny2, vol. 24, no. 1, 2019, pp. 58-72.

鈥淥n White Ignorance, White Shame, and Other Pitfalls in Critical Philosophy of Race.鈥� Journal of Applied Philosophy, vol. 34, no. 4, August 2017, pp. 557-572.

鈥淩econciling Racial Revelations in Post-Apartheid South African Literature.鈥� Research in African Literatures, vol. 47, no. 1, Spring 2016, pp. 128-148.

鈥淭he Rhetorics of Racial Power: Enforcing Colorblindness in Post-Apartheid Scholarship on Race.鈥� Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, vol. 8, no. 1, February 2015, pp. 7-26. *Kimberl茅 Crenshaw Outstanding Article Award Honorable Mention

Read it here (open access):

鈥淲hite Supremacy, White Knowledge, and Anti-West Indian Discourse in Panama: Olmedo Alfaro鈥檚 El peligro antillano en la Am茅rica Central.鈥� The Global South, vol. 6, no. 2, Fall 2013, pp. 65-86.

鈥淩acial Power and Colorblindness: The 鈥楽ad Black Stories鈥� of Kgebetli Moele鈥檚 Room 207 and Twenty-First Century Black South African Fiction.鈥� Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, Spring 2013, pp. 33-59.

鈥淏谤补锄颈濒鈥檚 惭别蝉迟颈莽补驳别尘 in the African American Imagination: From the 鈥楴adir of the Negro鈥� to Gayl Jones鈥檚 Corregidora.鈥� Tinta: Research Journal of Hispanic and Lusophone Studies, vol. 10, Spring 2010, pp. 37-46. (Journal no longer active).

Peer-reviewed book chapters

鈥溾�楾o Go into America as I Go into Myself:鈥� Chicanx Indigenism, the Indigenous Other, and the Ethnographic Gaze in Juan Felipe Herrera鈥檚 Mayan Drifter鈥� (forthcoming 2023).

鈥溾�楾he Whims of the White Masters鈥�: Miriam Tlali鈥檚 Between Two Worlds and the Totality of White Power.鈥� African Philosophical and Literary Possibilities: Re-reading the Canon, edited by Aretha Phiri. Lexington Books, 2020, pp. 131-148.

鈥淥n the Transportability, Malleability, and Longevity of Colorblindness: Reproducing White Supremacy in Brazil and South Africa.鈥� Seeing Race Again: Countering Colorblindness Across the Disciplines, edited by Kimberl茅 Crenshaw, Luke Harris, Daniel HoSang, and George Lipsitz. 欧美福利100000 of California Press, 2019, pp. 105-127.

鈥淭he Rhetorics of Racial Power: Enforcing Colorblindness in Post-Apartheid Scholarship on Race.鈥� Race(ing) Intercultural Communication: Racial Logics in a Colorblind Era, edited by Dreama G. Moon and Michelle A. Holling. Routledge, 2015. [Reprint]

Book reviews

鈥淐apturing Dambudzo Marechera: A Review of Flora Veit-Wild Memoir.鈥� Mail & Guardian, vol. 37, no. 16, 23-29 April 2021, p. 38. Read it here:

Conspicuous Consumption in Africa by Deborah Posel and Ilana van Wyk. Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 44, no. 8, 2021, pp. 1445-1447. Read it here (open access):

A Survey of South African Crime Fiction: Critical Analysis and Publishing History by Sam Naidu and Elizabeth le Roux. Research in African Literatures, vol. 50, no. 2, Summer 2019, pp. 259-261.

Mestizaje and Globalization: Transformations of Identity and Power by Stefanie Wickstrom and Philip Young, eds. American Indian Quarterly, vol. 40, no. 4, Fall 2016, pp. 379-381.

The Pan American Imagination: Contested Visions of the Hemisphere in Twentieth-Century Literature by Stephen Park. Journal of American History, vol. 102, no. 4, March 2016, pp. 1231.

Walls of Empowerment: Chicana/o Indigenist Murals of California by Guisela Latorre. Aztl谩n, vol. 36, no. 1, Spring 2011, pp. 241-244.

Chicana Art: The Politics of Spiritual and Aesthetic Altarities by Laura E. P茅rez. Ethnic and Third World Review of Books, vol. 8, Spring 2008.

Mayan Drifter: Chicano Poet in the Lowlands of America by Juan Felipe Herrera. Ethnic and Third World Review of Books, vol. 7, Spring 2007.

Estado y contemplaci贸n by Giancarlo Huapaya. Pel铆cano, vol. 2, Nov. 2005, pp. 68-69. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzald煤a. Ethnic and Third World Review of Books, vol. 5, Spring 2005.