Description:
This book focuses on the conceptual, historical, and material maintenance of "race" and race thinking, with a particular focus on racial trauma as a system of violence enacted on marginalised identities by systemic, narcissistic structures of white supremacy.
Brief description:
Harshad Keval is a writer and activist scholar, with special interests in race-critical and decolonial social theory, theories of coloniality and racism, antiracism, social justice and institutional power and resistance. His work journey has involved exploring medical anthropology, medical sociology, mental health, cultural epidemiology and international health, across European and global sites. He has worked as a shop assistant, textile factory worker, labourer, bar tender, data analyst, lecturer, and consultant to organisations aiming at racial justice in education. More recently he has written on race and genetics, race-based trauma and epistemologies of whiteness and institutional ignorance. He works across and beyond disciplinary boundaries and seeks to connect with spaces and voices of creativity and liberation that often lie beyond the epistemic and physical walls of traditional Euro-modern systems of knowledge and practice. He remains resolutely an outsider on the inside of academia.
Review Quotes: This book is an astute, evocative and powerful rendition of whiteness and how white narcissistic structures, as a novel analytic and as an embodiment through consistent self-aggrandizement and its machinery, are omnipresent. To not mull over, pause and reflect on what Harshad has written, does not do his experience, labour and expertise, and what those racialised within whiteness endure as a collective, justice.
How and why those from the Global Majority assimilate into these white narcissistic structures matter;
Understanding ways in which we gatekeep matter; Understanding how white supremacist structures
continue to maintain the violence and power hierarchies via higher education and education systems
all around, matter.... so that actual disruption is possible outwith and within other performative
machineries that many don to ′decolonise within colonialism′...which is IMPOSSIBLE.
Thank you, Harshad, for your labour, and for actually visibilising the systemically invisibilised.--Pavithra Sarma (11/18/2025 12:00:00 AM)