Abstract
Complicities and complexities in racialization simultaneously create possibilities and foreclose opportunities for cross-racial solidarities. In this auto-ethnographic paper, we share our learning and theorizing of Brown-Black solidarities since we filmed a webinar titled, “Brown Complicity in White Supremacy: Towards Solidarity for Black Lives” (SultyDee, 2020), one of several efforts towards Brown (South Asian)-Black solidarities in North America. We begin by situating ourselves in this conversation by troubling conceptions of “Brown” that flatten power asymmetries within the diaspora. We then theorize the inevitable complexities and complicities of the relational racialization of Brownness from anti-racist and anti-colonial framings and explore conceptions of Brown-Black solidarities. Finally, we draw on webinar feedback and our ongoing work in education and in communities in the Greater Toronto Area to offer a framework for strengthening Brown anti-racist orientations towards Brown-Black solidarities. This framework intends to examine intersections between white supremacy, anti-Black racism, caste oppression, and settler colonialism in a white settler state.
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