Black Slavs: Poland's African diasporic community and the rise of post-communist right-wing nationalism

去年11月，大约6万人聚集在华沙街头，参加一年一度的独立日游行。这是近年来欧洲最大的极右翼活动人士集会之一。参与者举着写有“兄弟国家的白色欧洲”和“让我们为伊斯兰大屠杀祈祷”的横幅，同时高喊“纯粹的波兰！”白色的波兰!”和“难民出去！”然而，只有0.3%的国家机构是由外国人组成的。极右翼激进主义的兴起对他们意味着什么？我的项目主要关注波兰的黑人少数民族，以及他们在当代波兰不断变化的政治、经济和社会结构中的经历。我将特别关注华沙的黑人流散网络，这些网络建立于冷战时期，至今仍然存在，但我也将关注最近来到波兰谋生的非洲移民的经历。我将利用参与者的观察，口述历史和与我的参与者的照片引出来进行研究，旨在进一步了解20世纪未被研究的非洲侨民以及我们对波兰的了解。跟随波兰黑人侨民的网络将使我能够理解在一个日益敌对的民族主义环境中，非洲侨民社区内复杂的、种族化的历史。

Around 60,000 people gathered on the streets of Warsaw last November, for what was meant to be the annual Independence Day march. It is now known as one of the largest gatherings of far-right activists in recent years in Europe. Participants carried banners reading "White Europe of Brotherly nations" and "Let's pray for an Islamic Holocaust" whilst shouting slogans such as "Pure Poland! White Poland!" _and "Refugees Out!". Yet only 0.3% of the national body is made up of foreigners. What does the rise of far-right activism mean for them? My project focuses on the black minorities in Poland and their experience of the changing political, economic, and social fabric of Poland in the contemporary moment. I will pay particularly close attention to the black diasporic networks in Warsaw that were established during the Cold War period and remain in existence today but will also look at the experiences of African migrants who have come more recently to Poland to make their lives. I will utilise participant observation, oral history and photo-elicitation with my participants to produce research that seeks to further our understanding of an unstudied African diaspora of the 20th century as well as our understanding of Poland. Following the networks of the black diaspora in Poland will allow me to understand the complex, racialized histories within an African diasporic community set in an increasingly hostile nationalist environment.