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。它现在被称为近年来欧洲极右翼活动家最大的集会之一。参加者举着阅读横幅，上面写着“兄弟国家的白色欧洲”和“让我们为伊斯兰大屠杀祈祷”，同时高喊“纯洁的波兰！白色波兰！”和“难民出去！".然而，只有0.3%的国家机构由外国人组成。极右翼激进主义的兴起对他们意味着什么？我的项目集中在波兰的黑人少数民族和他们的经验，不断变化的政治，经济和社会结构的波兰在当代的时刻。我将特别密切关注冷战期间在华沙建立的、至今仍然存在的黑人散居网络，但也将研究最近来到波兰谋生的非洲移民的经历。我将利用参与者观察，口述历史和照片启发与我的参与者产生的研究，旨在进一步我们对20世纪世纪的未研究的非洲侨民的理解，以及我们对波兰的理解。跟随波兰的黑人侨民网络，将使我了解在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.