White Supremacy Racism and the Coloniality of Anti-Trafficking

<p>Global efforts to combat human trafficking are ubiquitous and reference particular ideas about unfreedoms suffering and rescue. The discourse has however a distinct racialized legacy that is lodged specifically in fears about white slavery women in prostitution and migration and the defilement of white womanhood by the criminal and racialized Other. <i>White Supremacy Racism and the Coloniality of Anti-Trafficking </i>centers the legacies of race and racism in contemporary anti-trafficking work and examines them in greater detail.<br><br>A number of recent arguments have suggested that race and racism are not only visible but vital to the success of contemporary anti- trafficking discourses and movements. The contributors offer recent scholarship grounded in critical anti- racist perspectives that reveal the historical and contemporary racial working of anti- trafficking discourses and practices globally—and how these intersect with gender citizenship sexuality caste and class formations and the global political economy.</p>