SAR Book Talk: Encountering Race in Albania

What does Albania reveal about the global story of race?

Join Chelsi West Ohueri and anthropologist Carole McGranahan for a virtual book talk that will offer a thought-provoking conversation challenging assumptions, expanding frameworks, and inviting us to rethink how racialization shapes belonging, identity, and power worldwide.

In her recently published book, Encountering Race in Albania, anthropologist West Ohueri uncovers how whiteness, blackness, and otherness are made and remade in a place often overlooked in conversations on race. Drawing from more than a decade of fieldwork, she shows how the “afterlife of communism” illuminates racial logics far beyond Eastern Europe.