Media and Education

Paul Thomas holds a PhD in Education from King’s College, London. He is Professor of Pedagogy at the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN), specializing in critical pedagogy and diversity in education. He has published extensively on addressing racism in classrooms and he is the lead author of the forthcoming book Education and Cultural Evolution in Norway’s Multiethnic Society: Bridges to Belonging (Springer, 2025).Abdul-Razak Kuyini Alhassan is Professor of Pedagogy at the University of South-Eastern Norway specializing in inclusion education and child welfare. His research focuses on educational inclusion for disadvantaged children. He has extensive teaching experience and co-leads the Minorities and Education research group.Jocelyne Muhayimana von Hof is Assistant Professor of Pedagogy at the University of South-Eastern Norway and specializes in studying the practices of educators in multilingual settings, ensuring the inclusion of minority language-speaking children. Her research highlights the importance of educators valuing language proficiency to create supportive learning environments. Von Hof’s work emphasizes inclusive practices that prioritize cultural identity and linguistic diversity.

• Introduction1 Slavery, Reparations and Black Lives Matter1 Unspoken Histories: Norway’s Silent Slave Trade Legacy2 Media Research and Analysis of Content3 Encoding, Decoding and White Misrecognition4 A Counter-story of a Forgotten Life5 Implications for Education2 Norway’s 1914 “Human Zoo”1 Introduction2 White Gaze, Black Confinement3 “Look, a Negro” in 1914 Oslo: Fanon’s Introspection4 Fanon’s Paradox in “Look, a Negro!”5 “Benign”, “Well-Intentioned” Liberal Racism6 Implications for Education3 Eugene Obiora: Black Body, Broken Justice1 “Breaking the Negro”: From Plantations to Police Brutality2 “Re-Embodying”: Rap as the Weapon of the Dispossessed3 Olaf the Holy and Eugene Obiora: A Tale of Two Corpses4 Beyond the Hues: The Mirage of Colorblindness5 The Banality of Racism6 From Cannibal Imagery to Muhammad Cartoons7 Implications for Education4 The Rise and Fall of “Neger” in Norway’s Racial Dialogue1 Introduction2 Navigating “Neger”: Three Paradigms3 Negro in 1970s Norwegian Media: A Semantic Analysis4 Negro Music and Miscegenation Fears in the 1980s5 Neger in the 1990s – “Santa Claus: the Western Deity in White”6 What Can Schools and Higher Education Do?5 The Ali Farah Case: Blame Game and Reverse Racism1 Park Assault and Paramedic Neglect2 Racial Profiling in Medical Response3 The White Architecture of the Mind4 Black Body, White Identity Papers5 White Habitus across Borders6 The Empire [Farah] Writes Back7 Implications for Education: Paolo Freire and the Act of ReadingConclusion: Salvaging the FredensborgReferencesIndex