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Dr. Noa K. Ha is a researcher at DeZIM Institute specializing in racism research, anti-racism studies, and the historical connections between colonialism and contemporary racism in Germany. She actively contributes to academic debates on racism research methodology and practice.
Her research focuses on understanding racism as a comprehensive social practice rather than merely an ideology, examining how racialization processes operate across cultural, artistic, private, and public spheres. Dr. Ha emphasizes the need to shift from retrospective analysis of racism to developing proactive anti-racist practices that connect past, present, and future. She argues for centering the analysis on racialization processes rather than the concept of 'race' itself, highlighting how power structures and hierarchization function within societal contexts.
Dr. Ha's work critically examines the historical role of European research practices in developing and legitimizing racism, including anthropological measurements, museum collections, and colonial-era scientific practices. She connects racism research with migration studies, museum studies, and critical examinations of European epistemic foundations, arguing for strengthening academic structures for racism research and developing evidence-based approaches to transform institutional practices toward a pluralistic society.
Her scholarship addresses the urgent need for more comprehensive understanding of racism's societal structures beyond individual prejudices, highlighting how racist practices determine life outcomes and create zones of being versus non-being as described by Frantz Fanon. She advocates for democratizing access to history, housing, work, education, and national belonging through anti-racist practices.
