Whilst scholarship has sought to consider migration in Poland, there has been a lack of engagement with the ways in which race and racism interact with migration. In this article, I map the figures in the Polish imaginary of European, and examine whether Poland has different, if related, histories of racial thinking. I ask how such histories have been conceived, shaped and mediated. To examine this, I focus on the lived experiences of sub-Saharan African immigrants and children of immigrants (Black/mixed-race) who are often portrayed as non-Europeans and seen by some as ‘not quite Polish’. In doing so, this article provides an insight into the racial contours of Polish self-conception. I call this logic ‘Polish-centrism’ – a focus on some aspects of Polish culture to the exclusion of a wider view of the world. It is within this logic that I examine what it means to be Black and Polish in Poland.

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波兰的种族和种族主义：“波兰中心主义”的理论化和语境化

虽然学术研究试图考虑波兰的移民，但缺乏对种族和种族主义与移民相互作用的方式的参与。在这篇文章中，我绘制了波兰人想象中的欧洲人的形象，并考察了波兰是否有不同的（如果相关的话）种族思想历史。我问这些历史是如何构思、塑造和调节的。为了检验这一点，我将重点放在撒哈拉以南非洲移民和移民子女（黑人/混血儿）的生活经历上，他们经常被描绘成非欧洲人，并被一些人视为“不太波兰人”。在此过程中，本文提供了对波兰人自我概念的种族轮廓的洞察。我称这种逻辑为“波兰中心主义”——关注波兰文化的某些方面，排除更广阔的世界观。