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Racism
Racism exists in many different forms, in almost every facet of society. This Very Short Introduction demystifies the subject and explores its history, science, and culture. Shedding light on how racism has evolved since its earliest beginnings, and examining the notion of race from a modern genetic viewpoint, Ali Rattansi considers the numerous embodiments of racism - from ethnic cleansing and cultural imperialism to discrimination in politics and everyday life. - ;From subtle discrimination in everyday life and scandals in politics, to incidents like lynchings in the American South, cultural imperialism, and 'ethnic cleansing', racism exists in many different forms, in almost every facet of society. But what actually is race? How has racism come to be so firmly established? Why do so few people actually admit to being racist? How are race, ethnicity, and xenophobia related?. Racism: A Very Short Introduction incorporates the latest research to demystify the subject of racism and explore its history, science, and culture. It sheds light not only on how racism has evolved since its earliest beginnings, but will also explore the numerous embodiments of racism, highlighting the paradox of its survival, despite the scientific discrediting of the notion of 'race' with the latest advances in genetics. -.
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Dialogues on Difference
The following essays are reviewed: \"Conceiving Cosmopolitanism: Theory, Context and Practice\" edited by S. Vertovec and R. Cohen; \"Recognition and Difference: Politics, Identity and Multiculture\" edited by S. Lash and M. Featherstone; Engaging Cultural Differences: The Multicultural Challenge in Liberal Democracies\" edited by R. Shweder, M. Minow and H. Markus; and \"Toward Assimilation and Citizenship: Immigrants in Liberal Nation-States\" edited by C. Joppke and E. Morawska.
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FORGET POSTMODERNISM? NOTES FROM DE BUNKER
A review essay on books by: Scott Lash & John Urry, Economies of Signs and Space (London/Thousand Oaks, CA/New Delhi, India: Sage, 1994); Chris Rojek & Bryan Turner (Eds), Forget Baudrillard? (London & New York: Routledge, 1993); & Keith Tester, The Life and Times of Post-Modernity (London & New York: Routledge, 1993 [see listings in IRPS No. 82]). These works include concerns & challenges to postmodernist thought. Lash & Urry detail their conception of a sociology of flows & reflexivity, examine the nature of contemporary disorganized & aestheticized captitalism & its relation to postmoderism, & explore the relation between signs & space. Rojek's & Turner's collection of essays evaluates the contribution of Jean Baudrillard to social science & postmodernist thought. Tester specifies several postmodernist themes, including identity & nostalgia; however, his arguments are characterized as pretentious & unoriginal. 38 References. S. Davies
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Racist identities: ambivalence, contradiction, and commitment
People are often accused of using racialized language but this is not the same as being called a racist. What constitutes an identity? An individual or group identity is only partly a matter of self-identification. Identities are also assigned by others. They imply and rely on the recognition of differences. ‘Racist identities: ambivalence, contradiction, and commitment’ questions the ambivalence of racialized language, the factors that create an identity, and the contradictions involved in anti-racists claims that prejudice is a product of ignorance and irrationality. Having a possibly unfavourable view of ‘outsiders’ does not constitute racism, which involves specific beliefs about the existence of race and the possibility of a hierarchical order.
Book Chapter
New racisms?
Few people now admit to racist feelings. But even those that might have problems agreeing on how many races there are and how they are to be differentiated from each other. If this difficulty is real, why do so many in the social sciences, media, and political realms claim that racism is still prevalent in the contemporary world? ‘New racisms?’ looks at this interesting paradox where racial discrimination is regarded as widespread but race has no scientific basis. There has been considerable debate since the 1980s about the changing relationship between earlier, overt racism and the emergence of a more covert racism which focuses on questions of culture, religion, and ethnicity.
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