Racism: A Very Short Introduction

Racism: A Very Short Introduction

Ali Rattansi

Language: English

Pages: 208

ISBN: 0192805908

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


From subtle discrimination in everyday life, to horrors like lynching in the Old South, cultural imperialism, and "ethnic cleansing", racism exists in many different forms, in almost every facet of society. Despite civil rights movements and other attempts at progress, racial prejudices and stereotypes remain deeply embedded in Western culture. Racism takes a frank and objective look at why these notions exist. It explores how racism has come to be so firmly established, and looks at how race, ethnicity, and xenophobia are related. This book 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 also explores 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. As encompassing as it is concise, Racism is a valuable guide to one of the world's most destructive problems.

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confidently announces: of black servants, wrote to the lord mayors of the country’s main cities ‘that there are of late divers blackamores brought into this realm, of which kind of people there are already here to manie . . . those kinds of people should be sente forth of the land’. Racism Elizabeth’s attempted expulsion of blacks was singularly unsuccessful. By the middle of the 18th century, there were perhaps some 20,000 black people living in Scotland and England, including a

to conventional right-wing parties than to the Nazis. semi-feudal arrangements, whilst allowing a simultaneous appeal to anti-capitalist forces within labour movements. On the other hand, support from other German upper and middle classes was obtained by highlighting supposedly disproportionate Jewish involvement in left-wing movements in Europe and the Russian Revolution of 1918. The image of the ‘Judaeo-Bolshevik’ became an important part of Nazi political ideology. Racism Add the

idea of separate races. Thalassaemia, often regarded as being most common in those from the Indian subcontinent, is known to occur with great frequency in some Mediterranean regions and South East Asia as well. Sickle cell anaemia is often thought to be an ‘African’ or ‘black’ affliction. But research points to a correlation not with ‘race’, however defined, but the presence of malaria in an environment. Populations with sickle cell disease appear to have been more likely to survive malaria

we must pay close attention to the ways in which the notion of race, and its associations with skin colour, facial features, and other aspects of physiognomy, has been intertwined, amongst other things, with issues of class, masculinity and femininity, sexuality, religion, mental illness, and the idea of the nation. And, crucially, with the development of science. 12 Chapter 2 Fear of the dark?: blacks, Jews, and barbarians By the time Marr penned his diatribe against the Jews in the 1870s,

America (Harper and Row, 1984) Chapter 4 D. Cannadine, Ornamentalism (Allen Lane, 2001) W. Dalrymple, White Moghuls (Harper Collins, 2002) D. Goldhagen, Hitler’s Willing Executioners (Little, Brown, 1996) E. Katz, Confronting Evil (State University of New York Press, 2004) A. Nandy, Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism (Oxford University Press, 1983) E. Said, Orientalism (Routledge, 1978) Chapter 5 Hernstein and Murray, The Bell Curve (Free Press, 1994) 175 Racism

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