Join Dr Marcel Stoetzler Senior Lecturer in Sociology for this FREE online Taster Session.
We all think we know what racism is until someone asks. Then it is far from clear, suddenly: one might spontaneously say that racism is somehow directed against ‘races’, but on reflection, most people agree that human ‘races’ don’t exist. Except, some would reply, that racists create with the idea of ‘races’ also, if they have the power to do so, some reality. Really? But how? How does the ‘formation’ of races, or the ‘racialization’ of certain groups of people, work? And which groups get ‘racialized’, that is, turned into and treated as ‘races’? Just anyone? Many people would say that racism targets the poor and exploited, the colonized, migrants, and refugees, maybe to ‘divide the working class’. This is true of many forms of racism. But then, there are also forms of racism that are directed at rich and powerful people. Does that make it OK? And then, there are also forms of racism that only imagine their victims to be rich and powerful (such as antisemitism, which is racism against Jews). So, what would be a good way of defining racism that covers all of this? Is there one?
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