Meanings
plural neo-racisms
- alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of neoracism.
The plurality of neo-racisms is problematized as well in shifting the discourse of blame from individuals and attitudes to society and structures.
2014, Augie Fleras, Racisms in a Multicultural Canada: Paradoxes, Politics, and Resistance, →ISBN5 more examples
To confuse neo-racism with earlier forms of racism is, according to Taguieff, a theoretical error that both inhibits our ability to understand contemporary racism and has serious consequences for struggles against racism.
2003, Roxanne Lynn Doty, Anti-Immigrantism in Western Democracies, →ISBNTheir premise was that, in addition to other factors such as tightening visa restrictions and increased competition from other countries, an explanation for the decrease in numbers could relate to an increase in neo-racism and rejection by the home student population and the wider community.
2010, Catherine Montgomery, Understanding the International Student Experience, →ISBNNeo-racism is grounded not in biology but in anthropology and ideology. In some circles in Europe, for example, some people invoke the distinctions in religious custom, language, or value system specific to immigrants of African, Middle Eastern, or Asian origin to justify keeping those immigrant communities emotionally, if no physically, separate.
2014, Vamik Volkan, Blind Trust, →ISBNAs these assaults gained in political strength and visibility, public discourses revealed unimagined reversals of civil rights “truths,” premised on the logics of neo-liberalism, and denying their role in neo-racisms of the nineties.
2009, Daniel Scroop, Consuming Visions, →ISBNIn Chapter 3, I explain how territorial racism complements Etienne Balibar's theory of cultural racism, but with one notable qualification: I don't treat anti-immigrant racism as a neo-racism that crystallized in the late 20th century.
2013, Philip Kretsedemas, Migrants and Race in the US: Territorial Racism and the Alien/Outside, →ISBN
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