Race and Racism - Defining Race, Dilemmas Of Meaning: The Concept Of Race, Defining Racism, Dilemmas Of Meaning: The Concept Of Racism

Race and Racism - Defining Race

Race can be understood as a concept that signifies and symbolizes sociopolitical conflicts and interests in reference to different types of human bodies. Although the concept of race appeals to biologically based human characteristics (so-called phenotypes), selection of these particular human features for purposes of racial signification is always and necessarily a social and historical process. …

Race and Racism - Dilemmas Of Meaning: The Concept Of Race

Few ideas have been so fraught with controversy, or have provided as much occasion for discussion and debate, as that of race. Race is a highly contradictory notion. Although deeply intertwined with the development of the modern world and intimately involved with the rise of Enlightenment-based rationalism, the idea of race also preserves fundamentally pre-modern and irrational characteristics. It…

Race and Racism - Defining Racism

Race and Racism - Dilemmas Of Meaning: The Concept Of Racism

As a world-historical phenomenon, racism is so large and so diverse that no definition can encompass all its varieties. The term's origins are themselves quite modern: its earliest use, in the late 1930s, directed attention chiefly toward anti-Semitism. Of course, awareness of race prejudice and racial discrimination preceded that coinage. The prejudice/discrimination/institutional racism …

Race and Racism - New Patterns

Given the thoroughgoing and persuasive empirical data available on the persistence of racial inequality, discrimination, and prejudice it is difficult to sustain claims that racism is a "thing of the past" or that racial identities and categories have become less salient at the turn of the twenty-first century than they were at the turn of the twentieth, whose problem, as W. E. B. Du…

Race and Racism - Bibliography

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