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The Arena of Racism

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In this vital addition to the sociological literature on racism, Michel Wieviorka presents a detailed and revisionary analysis of the vocabulary of racism (prejudice, discrimination, segregation and violence), arguing that racism is not reducible to these elementary forms. He shows how the experiences of institutionalized racism in America and anti-Semitism in Europe can be analyzed to provide an understanding of the complex transition from race to racism. As cultural identies are more and more fragmented in our societies, as the social relations defined by industrial capitalism are in decline, so too are ideas of progress and universality. It is in this context of postmodern social and economic flux that Wieviorka puts forward a definition of racism. He demonstrates that racism has to be understood as an action related to factors fixed in the dislocation between the social and the communal.

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ISBN: 9780803978812
Publication date: 26th July 1995
Author: Michel Wieviorka
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 176 pages
Series: Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
Genres: Ethnic studies