Post-racialisme, déni du racisme et crise de la blanchité
Focussing on the postracial drive to undermine racism through its purported universalization, the paper is aimed at analyzing, from a critical race studies perspective, how the ‘racial eliminativist’ demands, that underlie postracialist projects, paradoxically, crystallize into new forms of racial d...
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| author | Alana Lentin |
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| description | Focussing on the postracial drive to undermine racism through its purported universalization, the paper is aimed at analyzing, from a critical race studies perspective, how the ‘racial eliminativist’ demands, that underlie postracialist projects, paradoxically, crystallize into new forms of racial deniability, which I study through the contemporary expressions of ‘not racism’. Thus the argument is not about the existence of race as a factor determining social and political relations, hence ‘anti-racialism’, but rather about the establishment of definitions of racism that either sideline or deny race both as an historical phenomenon and as experienced by racialised people, on the one hand ; push for a dominant interpretation of racism as a moral one which sutures it to assessments of individual character, on the other hand. Three key facets of this ‘not racism’ will be put under scrutiny : the tendency to oppose race and class ; the alleged ‘unhelpfulness’ of racism; and the so called ‘elitism’ of antiracism. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-fb1d6685109a4886a2addd5dfc6c84c02022-12-21T18:56:22ZfraAssociation Internationale des Sociologues de Langue FrançaiseSociologies1992-26552019-05-01Post-racialisme, déni du racisme et crise de la blanchitéAlana LentinFocussing on the postracial drive to undermine racism through its purported universalization, the paper is aimed at analyzing, from a critical race studies perspective, how the ‘racial eliminativist’ demands, that underlie postracialist projects, paradoxically, crystallize into new forms of racial deniability, which I study through the contemporary expressions of ‘not racism’. Thus the argument is not about the existence of race as a factor determining social and political relations, hence ‘anti-racialism’, but rather about the establishment of definitions of racism that either sideline or deny race both as an historical phenomenon and as experienced by racialised people, on the one hand ; push for a dominant interpretation of racism as a moral one which sutures it to assessments of individual character, on the other hand. Three key facets of this ‘not racism’ will be put under scrutiny : the tendency to oppose race and class ; the alleged ‘unhelpfulness’ of racism; and the so called ‘elitism’ of antiracism.http://journals.openedition.org/sociologies/10990diversityraceracismpostracialismracist denialnot racism |
| spellingShingle | Alana Lentin Post-racialisme, déni du racisme et crise de la blanchité Sociologies diversity race racism postracialism racist denial not racism |
| title | Post-racialisme, déni du racisme et crise de la blanchité |
| title_full | Post-racialisme, déni du racisme et crise de la blanchité |
| title_fullStr | Post-racialisme, déni du racisme et crise de la blanchité |
| title_full_unstemmed | Post-racialisme, déni du racisme et crise de la blanchité |
| title_short | Post-racialisme, déni du racisme et crise de la blanchité |
| title_sort | post racialisme deni du racisme et crise de la blanchite |
| topic | diversity race racism postracialism racist denial not racism |
| url | http://journals.openedition.org/sociologies/10990 |
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