The limits of anti-racism

http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Antiracism.html

Publisher:  Left Business Observer
Date Written:  01/09/2009
Year Published:  2009  
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX11938

The contemporary discourse of 'antiracism' is focused much more on taxonomy than politics. It emphasizes the name by which we should call some strains of inequality -- whether they should be broadly recognized as evidence of 'racism' -- over specifying the mechanisms that produce them or even the steps that can be taken to combat them. And, no, neither 'overcoming racism' nor 'rejecting whiteness' qualifies as such a step any more than does waiting for the 'revolution' or urging God's heavenly intervention.

Subject Headings

• Anti-Racism
• Black History & Identity
• Civil Rights
• Ideological Cliches
• Ideology
• Inequality
• Injustice
• Pseudoradicalism
• Race & Class
• Racism
• Rhetoric
• White Privilege
• Whiteness