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The limits of anti-racism
Reed, Adolph J.
http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Antiracism.htmlDate Written: 2009-09-01 Publisher: Left Business Observer 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 |