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In common usage racism has come to cover a multitude of sins. Racism/racist have frequently become little more than terms of abuse. As a result even in the supposedly precise discourse of the law, race is often confused with practically every other term of collective identity. Nonetheless as a destructive social phenomenon race has functioned in ways that differ significantly from other collectivities. Race is often presumed to have a fixed, more precise, allegedly scientific and objective, biological basis unlike terms-supposedly more cultural or political-such as ethnicity, people, nation, linguistic, or religious group. That race, just as much as these other concepts, is ultimately culturally and socially constructed is of course denied by its true believers.Discussions of race and racism often ignore a fundamental issue. The division of humanity into various groupings and the essential permanence not only of the groups themselves but also of the criteria that define them are taken for granted. Accordingly the focus has become how and why various forms and degrees of superiority/inferiority or prejudice and oppression against them, i.e., the most conventional definitions of raci

Author

Benjamin Braude

Publisher

Berghahn Books

Published

2022

Language

EN