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Whatbis antiracism?: And why it means anticapitalism

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London Verso 2023Description: 298 p. ill. Includes notes and indexISBN:
  • 9781839762765
Subject(s): Other classification:
  • Y7 R3
Summary: ABOUT WHAT IS ANTIRACISM? This scintillating intellectual and political history provides a new understanding of racism, and a better way to fight it Liberals have been arguing for nearly a century that racism is fundamentally an individual problem of extremist beliefs. Responding to Nazism, thinkers like gay rights pioneer Magnus Hirschfeld and anthropologist Ruth Benedict called for teaching people, especially poor people, to be less prejudiced. Here lies the origin of today’s liberal antiracism, from diversity training to Hollywood activism. Meanwhile, a more radical antiracism flowered in the Third World.
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ABOUT WHAT IS ANTIRACISM?
This scintillating intellectual and political history provides a new understanding of racism, and a better way to fight it

Liberals have been arguing for nearly a century that racism is fundamentally an individual problem of extremist beliefs. Responding to Nazism, thinkers like gay rights pioneer Magnus Hirschfeld and anthropologist Ruth Benedict called for teaching people, especially poor people, to be less prejudiced. Here lies the origin of today’s liberal antiracism, from diversity training to Hollywood activism. Meanwhile, a more radical antiracism flowered in the Third World.

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