Stunning Examples of Racism
The Racism Handbook answers the question:
‘When did people start calling each other black and white, red and yellow?
It unravels contemporary racist practise and racist coded language directed against ‘black’ people. It explains how nineteenth century ‘race’ theories work. It focuses on key players who helped to form and reinforce them. It outlines the motivations and meaning behind European expansionism – which it argues is essentially ‘racism’.
The book explains the centrality of ‘race’ to the making of the modern world.
This Handbook discusses difficult questions such as:
- How can the world become post-racial when globally dominant Europeans insist on being ‘classified as white’ people’?
Surely, the first stage of a post-racial world is to eliminate ‘race’ terminology such as: ‘white’, ‘black’, ‘race’ or Asian people. Subsequently, The Handbook it explores the way that:
- ‘Racism’ has its own logic – racial logic – which is foundational to the ‘theory’ and practise of ‘racism, white supremacy’.
The Book reveals how this ‘logic’ presents itself as endless race-based social and political contradictions’ which are enforced at all costs in order to maintain domination and unequal outcomes in: employment, income, wealth, housing, education, health care and the criminal justice system.
Throughout, the Handbook ‘historicises’ ‘race’ and racism, explaining them as a product of continuing historical events. It does this so that current ‘racist incidents’ are profoundly understood as part of a ‘stream’ – a turbulent flowing river of concomitant events, pushing upstream through struggle and resistance.
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Above we have the image of George Stinney. He was an African American boy who at the age of 14 was convicted, in a proceeding later vacated as an unfair trial in 2014, of murdering two white girls, Betty June Binnicker, age 11, and Mary Emma Thames, age 7, in his hometown. He was executed by electric chair June 1944.
