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The Arena of Racism

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This text presents a detailed analysis of the vocabulary of racism (prejudice, discrimination, segregation and violence), arguing that racism is not reducible to these elementary forms. The author shows how the experiences of institutionalized racism in America and anti-semitism in Europe can be analyzed to provide an understanding of the complex transition from race to racism. As cultural identities become more fragmented in societies and as the social relations defined by industrial capitalism are in decline, so too are ideas of progress and universality. It is in this context of postmodern social and economic flux that Wieviorka puts forward a definition of racism. He demonstrates that racism has to be understood as an action to factors fixed in the dislocation between the social and the communal.
Michel Wieviorka is president of the International Sociological Association.
PART ONE: FROM RACE TO RACISM Introduction Race as Explanatory Principle Race Relations Prejudice and Personality Racism as Ideology Conclusion PART TWO: THE ELEMENTARY FORMS OF RACISM Introduction Levels and Logics of Racism Prejudice Segregation, Discrimination Racist Violence Conclusion PART THREE: THE UNITY OF RACISM Introduction Social Movements and Racism Two Patterns of Racism Communal Identity and Racism Conclusion The Unity of Racism
`Michel Wieviorka is one of France's leading sociologists. Strongly influenced by the theoretical perspectives of Touraine, he is nevertheless a distinctive voice and his writing on several different subjects is original and provocative. Responding to the new expression of racism in France over the past decade or more, with this book, he has stimulated a debate about the meaning and scope of the concept of racism which articulates with the writing of other leading French sociologists and philosophers. But Wieviorka's concerns and focus are not just with France but with the nature and effects of racism in the late twentieth century and it therefore warrants wide attention' - Professor Robert Miles, University of Glasgow
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