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Combating Everyday Racial Discrimination Without Assuming "Racists" or "Racism": New Intervention Ideas From a Contextual Analysis

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Title Combating Everyday Racial Discrimination Without Assuming "Racists" or "Racism": New Intervention Ideas From a Contextual Analysis
 
Creator Guerin, Bernard
 
Description The aim of this paper is to open up new forms of intervention against everyday racially discriminating practices by analyzing more specific and localised interventions. It is first argued that conceptualising the area in the abstract terms of 'racists' who possess 'racism' is not fruitful, and a variety of reasons for this are provided. Several common situations that have been researched for everyday racial discrimination are then reviewed for the specific practices that have been found. These practices, in turn, are given very diverse analyses (Guerin, 2004) of their possible functions, to assuage readers against seeking only the most obvious 'cause'. In particular, it is emphasised that many practices can be done with 'good intentions' and that those cases need to be conceptualised differently from those with 'intent'. Finally, a variety of possible intervention goals are provided to deal with each strategy that arises in particular contexts to produce the racially discriminating practices. All the suggestions provided are meant as guides only and more detailed research documenting the full contexts for discriminatory practices is urged to guide our future interventions instead of trying just to globally 'raise awareness' of other cultures.
 
Publisher University of Illinois at Chicago Library
 
Date 2006-03-16
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/bsi/article/view/120
10.5210/bsi.v14i1.120
 
Source Behavior and Social Issues; Volume 14, No. 1 (Spring/Summer 2005); 46-70
1064-9506
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/bsi/article/view/120/152