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Racism: A Primer~*

Racism is sociologically defined (and therefore not going to be used in the DICTIONARY) as policies and practices put into place to enforce hierarchies. These hierarchies are also known as ways to keep white people in power.

In short, racism = prejudice + power. Power being the way that white people exert their power just by having white skin. Although race is a biological concept and therefore it has no place in being used in conversations tied to one’s worth, it is still used as a tool to support racism. 

Being the good citizen that I am I have uploaded some amazing articles written by mostly men (so hopefully you will take them more to heart but some of these men aren’t white so idk) who have degrees and shit in sociology and this is taken as fact and this is their life’s work. They have been published in journals! Read them.

First: The mostly easy to understand wikibooks to racism.

Works on post-racial/post-privilege:

1. Becoming Post-White: Robert Elliot Fox
2. The Persisten Power of Race:  Harrison
3. White Americans, The New Minority? (THIS ARTICLE IS NOT WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE IN THE TITLE SO FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DON’T CITE IT WITHOUT READING IT): Warren and Twine 
4. From Bi-racial to tri-racial (something about exploring racial stratification): Bonila - Silva

On racism/democracy/policies/culture/whatever:

1. The Great Islamphobic Crusade: Blumenthal
2. The Criminalization of Undocumented Migrants: Golash-Boza
3. Racism and Democracy Reconsidered: Gould
4. The Rise of Anti-Muslim Hate: Kumar
5. Structural Racism and American Democracy*: Marable

*THE MOST IMPORTANT TEXT YOU WILL READ. IF YOU DON’T CARE ABOUT THE REST OF THE POST I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT 

And then you go on to say wow but racism is only in America!1!! Something about Africa to disprove my theory!!!

Racism in South Africa:

1. From Racial Class to Apartheid: Bond
2. Beyond Racism (discusses in SA, Brazil, and the US): Fredrickson

Racism in Brazil:

1. From “Racial Democracy” to Affirmative Action: Htun
2. Toward a History of Brazil’s “Cordial Racism”: Race Beyond Liberalism: Ownensby
3. Who is Black in Brazil?:  Santos

Racism in Germany:

1. ‘If You Can’t Pronounce My Name You Can Just Call Me Pride’: El-Tayeb
2. Precolonial Images of Africa, Colonialism, and Fascism: Opitz et al
3. Others from Within from Without: Wright

Racism in Europe:

1. Racism and Anti-Racism in World Perspective: Solomos
2. Talking Culture: Stolcke*
3. French Racism/veiled racism (youtube link)

*also good one on who’s allowed to culture and who is not

More:

1. Spike Lee talking about Obama (video)
2. Racism in Brazil (vid)
3. Racial Tensions in South Africa 1, 2, 3
4. America’s Native Prisoners of War (vid; I noticed there is a lack of NA discussion in this post and I’m sorry about that)

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The only reason I am doing this is because I can’t just keep trying to explain this to people and I think it’s a damn fucking shame that people do not want to learn about this. Additionally, I have the privilege of taking a solid class on this but I did learn from the internet. There is some privilege in learning but in no way should I have to put up with racist and sexist remarks everyday (online or off) and be okay with it.

Reblogging because this is important.

Reblogging and bookmarking.