How racism works - and how it doesn't work. Why a totalizing understanding of racism is insufficient for theory and research.

Autor/in	Scherr, Albert
Titel	How racism works - and how it doesn't work. Why a totalizing understanding of racism is insufficient for theory and research.
Quelle	In: On education, 5 (2022) 13, 7 S.Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (3) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2571-7855
DOI	10.25656/01:29937 10.17899/on_ed.2022.13.8
URN	urn:nbn:de:0111-pedocs-299377
Schlagwörter	Ungleichheit; Diskriminierung; Menschenrechte; Rassismus; Hierarchie
Abstract	This article calls for a differentiated discussion of different forms of discrimination and racism. The reason for this is that a totalizing understanding of racism, which claims a comprehensive racist structuring of society, fails to recognize the complexity and contradictory nature of social conditions and relations. In connection with this, the question must be raised whether a critique of racism that claims for itself the position of a radical critique of contemporary societies is more appropriately to be understood as an expression of a social transformation in which racism is no longer suitable as an ideological basis for the production and legitimation of economic inequalities and political power relations. (DIPF/Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2026/3