This book assesses the nature and extent of the project of deracialisation required to counter the contemporary dynamics of racialisation across four varieties of modernity: Sweden, South Africa, Brazil and the UK, based on original research on each of the four country contexts. Since racism began to be recognised or identified as a problem, an assemblage of supra-national initiatives have been devised in the name of combatting, dismantling or reducing it. There has been a recent shift whereby such supra-national bodies move toward embedding strategies against racism within the framework of human rights and devolving such responsibility to other bodies at a national level.
The authors bring together a team of international experts in this field, in order to compare the priorities and effectiveness of current strategic approaches in each national context, examining their relationalities and connecting these cases within a joint theoretical and methodological framework. Thus, this book contributes to theoretical knowledge on racialisation and deracialisation, produce a new data set on contemporary interventions and institutions and establish new principles and practice for national projects of deracialisation and anti-racism, building on cross-national learning.

Identifies, unpicks and counters racial and post-racial logics Conceptualises racialisation as the process by which racial concepts, categories and divisions are embeded in society Views racism as a global system of political projects which require monitoring, analysis and measures for redress

Autorentext

Nikolay Zakharov is Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University, Sweden. Ian Law is Professor of Racism and Ethnicity Studies in the School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds, UK.

Inhalt
1 Introduction.- 2 South Africa and the Struggle for Racial Equality: Debating Deracialization, Non-racialism, Decolonization, and Africanization.- 3 The Dynamics of Racialization and Anti-racism in Contemporary Brazil.- 4 The Retreat from Deracialization in the UK.- 5 Challenging Racism in Sweden.- 6 Conclusion: Operationalizing DeracializationParadoxes and Lessons.- Ian Law and Mapping Global Racisms.