This volume examines the difficulty of naming racism in contemporary Europe and explores the critical purchase and effectiveness of analytical concepts of racism in national contexts.

Racism has become difficult to name in Europe. Racial semantics are shifting, race is coded in multiple ways and the defense of naturalized privilege is today regularly argued so as to preempt accusations of racism. The possibility to address racism as a particular kind of power formation has become complicated. This volume examines how »race« relates to the operations of social power in particular contexts and what the critical purchase and effectiveness of analytical concepts of racism can be. It combines conceptual reflections with case studies exploring the diverse conjunctures of talking about racism in European countries today.

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Schirin Amir-Moazami ist Professorin für Islam in Europa am Institut für Islamwissenschaft und Principal Investigator an der Berlin Graduate School »Muslim Cultures and Societies« der Freien Universität Berlin. Sie forscht zu Religionspolitiken, islamischen Bewegungen in Europa, Politischer Theorie, Säkularismus und Geschlechterfragen.