Racism is a world problem. From Morocco to China, Brazil to Indonesia, racism is being debated and contested. Multiracism broadens the horizon on this global challenge, showing that racism has a diverse history with multiple roots and routes.

Drawing on examples of racism from across the globe, with particular focus on cases from Asia and Africa, Alastair Bonnett rethinks the origins of racism and the connections between racism and modernity. Arguing that plural modernities are interwoven with plural racisms, he explores the relationship of racism to history, religion, politics, and nationalism, as well as to anti-Black prejudice and discourses of whiteness. Empirically rich, with numerous in-depth case studies, Multiracism equips readers to understand racism in a multipolar world where power is no longer the sole possession of the West. It provides and provokes a new, international, and post-Western vision of racism for the twenty-first century.

Autorentext

Alastair Bonnett is Professor of Social Geography at Newcastle University.

Inhalt

Introduction: Reframing Racisms

Chapter 1 Explaining Racisms Beyond the West: Roots and Routes

Chapter 2 History and Nostalgia: Ruptures, Racism, and the Experience of Loss

Chapter 3 Religion's Furies: Racism in Fundamentalism, Casteism, and Islamophobia

Chapter 4 Political Sites of Racist Modernity: Communism, Capitalism, and Nationalism

Chapter 5 Shifting Symbols: Whiteness in Japan and Blackness in Morocco

Conclusions