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Beschreibung

'A tour de force' - Dalia Gebrial

Antiracist movements are more mainstream than ever before. Liberal democracies boast of their policies designed to stamp out racism in all walks of life. Why then is racism still ever-present in our society?

This is not an accident, but by design. Capitalism is structured by racism and has relentlessly attacked powerful movements. Race to the Bottom traces our current crisis back decades, to the fragmentation of Britain's Black Power movements and their absorption into NGOs and the Labour Party.

The authors call for recovering radical histories of antiracist struggle, championing modern activism and infusing them with the urgency of our times: replacing anxieties over 'unconscious bias' and rival claims for 'representation' with the struggle for a new, socialist, multi-racial organising from below.

'A tour de force' - Dalia Gebrial

Antiracist movements are more mainstream than ever before. Liberal democracies boast of their policies designed to stamp out racism in all walks of life. Why then is racism still ever-present in our society?

This is not an accident, but by design. Capitalism is structured by racism and has relentlessly attacked powerful movements. Race to the Bottom traces our current crisis back decades, to the fragmentation of Britain's Black Power movements and their absorption into NGOs and the Labour Party.

The authors call for recovering radical histories of antiracist struggle, championing modern activism and infusing them with the urgency of our times: replacing anxieties over 'unconscious bias' and rival claims for 'representation' with the struggle for a new, socialist, multi-racial organising from below.

Über den Autor

Azfar Shafi is a researcher and organiser with a focus on policing, counter-terrorism and imperialism. He has been published by the Transnational Institute and Novara Media, and organised in movements against racism, state violence and for the Palestinian liberation struggle.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Race, racism and racialisation

2. Rise of Black power in Britain

3. 1981 and the road to antiracism from above

4. Antiracism as status quo

5. New modes of organising: Culture, community and crisis

6. Between rebellion and reaction

7. The other internationalism

8. Policing and surveillance today

9. Advancing the fight?

10. Reorienting the struggle

Conclusion: Recovering antiracism

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Importe, Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Outspoken by Pluto
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780745344676
ISBN-10: 0745344674
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Shafi, Azfar
Nagdee, Ilyas
Hersteller: Pluto Press
Outspoken by Pluto
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 196 x 127 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Azfar Shafi (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 20.06.2022
Gewicht: 0,176 kg
Artikel-ID: 120760112