student presentation

1. “RACIALIZED
BOUNDARIES;
RACE, NATION, AND
THE ANTI-RACIST
STRUGGLE”
FLOYA ANTHIAS AND NIRA YUVAL-DAVIS
A PRESENTATION BY ISABELLA FEW AND ROHINI KAHRS

2. SCALES OF RACISM
INDIVIDUAL
racist attacks, group based exclusions
INSTITUTIONAL
prison/education/work
STRUCTURAL
slavery/apartheid/colonialism/genocide –
intrinsic to the fabric of society

3. RACISM AS AN
IDEOLOGY
Racism is a social construct which
has no standing on biological
differences but rests on the context of
racial differentiations within a social
climate
All modern racism resides on socio-
historical and cultural systems, e.g.
colonialism

4. “In the case of race … this is always
grounded on the separation of human
populations by some notion of stock
or collective heredity of traits”
Racism is constructed from historical events, and acts as a
way of reinforcing negative stereotypes about certain
populations based on historical claims which were made to
normalise social structures like slavery

5. ETHNICITY
• A form of classification on the basis of cultural
affiliations and practices
• Has always been a means through which racial
processes and thought have operated
• This idea is socially and politically constructed,
and overlaps with the construction of race as
they both involve “social construction of an
origin as a basis for community or collectivity”
E.g. Irish, Jews, Latinas

6. ETHNOS, ETHNICITY
AND NATIONALISM
“Historically, ethnic, national or racial
categories have been formed in various
ways, through conquests, colonisation and
immigration, and of course the modern
variants of these categories under the sway
of capitalism and imperialism”
E.g. Israel, prosecution of Jews in Nazi
Germany, cultural integration and the
preservation of “whiteness”

7. ETHNIC, GENDER AND
CLASS DIVISION
“All three divisions involve differential access to
resources and processes of exclusion and
inclusion, and at times oppression and
domination”
Race falls under more general categories and
should be understood within other social issues,
for instance the difference in opportunity of a white
woman and a black man, both could be limited but
one more than the other.