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"Multiculturalism is regarded as a key feature of Canada's national identity. Yet despite an increasingly diverse population, racialized Canadians are systematically excluded from full participation in society through personal and structural forms of racism and discrimination. Race and Anti-Racism in Canada provides readers with a critical examination of how racism permeates Canadian society and articulates the complex ways to bring about equity and inclusion both individual and systemically."--

Examines the presuppositions of beliefs regarding race & racism from a theoretical & substantive perspective. From a rational standpoint, racism involves both propositions & dispositions. The first proposition, deemed racialism, suggests that there are heritable differences among humans that permit racial categorization, & that these races share specific traits & characteristics absent in other races. It is argued that racialism alone is not necessarily dangerous, but that this proposition has been the basis of false & threatening beliefs regarding race. The distinction is made between extrinsic racism, which claims that racial differences are correlated with morally relevant distinctions, & intrinsic racism, which proposes that racial differences are intrinsically morally significant. The disposition of racism is described as the tendency to use racial difference as a basis for policies or beliefs that discriminate against certain races. Based on the fact that racialism's link between race & personal characteristics is inherently false (based on genetic & theoretical research), it is concluded that both forms of racism are false due to their theoretical reliance on racialism. T. Sevier

"Racism has a long history and its devastating impacts continue to spark heated, moral and political debate and give rise to social movements and widespread protest. This accessible primer provides a cogent introduction to the study and confrontation of racism in the twenty-first century, making use of key insights from sociology and other social sciences. Drawing on a range of scholars, including from the radical black tradition and the Global South, this book explores key issues in racism studies. Putting racism into historical context, Moran explains the modernity of racism and its creation through European colonialism and imperialism, racial capitalism, and the development of racist hierarchies stimulated by colonialist exploitation as well as pseudoscientific and Enlightenment thinking centred upon white supremacy. Moran also discusses the intersectional, structural, institutional, and systemic nature of racism, and the connections between race, racism, and nationalism evident in the explosion of right-wing nationalist populism around the world. The book also investigates how the self and subjectivity are involved in racism and contribute to the reproduction of racism as a system before considering whether there are new, cultural forms of racism, and how we can account for Islamophobia and other racisms described as new, such as colour-blind racism, post-racial racism, and racism without racists. Crucially, the book explores antiracist social movements (such as Black Lives Matter) and how racism has been challenged and discusses accounts of race and racism can be given without reproducing the category of race as a 'natural' organiser of people, groups, and identities. This book will appeal to the general reader and students in the humanities and social sciences with an interesting in the continuing impact of racism, racial identities, migration, multiculturalism, ethnic and racial studies, nationalism, and identity studies"--

Explores the transition of racist practices in the Caribbean from the overt racism of the earlier stages of settlement to the more indirect & subtle discrimination persistent today. It is argued that the diversity of cultures in the Caribbean is conducive to social differentiation based on race & color. From the genocide of the Amerindians to the enslavement of Africans to indentured servitude, the long history of Caribbean racism is discussed in the context of the still prevalent color-class system. The new racism is one based on custom, cliqueism, & nepotism. The racist/antiracist struggle is discussed through several contemporary Caribbean examples: Guyana, Trinidad, Surinam, Haiti, Belize, Martinique, Guadeloupe, & French Guyana, as well as the English-speaking Caribbean & Cuba. 35 References. M. Greenberg