Class-based Marxism alone stopped explaining persistent European racism after 1989.

Evidence

In the last decade of the twentieth century, as virulent movements of nationalism and racism emerged in the “old countries” of Europe, especially in the wake of collapsing communist regimes, psychoanalytic ideas became increasingly central to attempts at making sense of these “postcolonial” or “postmodern” forms (Rattansi, 1998). The notion that racism (or nationalism) could be understood as simply a displaced - and hence “false” - type of class consciousness no longer stood up once it became clear that class - at least in its Marxian sense - was no longer a sufficient concept to explain either the persistence or the transformation of structural inequalities in these societies (Goldberg, 1993). — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1357

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• DEFINE: Explains the shift from class reduction to psychoanalytic frameworks for understanding racism.

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• Post-Cold-War racism showed class analysis alone cannot explain structural inequality (similarity 0.88)
• Eurocentric method cripples mainstream and Marxist analyses of racism (similarity 0.79)
• Psychoanalytic accounts of racism reduce structural inequality to individual unconscious dynamics (similarity 0.79)
• European racism has largely shifted from scientific to cultural grounds of legitimacy (similarity 0.79)
• Twentieth-century racism shifted from biology to culture (similarity 0.79)
• Racialism is an enduring principle of European civilization, not a modern invention (similarity 0.78)
• Racism increased in Europe after World War II’s delegitimization of it. (similarity 0.78)
• Race studies spread across disciplines, displacing class-centered analysis and its sociological monopoly. (similarity 0.78)