Gramsci’s concepts transfer to racism despite his silence on it

Evidence

It was not very long ago that Anglophone scholars of racism understood racism in terms of biology, and specifically in terms of the black–white binary. At the same time, other scholars, especially in continental Europe, understood racism in terms of antisemitism, especially in the recent biologized forms that Europe manifested in the 20th century. When it began to be clear that these two paradigms were failing to capture some contemporary experiences, such as anti-Asian cultural racism in Britain or anti-Arab cultural racism in France, some scholars began to move away from these paradigms. Even so, the pull of these biologistic models was so strong that even today many scholars of racism understand cultural racism in quasi-naturalistic terms, seeing culture as a ‘code’ for the biological racisms that they find more intelligible. — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 583 (#responds-to, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Racism scholarship long confined itself to biological black-white and antisemitic models — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 583

Broader Connections

• Racism scholarship long confined itself to biological black-white and antisemitic models #responds-to (0.75) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 583