Post-war racism shifted from biological hierarchy to cultural difference.

Evidence

In a book of the same title, Martin Barker (1981) discusses the move from biological inferiority to cultural difference - a move by which racist discourse attempts to base its legitimacy. Arguments of the type put forward in particular by Powell are no longer based on hierarchy as much as on difference, nor do they stress the natural features of the “racialized” group, but its culture, language, religion, traditions, and customs. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3126

Categorization

• DEFINE: Barker’s ‘new racism’ is the key concept: the shift from biological inferiority to cultural difference as the basis of racist discourse.
• XREF: This is the classic new racism framework — connects to contemporary discourse in cultural racism, and to ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ since both show how cultural/religious markers get racialized. — connects to: Fighters shift from monocultural to multicultural lives, yet racism persists alongside conviviality — Amit Singh, “Carnal conviviality” and the end of…, 57; Post-1964 social proscription of racism allows measurement of social-pressure effects on prejudice. — Deborah L. Hall and David C. Matz and Wendy Wood, Why Don’t We Practice What We Preach? A…, 11; The end of Reconstruction coincided with the dawn of modern racism — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 890 (+1 more)