Racism is usually wrongly folded into a general category of prejudice
Evidence
Most commonly (though wrongly), racism is understood as a variety of inter-group resentment or prejudice. Sometimes racism is set apart from other sentiments or beliefs of the wider class by its emotional intensity; at other times, it is set apart by reference to hereditary, biological and extra-cultural attributes which, unlike the non-racist variants of group animosity, it normally contains. In some cases writers about racism point out the scientific pretensions that other, non-racist yet similarly negative stereotypes of foreign groups, do not usually possess. Whatever the feature chosen, however, the habit of analysing and interpreting racism in the framework of a larger category of prejudice is seldom breached. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 183
Categorization
- DEFINE: Establishes Bauman’s key move: racism must be separated from generic prejudice, a definitional distinction the reader will need for the Islamophobia toolkit.
- XREF: connects to: Islamophobia is increasingly theorized as a form of racism rather than mere religious prejudice; Race relations is a false category masking underlying white racism — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 672
Related
- Islamophobia predates its neologism as a racism tied to the history of race (similarity 0.84)
- Islamophobia is rarely analyzed through the lens of race and racism. (similarity 0.84)
- Antisemitism and Islamophobia share tropes but remain structurally distinct racisms (similarity 0.83)
- Anti-Muslim racism operates through a distinct racial logic (similarity 0.83)
- Islamophobia is best understood as an ideology akin to racism (similarity 0.82)
- Islamophobia operates as a racial formation, not merely religious prejudice (similarity 0.82)
- Islamophobia operates as entrenched American race politics producing anti-Muslim racism (similarity 0.82)
- Islamophobia and racial prejudice are entangled in distinct ways across Western contexts (similarity 0.82)
- The term Islamophobia understates the racial and political roots of anti-Muslim bias (similarity 0.82)
- Four conceptual moves permit the de-racialization of Islamophobia (similarity 0.82)
- Anti-Muslim racism cannot be understood only through recent U.S. racial formations (similarity 0.81)
- Racism develops from elemental antipathy through theorized levels (similarity 0.81)
- Racism shows natural affinity with anti-modern emotions (similarity 0.81)
- Anti-racist movements often fail to see anti-Muslim bigotry as racism (similarity 0.81)
- Islamophobia operates as cultural racism rooted in religion, culture, and ethnicity rather than biology. (similarity 0.80)