Racism splits into six distinct elementary forms from stereotypes to genocide

Evidence

To this end, our first category includes prejudices, opinions, and stereotypes, as well as racist rumors, that is to say expressions which offer representations of the Other (and of oneself) which favor the ingroup at the expense of the outgroup, magnifying the differences and even going so far as nurturing discriminatory attitudes. Our second category includes forms of racism expressed as segregation behavior. The latter is sometimes directly and explicitly racial, and is sometimes the product of social and economic processes which culminate in racial separation. Segregation is based on an attitude of differentiation; discrimination, which defines a third category of forms of racism, has more to do with hierarchization. Here we are not dealing with exclusion, but with less favorable forms of treatment of the victim group and its members in access to employment, social housing, and education, for example, or in the media. A fourth category, which ranges from racial harassment to the barbarianism of genocide, includes racist violence, which is sometimes infrapolitical and sometimes political, sometimes “hot” and expressive in the first case, and “in cold blood,” organized and instrumental, in the second. Finally, we would like to add two further categories, or elementary forms of racism: first, political racism, that is, racism contained in the programs of political bodies, whether it be parties, smaller organizations, or the state, and second, ideological and doctrinaire racism as it is theorized in writings whose main objective is using racist ideology in an explanation of the world. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3133

Categorization

• DEFINE: Supplies a taxonomy of six elementary forms of racism: stereotypes/rumors, segregation, discrimination, violence, political racism, and ideological racism — each with a defining logic.
• XREF: A parsing framework parallel to the reader’s habit of breaking huge phenomena (noise, silence) into discrete analytical categories.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3133