Racism today operates mainly through claims about inferior cultures rather than biology

Evidence

This analysis, which demonstrates that it is possible to shift so to speak from one racism to another, from scientific racism which has lost its credibility to cultural racism, gained widespread support in Great Britain itself. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3127 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Races are produced by racism, not by biology — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 76; Race is a culturally invented discursive category used to inferiorize groups. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1106; Modern racism targets cultural difference rather than physical traits (+12 more)

Broader Connections

• Modern racism legitimizes itself through cultural difference rather than biological hierarchy. #corroborates (1.00)
• Racism shifts from discredited scientific claims to cultural arguments #corroborates (0.95) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3127
• Cultural racism substitutes cultural traits for biological ones in racializing groups. #corroborates (0.95)
• Biological racism was replaced by a coded cultural new racism #corroborates (0.95) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1871
• Cultural racism substitutes cultural difference for biological difference as a racial logic #corroborates (0.95)
• Racism combines inferiority-based and difference-based philosophies that coexist rather than alternate #complicates (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3129
• Cultural and biological racisms cannot be sharply separated discursively #complicates (0.80) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 395
• Racism operates through biological and cultural registers that reinforce each other #complicates (0.78)