Europe's New Racism
Title | Europe's New Racism PDF eBook |
Author | Evens Foundation |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2002-06 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9781571813329 |
Europe has seen a tremendous rise in popularity of new rightist political parties in the last two decades or so, claiming cultural supremacy of the so-called native Europeans over foreign immigrants. In this volume, European scholars from Russian to Britain have come together to examine the media and social and legal policies in an effort to determine the causes of this resurgence of rightist and anti-democratic ideologies. They furthermore suggest actions that might help combat racism more effectively.
Europe's New Racism
Title | Europe's New Racism PDF eBook |
Author | Evens Foundation |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1571813330 |
Europe has seen a tremendous rise in popularity of new rightist political parties in the last two decades or so, claiming cultural supremacy of the so-called native Europeans over foreign immigrants. In this volume, European scholars from Russian to Britain have come together to examine the media and social and legal policies in an effort to determine the causes of this resurgence of rightist and anti-democratic ideologies. They furthermore suggest actions that might help combat racism more effectively.
Europe's Fault Lines
Title | Europe's Fault Lines PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Fekete |
Publisher | Verso Books |
Pages | 239 |
Release | 2018-01-09 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1784787248 |
It is clear that the right is on the rise, but after Brexit, the election of Donald Trump and the spike in popularity of extreme-right parties across Europe, the question on everyone's minds is: how did this happen? An expansive investigation of the ways in which a newly-configured right interconnects with anti-democratic and illiberal forces at the level of the state, Europe's Fault Lines provides much-needed answers, revealing some uncomfortable truths. Old racisms may be structured deep in European thought, but they have been revitalized and spun in new ways: the war on terror, the cultural revolution from the right, and the migration-linked demonization of the destitute "scrounger." Drawing on her work for the Institute of Race Relations over thirty years, Liz Fekete exposes the fundamental fault lines of racism and authoritarianism in contemporary Europe.
The New Racism in Europe
Title | The New Racism in Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey Cole |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 1997-11-27 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780521584937 |
Immigration is among the most contested issues in Western Europe. Studies commonly focus on political activity and the plight of minorities, but this book breaks new ground in its emphasis on the everyday reactions of Italians to immigration, nationalism and racism. Drawing on research carried out in Palermo, Jeffrey Cole considers the ambivalent responses of rich and poor Sicilians to immigrants. He places Italian attitudes in a European context, and investigates why anti-immigrant politics are concentrated in the wealthy Italian North.
Racism in Europe
Title | Racism in Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Neil MacMaster |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 406 |
Release | 2017-03-08 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 135031739X |
The study of modern racism has tended to treat anti-Semitism and anti-black racism as separate and unconnected phenomena. This innovative study argues that a full understanding of the origins and development of racism in Europe after 1870 needs to examine the structure and interrelationships between the two dominant forms of prejudice. Contrary to expectation. anti-black racism was not confined to the colonial maritime nations of western Europe, but pepetrated even the rural societies of central and eastern Europe. Likewise, anti-Semitism could flourish even in the almost total absence of Jews. MacMaster explores the conditions under which modern political movements, faced with the crisis of modernity, began to draw upon and mobilise the negative stereotypes that, through the development of the mass media, had become almost universal features of popular culture. By weaving together the changing spatial and temporal dimensions of anti-Semitic and anti-black prejudice the study provides a fresh and more global framework for understanding modern racism.
What evidence is there of the emergence of new forms of racism within Europe?
Title | What evidence is there of the emergence of new forms of racism within Europe? PDF eBook |
Author | Caroline Wirth |
Publisher | GRIN Verlag |
Pages | 10 |
Release | 2004-11-30 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 3638329143 |
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Politics - Region: Western Europe, grade: Good, University of Southampton (Department of Politics), language: English, abstract: Racism changes over time it adapts to the current circumstance therefore, it is not a new form racism. At the moment Europe is in the geographical and in the political sense unfinished and unsure about its future. People living in this circumstance reflect that insecurity and have the need for justifications. Right-wing politicians blame foreigners and on that basis find easy solutions to complex problems. Racism is not a mysterious phenomenon, but the question remains when, why and by what actors it is used as a strategy of domination, and what kind of conditions can stimulate this use. Therefore, this essay will outline old racism and illustrate its occurrence with examples of Nazi-Germany. Secondly, new forms of racism will be explained. The new right attracts both working class and middle class voters. This essay will argue that unemployment, violence and crime, and the abuse of the social welfare state are issues problematised by the new right to gain votes. And finally, it will demonstrate that the European Union stimulates racism in a direct and indirect way. The concept of old racism was based on biological discrimination. The example of Nazi- Germany will be used as it had enormous consequences for the country and the world. The Aryan race was defined as superior to all others. The Nazis needed to blame someone for the economic and social misery of the 1920s, and the failure of the Weimar Republic. People where insecure about the future and unsatisfied about the present partly because of high unemployment and devaluation of money. As a result the UNESCO proved racism on biological grounds is a falsification of the scientific basis (Miles and Brown 2003 p. 59). Until the 1980s Germany became very cautious in using the word racism in the context of migrant workers as it was argued to be an offence against the Jews and Gypsies. Cox actually defined old racism as a “rationalisation of exploitation in the colonial time, where white people used it as a justification to suppress black people” (in Räthzel 2002 p. 4). Banton argues that the concept of the ideology originally referred to is dead. The analytical reason for Banton’s argument is that when black people joined capitalistic societies they still joined them on the bottom of society. This points to the fact that it is a “structural subordination rather than an ideological transformation” and not a racist.
Racism And Anti-Racism In Europe
Title | Racism And Anti-Racism In Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Alana Lentin |
Publisher | Pluto Press (UK) |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2004-06-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
A comparative political sociology of anti-racism in Europe, showing the various discourses within this movement