Trading with Differences: Racism from Race to Culture
My proposal in this article is to analyse the relationship between cultural differences and racism. I will try to show how in the case of Spain, which is a new immigrant society, racism has been discovered and explained as a social reaction to immigrants. My thesis is that this is false. In addition...
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| Idioma: | English |
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Cuadernos del Sur. Historia
2004
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| Acceso en línea: | http://bibliotecadigital.uns.edu.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1668-76042004001100001 |
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| Sumario: | My proposal in this article is to analyse the relationship between cultural differences and racism. I will try to show how in the case of Spain, which is a new immigrant society, racism has been discovered and explained as a social reaction to immigrants. My thesis is that this is false. In addition I have another and more ambitious goal, which is to discuss the concept of culture from the perspective of an explanation of what racism is about and what it is for in social terms. In my opinion, nowadays, the concept of culture, reflects some of the social mechanisms employed in the past to generate and give legitimacy to racial classifications. |
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