Abstract
The chapter begins with a compelling narrative to segue into a discussion of racism in the twenty-first century. Focusing on the shift from overt to covert types of racism, it provides a crucial methodology to facilitate a better analysis of what racism looks like in the modern world. The chapter highlights the necessity of auto-reflexive methods as central to understanding racism today. By arguing thus, it speaks against the contemporary trend of post-racialism, which seeks to deny race and, by implication, ordinary individuals’ experiences of racism.
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A racial caste system that operated in the United States, particularly in the southern states, between 1877 and the mid-1960s, which considered African Americans as second-class citizens who had to be segregated from whites in all areas of life.
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Kamaloni, S. (2019). Introduction. In: Understanding Racism in a Post-Racial World. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10985-1_1
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