De(‐)Meaning Anti‐Racism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19213637 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jasbinder S Nijjar (0009-0002-6844-9464, Goldsmiths University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Publication date | 2026-05-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1315 • E-ISSN: 1468-4446 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-4446.70130 |
| PMID | 42162580 |
| OpenAlex | W7161772688 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Following David Theo Goldberg's astute insights, this article discusses a form of neoliberal authoritarianism that extends incessant denial of systematic racial degradation by de(-)meaning anti-racism. It argues that de(-)meaning works to redefine anti-racist struggle-including demands for a free Palestine and scholarship explaining the politics of racism-as racist and hostile, while recasting racialised and militarised state power as anti-racist and humane. Thus, anti-racism is de-meaned of its ethical and emancipatory terms, re-meaned as an unethical and exclusionary endeavour threatening modern socio-political arrangements, demeaned in the traditional, non-hyphenated sense of the word, and subject to state warfare masquerading as 'anti-racism'. As a specific strategy for maintaining structural racism, de(-)meaning necessitates resistance rather than defensiveness by reclaiming and renewing anti-racism that is at once political, collective, anti-militaristic and transformative
Authoritarianism · Denial · Power (physics) · Resistance (ecology) · Scholarship · Subject (documents) · Critical Race Theory in Education · Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |