Universalism, Humanism and the Discourse of Race

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ID20070291
AuthorsKenan Malik (corresponding author)
Year1996
Pages217-259
Publication date1996-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueThe meaning of race (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherMacmillan Education UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/978-1-349-24770-7_9
OpenAlexW2502317851
ISBN9781349247707
LanguageEN
References cited23

A few weeks after the riot that shook Los Angeles in May 1992, I gave a lecture on racism in America to a group of students at a north London college. The audience was largely young and black. In the discussion that followed, there was a lively debate over my view that the fragmentation of American society into competing ethnic groups — African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, Korean-Americans, and so on — was a fatal blow to the struggle for black rights. Almost the entire audience disagreed. 'African-Americans', one student explained, 'are different. Our problems are different, our experiences are different, our history is different and our culture is different. We have to gain respect ourselves before we can unite with other people.'

Ethnic group · Humanism · Political science · Politics · Racism · Sociology · Universalism · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society · Religious studies

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