Racism as neglect and denial

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ID2149222
AutoresA Elias (0000-0001-8871-5956, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Burwood, VIC, Australia, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Volume47
Fascículo3
Páginas483-505
Data de publicação2024-02-17
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
EditoraRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2023.2181668
OpenAlexW4323662033
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas20
Referências citadas76

Has racism become a wicked problem, or it persists because of deficient anti-racism and/or unintentional or wilful neglect? This article examines neglect and denial as cognitive and functional features embedded in structural racial inequities. Denial and neglect, often analysed in socio-political discourse, are related yet distinct concepts, while neglect remains an underexplored feature of racism. I argue that denial and neglect embody key epistemic omissions enabling new racism to thrive unimpeded. Drawing on colourblind, White ignorance, and racial apathy literature, I conceptualize "racism as neglect" to draw attention to persistent yet insidious, often discounted racial inequities permeating the Global North. Understanding neglect and denial, and how they operate through minimization, ignorance, silence, or indifference, is crucial in tackling racism occurring in ideas, behaviours, and policies, and in omissions of anti-racist actions. Combating racism requires producing evidence of racism and pressing society to abandon evasion of responsibility and take effective actions against structural racism

Criminology · Denial · Ignorance · Neglect · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Racism · Sociology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Social Psychology