<i>Heads I Win, Tails You Lose</i>: Anti-Black Racism as Fluid, Relentless, Individual and Systemic

Gillborn, David

doi:10.1080/0161956x.2017.1403178

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“…Universities should also acknowledge the existence and prevalence of interethnic racism in ways that avoid overgeneralising students' experiences, as racism manifests differently within and across minority ethnic groups. Indeed, we acknowledge that our study did not probe specifically on students' voice on anti-Black racism as a distinct form of racism (see Gillborn, 2018), which merits further research.…”

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Is race still relevant? Student perceptions and experiences of racism in higher education

Wong

ElMorally

Copsey-Blake

et al. 2020

Cambridge Journal of Education

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This paper explores the current views and experiences of university students towards issues of race and racism in England. A decade into the UK's Equality Act (2010), we have witnessed a proliferation of support for minority rights and movements, especially from the younger generation, often praised as progressive and liberal. Yet, in UK higher education, there is growing evidence and concern about racial and ethnic inequalities in the experiences and outcomes of minority ethnic students. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 42 undergraduates in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) degrees, the authors explore the nuances in racial perspectives as they highlight three contemporary student discourses of racism: the naïve; the bystander; and the victim. Implications for policy and practice are suggested.

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Is race still relevant? Student perceptions and experiences of racism in higher education

Wong

ElMorally

Copsey-Blake

et al. 2020

Cambridge Journal of Education

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“…The processes of the ongoing attempts to (re)racialize people according to outdated, biological categories (primarily, but not entirely, based on a Black/White or European/African binary) described by Gillborn (2016Gillborn ( , 2018 are not entirely analogous to the racialization processes described by Cole (see above), although their potential outcomes are similar. Crucially, Gillborn makes no appeal to modes of production when describing these contemporary processes of racial categorisation, nor does he appeal to any other uniquely Marxist concepts.…”

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“…In a similar vein, Gillborn (2018) has also argued that, particularly in the UK and USA, there is a persistent drive to establish a scientific basis for the belief that White people are genetically pre-disposed to have higher IQ scores that Black people, regardless of how many times these ideas are debunked and exposed as being the products of flawed scientific method. Furthermore, these attempts to establish genetic reasons for differences in IQ and academic attainment between White people and Black people are couched in 'racial inexplicitness' (Gillborn, 2018) and have become ever subtler, with proponents of these ideas, rarely, if ever, mentioning race directly in an effort to avoid accusations of overt racism or of indulging in racial pseudo-science (accusations that had previously been highly damaging following the publication of the notorious, pseudo-scientific text, 'The Bell Curve' (Herrnstein and Murray, 1994)). Nevertheless, such claims strongly imply a genetic difference in the intelligence levels of different racially identified groups and seek to reify and give scientifically credibility to racial categories that became scientifically obsolete decades ago.…”

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Why the critical race theory concept of ‘White supremacy’ should not be dismissed by neo-Marxists: Lessons from contemporary Black radicalism

Walton

2019

Power and Education

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Since entering the field of education studies, critical race theory has had an uneasy relationship with Marxism. One particular point of disagreement between Marxists and critical race theory scholars centres on the critical race theory concept of ‘White supremacy’. Some Marxist scholars suggest that, because of its reliance on ‘White supremacy’, critical race theory is unable to explain the prevalence of racism in Western, capitalist societies. These Marxists also argue that ‘White supremacy’ as understood within CRT is actively damaging to radical, emancipatory movements because the concept misrepresents the position of the White working class as the beneficiaries of racism, and in doing so, it alienates White workers from their Black counterparts. Some neo-Marxist thinkers have sought to replace the concept of ‘White supremacy’ with ‘racialisation’, a concept which is grounded in capitalist modes of production and has a historical, political and economic basis. Drawing on arguments from critical race theory, Marxism and Black radicalism, this paper argues that the critical race theory concept of ‘White supremacy’ is itself grounded in historical, political and economic reality and should not be dismissed by neo-Marxists. Incorporating ‘White supremacy’ into a neo-Marxist account of racism makes it more appealing to a broader (Black) radical audience.

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“…The racialization of the other, i.e. racism, is, and must be, understood as socially constructed but it is not uniform in the ways it is conceived, and the ways it operates and is deployed by its purveyors (Gillborn 2018). It works differently in different modern polities, and it has taken different forms as human polities got larger and more complex.…”

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The social evolution of distant othering and the racialized other

Grell-Brisk¹,

Anderson²,

Chase‐Dunn³

2020

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Critical race theory holds that racism, and by extension othering, is embedded within every aspect of American society. We agree with critical race theorists, but elaborate further, that othering in some form or another, has existed since the Stone Age, and evolves with the uneven expansion of social complexity and the emergence of hierarchies. Othering, has always been important for reproducing differences and inequalities within society. We highlight the socially “distant other” to instruct the ways we discern modern racism, and how it has evolved from its past iterations. The argument we hope to convey is that at its core, distant othering involves the fear of a perceived threat to the existing social order and with the emergence of global capitalism, the racialized version of othering is violent, a violence that that becomes particularly intense when rates of profit collapse (i.e. economic crises) and/or when group-statuses are threatened. The theoretical perspective we use is institutional materialism and we take a historical, long-term sociocultural evolution approach. We detail othering in the Stone Age, which centers around kinship distance, the transition from small scale societies to the Bronze Age, as well as othering in the Axial Age and the modern era. The modern version of othering, which centers on nationality, race and ethnicity, is coupled with global capitalism and plays out in particularly cruel ways.

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Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: Anti-Black Racism as Fluid, Relentless, Individual and Systemic

Cited by 41 publications

References 15 publications

Is race still relevant? Student perceptions and experiences of racism in higher education

Is race still relevant? Student perceptions and experiences of racism in higher education

Why the critical race theory concept of ‘White supremacy’ should not be dismissed by neo-Marxists: Lessons from contemporary Black radicalism

The social evolution of distant othering and the racialized other

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