The Theory of Cultural Racism

Black Immigrants in the United States and the "Cultural Narratives" of Ethnicity

“…Thus, the reality that immigrants of color are "leapfrogging over native American Blacks in achievement" (Waters 1999b(Waters : 1265 clearly implies that the problem is within the United States Black community itself, in its "values." In other words, African Americans have not learned the things they need to be treated equally to their White counterparts; they have not learned how to behave in appropriate ways, as social adults (Blaut 1992).…”

“…Specifically, the current discourse of "ethnicity" perpetuates a form of racism under a theory that denies the relevance of race while it continuously recodes the biological notions of race as "culture" (Blaut 1992). My primary argument is that the discursive use of Black/African immigrant "ethnic and cultural distinctiveness" is in fact predicated upon a repackaged "culture of poverty" 7 discourse that serves to perpetuate stereotypical understandings of United States-born Black experiences and identity formations.…”

Islam Between Inclusion and Exclusion: A (Decolonial) Frame Problem

“…This position resembles that of Hesse [2007] who maintains that rather than being necessarily correlated with the presence (or absence) of material markers on the body, Racialization [is] embodied in a series of onto-colonial taxonomies of land, climate, history, bodies, customs, language, all of which became sedimented metonymically, metaphorically, and normatively, as the assembled attributions of race [emphasis added]. (pp.658-659) In short, while embodiment, in the broad sense of materiality (or physicality), is a necessary condition for race, such embodiment can assume -and, historically, has assumed -different forms includingand crucially, for my argument -forms that are religious, philosophical, 'scientific' and cultural or civilizational [Blaut 1992]. …”

Immigration and Nationalism in Greece

“…At each moment in history, therefore, Europe has been ahead -materially, technologically, politically and socially. On the other hand, non-Europeans acquired long ago cultural qualities that have blocked their development (Blaut 1992 Because the problem is culture, i.e., acquired features instead of innate, this inequality will disappear with time. Until it does, however, each person must be treated in a way suitable to his or her abilities; higher abilities justify higher rewards.…”

“…argue that the boundary that separates the broad category "Europeanness" from "nonEuropeanness" (Hesse 2007: 646, emphasis in the original) persists from the colonial era to the present (Blaut 1992;Goldberg 2006;Hesse 2007;Lentin 2008), and has historically latched on to a variety of markers in order to stay in place and continue to perform its classificatory function. The concept, Delanty argues, has always been constructed not in unity, i.e., to reflect a cultural content shared by its people(s), but in opposition to a succession of Others and with the goal to foster unequal power configurations between the Western European center and its peripheries.…”