‘Race might be a unicorn, but its horn could draw blood’: Racialisation, Class and Racism in a Non-Western Context

Autor: Zaheer Baber
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Critical Sociology. 48:151-169
ISSN: 1569-1632
0896-9205
Popis: In this article, the concepts of ‘racialisation’, ‘racial projects’, and ‘racisms’ are deployed to analyse the social construction of distinctive groups and the dynamics of group conflicts in India where the white vs. non-white binary as the key element of race relations does not exist. My main argument is that in India the racialisation of specific groups constructs racial categories that intersect with class relations, to produce inequalities and struggles over material and non-material resources. A related argument is that despite the seemingly seamless braiding of race and class, it is in fact class that plays a more significant role in producing as well as sustaining racialised social inequality.
Databáze: OpenAIRE