| Titre | La construction du racisme | |
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| Auteur | Étienne Balibar | |
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Revue | Actuel Marx |
| Numéro | no 38, novembre 2005 Le racisme après les races | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Dossier |
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| Page | 11-28 | |
| Résumé anglais |
We observe many signs of the fact
that the category « racism » not only has profoundly changed its meaning, but could also
have reached the limits of its historical validity, both as an instrument of theoretical
analysis, and as an instrument of progressive politics. The failed World Conference
against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and related Intolerance in Durban
(2002) was a striking indication in this respect. As a consequence, we can no longer
proceed in our struggle against extreme discriminations and violence without critically
revisiting the origins and meaning of our notion of « racism ». The term was coined in the
30's in its current use, but it was not before the 1950 and 1951 Declarations on race and
racism, issued under the aegis of UNESCO and the UN, that it named a scientific
paradigm. The article examines its logical function (to give a unitary description of the
phenomena of anti-Semitism, colonialist subjection, and colour segregation), its ethical
prerequisites (the « humanist » principle of the indivisibility of the Human Species), its
epistemological consequences (a Copernican Revolution in the field of anthropology, and
finally the alternative conceptualizations that – right from the beginning – confronted its
research program with a different problematic of the community, notably in Antelme,
Primo Levi, Fanon and Arendt. Source : Éditeur (via Cairn.info) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=AMX_038_0011 |
