RACISM: A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION

Racism: A Very Short Introduction



Racism: A Very Short Introduction

Introduction

The book “Racism: A Very Short Introduction is authored by Ali Rattansi. This book was launched in 2007 and became an immensely significant work that sheds light on the documented and issues related to racism. Ali Rattansi is a thoroughly esteemed author with numerous publications and he is also a visiting faculty in City University, London. The book expounds various forms of racism that has existed in society. The books complements with latest scientific researches to delineate ethnicity, race, and xenophobia. The book elaborates the concept that, despite various civil rights movements, the phenomenon of racial prejudice and discrimination is strongly rooted in Western culture.

Discussion

The author has thoroughly leveraged his writing through the assistance of secondary researches. The author has summarized the works of other to articulate in such a manner that it depict the overall concept. The author has used both printed and un-printed material to support his arguments. The book elaborates that why the concept of racism is strongly rooted in the Western culture. It also expounds the difference amongst the words such as racism, ethnocentrism, xenophobia, and nationalism. It scrutinizes that how the scientific validity of race has been continuously undermined by genetic science. It delineates the up-to-date research and historical instances from American and British civil rights movements (Rattansi, 2007).

Racism exists because there are races that actually emerge within our historical moment as victims of this type of oppression; we can see historical groups of people assigned to inferior categories and having their humanity determined on the basis of these constraints. The preference for abstractions about race allows whites, and other liberal sympathizers to participate in rhetoric of compassion that exempts them from being attacked for their personal racist or classist participation. This ...