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Title: Rethinking Racism

Rethinking Racism

The Idea in History and Society

by Augie Fleras (Author)
©2025 Monographs XII, 154 Pages
Science, Society & Culture

Summary

Accusations of racism by both the progressive left and populist right have become increasingly politicized in this age of rupture. Rethinking Racism captures this moment and movement, in which the concept of racism is evolving in response to shifting discourses and emergent realities. Drawing on a wealth of experience in this fi eld and a lifetime of commitment to antiracism, author Augie Fleras challenges the reader to rethink conventional ideas about how we see, think, and debate racism at a time when the concept is difficult to pin down.

Table Of Contents

  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • About the author
  • About the book
  • This eBook can be cited
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. What Makes Racism, Racism?
  • Chapter 2. Historicizing Racism: An Evolving Idea
  • Chapter 3. Defining Racism, Embracing Complexity
  • Chapter 4. Theorizing Racism: Ideological, Structural, Experiential
  • Chapter 5. Rooting Out Racism: Rethinking Antiracism
  • Chapter 6. “Changing the Lens”: Towards a Postracism
  • References
  • Index

Augie Fleras

Rethinking Racism The Idea in History and Society

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DOI 10.3726/b22569

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About the author

A now retired professor of Sociology, Augie Fleras has published extensively across the field of social inequality, including race, immigrant, and Indigenous relations; media and minorities; and multiculturalism. He earned his doctorate in Anthropology and Maori Studies from Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. In 2018, he received a lifetime achievement award from the Canadian Ethnic Studies Association.

About the book

Accusations of racism by both the progressive left and populist right have become increasingly politicized in this age of rupture. Rethinking Racism captures this moment and movement, in which the concept of racism is evolving in response to shifting discourses and emergent realities. Drawing on a wealth of experience in this field and a lifetime of commitment to antiracism, author Augie Fleras challenges the reader to rethink conventional ideas about how we see, think, and debate racism at a time when the concept is difficult to pin down.

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Preface

Racism is more than the elephant in the room. The elephant is the room. Paraphrase of Mangram (2022).

Every once in a while something unpleasant happens that unleashes a resentment of the old orthodoxy and a yearning for something new, resulting in mounting pressure to upend conventional wisdom in exchange for fresh narratives (Shriver, 2021). The high profile resignation of Harvard’s first Black1 president proved such a rupture. Her departure just six months into her appointment not only shook the foundations of the academic world, but also rattled the bedrock of American society. Questions pertaining to the mission and purpose of the academy – presumably to discover, transmit, and preserve knowledge through research, pedagogy, and free inquiry (Levy, 2024) – leapt into play. So too did debates over the fraught issue of academic freedom and its relationship to free speech principles: who can speak, what can be said, and who decides (Bazelon and Homans, 2024)? The politics of withdrawal also cast the centrality of race into the national spotlight of a society that had naively assumed a postracial redemption under Obama.

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XII, 154
Publication Year
2025
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9781636679433
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9781636679440
ISBN (Hardcover)
9781636679426
DOI
10.3726/b22569
Language
English
Publication date
2025 (March)
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New York, Berlin, Bruxelles, Chennai, Lausanne, Oxford, 2025. XII, 154 pp.
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Biographical notes

Augie Fleras (Author)

A now retired professor of Sociology, Augie Fleras has published extensively across the fi eld of social inequality, including race, immigrant, and Indigenous relations; media and minorities; and multiculturalism. He earned his doctorate in Anthropology and Maori Studies from Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. In 2018, he received a lifetime achievement award from the Canadian Ethnic Studies Association.

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