GM for AA

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Jul 24 06:57:28 PDT 2000


Jim heartfield wrote:


>In Britain, and I guess most of Europe, right now, East Europeans are
>the 'lowest of the low', in the most menial jobs and heavily persecuted
>by the authorities. By contrast, the official politics is self-
>consciously anti-racist as far as prejudice against people on the basis
>of colour holds.

Are Eastern Europeans racialized? Or is something else going on? Does culture take the place of biology as the defining characteristics of difference?

Doug



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