Functional Explanation Again

Kelley Walker kelley at interpactinc.com
Thu Mar 22 14:17:04 PST 2001


At 09:54 PM 3/22/01 +0000, Justin Schwartz wrote:
>I _specifically_ excepted black hatred of whites, which I regard as not
>unreasonable, although unfortunate. I think it's racism, though, when
>Asians--today a privileged group, though not historically, and of course
>not all Asians--hate blacks. Or when Jews do. Bear in mind, when my Jewish
>ancestors came to this country, Jews weren't white. In Japan, anti-black
>racism is fairly ferious; also anti-Chinese and anti-Korean racism.
>(Right. Yoshie?)
>
>I agree, of course, that in America, anti-black racism by whites is the
>benchmark of other racisms. But you seem to think that is an objection to
>having a term to pick it out, to distinguish it from other racisms. I
>find that puzzling.
>
>--jks

why not race chauvinism? eh? or ethnocentrism, an older more typical word in the social sciences?



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