Protection of racism from the anti-racism movement: taking colorblindness racial discrimination as an example

Authors

  • Amy Wang

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.61173/xk41vc72

Keywords:

anti-racism movement, liberal racism, colorblindness racism

Abstract

After the emergence of many great anti-racism movements, the supporters of traditional racism have significantly decreased. However, racism, or more precisely, liberal racism, including its specific form - color-blind racism, has replaced traditional racism and still exists in large numbers in society. Racism seems to have found new ways of survival in anti-racism concepts such as liberal racism and color blindness. To analyze the new forms of racism that exist in today’s society, this article takes colorblindness racism as the analytical object. Starting from the dual role of color blindness in the anti-racism movement, it points out that a large number of new forms of racism are prevalent under the guise of anti-racism, revealing the challenges and limitations faced in current anti-racism activities in order to provide assistance for future anti-racism work.

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Published

2024-10-29