Alles Rassismus?: Ressentiments in der Einwanderungsgesellschaft - Hardcover

Tezcan, Levent

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3835391755 ISBN 13: 9783835391758

Publisher: Konstanz University Press, 2024

Synopsis

Criticism of racism is ubiquitous. But what happens when allegations are systematically overdrawn and everyday banalities are challenged with the same verve as racially motivated crime? Does criticism not lose its effect and the phenomenon its contours? Levent Tezcan presents a pointed polemic against an excited debate that heats the minds in perpetual loop. All racism pursues the question of why racial distinctions have economic momentum even beyond xenophobic discourses. The medialised critique of racism is currently offered as a new large-scale narrative in which subjects as marginalised people stand against the privileged and skin colour becomes the new reference point. Tezcan places the increasing use of racial distinctions in the context of the affect economy of Western societies, in which a shift of strength and weakness takes place. The vulnerables that should be helped to gain visibility are now just, not least by the demand for migrant quotas. However, the provocative thesis of the book is actually promoted, especially resentment - and in the minorities as with the majority. The actual danger for the democratically composed societies does not originate from "everyday racism" and its micro-aggressions, but from a racist policy that is again on the rise in Europe.

Edition details

• Publisher: Konstanz University Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 3835391755
• ISBN 13: 9783835391758
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160