Author: Kwesi Kwaa Prah (ed.)
ISBN No: 1-919799-77-X
Cost: 246.24
The term racism refers to beliefs, attitudes, practices and social behaviour based on racial categories that disadvantageously discriminate against groups and individuals. But racism hardly exists independent of power differentials; it invariably implies the social power to exercise privilege over those treated in the racist order of things as inherently inferior. Sometimes the term is used to describe the assumption that certain biologically inherited characteristics are the key determinants of human abilities, and that people should be treated in accordance with racial criteria. Racial prejudice, in turn, consists of an assemblage of internalised scientifically ungrounded assumptions on which bases people are stereotyped in as far as their social behaviours are concerned. Sometimes racism is socially overt; at other times and in other instances it takes covert form. In its most virulent societal contexts it is given legal institutionalization or highly routinised social expression.
ISBN No: 1-919799-77-X
Cost: 246.24
The term racism refers to beliefs, attitudes, practices and social behaviour based on racial categories that disadvantageously discriminate against groups and individuals. But racism hardly exists independent of power differentials; it invariably implies the social power to exercise privilege over those treated in the racist order of things as inherently inferior. Sometimes the term is used to describe the assumption that certain biologically inherited characteristics are the key determinants of human abilities, and that people should be treated in accordance with racial criteria. Racial prejudice, in turn, consists of an assemblage of internalised scientifically ungrounded assumptions on which bases people are stereotyped in as far as their social behaviours are concerned. Sometimes racism is socially overt; at other times and in other instances it takes covert form. In its most virulent societal contexts it is given legal institutionalization or highly routinised social expression.
