Patel, Kamna;
(2024)
Race and Racism.
In: Warf, Barney, (ed.)
The Encyclopedia of Human Geography.
(pp. 1-5).
Springer Nature: Cham, Switzerland.
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Abstract
The idea of “race” is integral to a wide range of historic, social, economic, and political projects, making it a foundational concept to understand our contemporary world and our place in it. These projects include transatlantic slavery, European colonialism, imperialism, neocolonialism, global capitalism, domestic governance, and international development, and projects that require unequal power relations between groups of people and where “race” is instrumentalized to create and sustain a hierarchy of inferior and superior bodies, knowledge and value. The racial identities paramount to making such racist hierarchies are not founded in biological difference but in social, cultural, and political forces that aim, or otherwise end up engaged in processes of racialization, to craft and assign a racial identity and position to groups of people. This means that there cannot be a singular universal experience or outcome of racism. Because of the myriad ways in which racialization occurs,...
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | Race and Racism |
| ISBN-13: | 978-3-031-25900-5 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-031-25900-5_320-1 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25900-5_320-1 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author-accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Development Planning Unit |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10195063 |
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