Ethnocentric, everyday racism

An outline of a conceptualisation of racism

Abstrakti

After the UNESCO declaration in 1960s stating that the concept ‘race’ is biologically and scientifically flawed, the concept of racism has been challenged and modified in several different ways. According to the classical definition of racism, valid primarily for the period before the UNESCO declaration, racism is:

the doctrine that a man’s behaviour is determined by stable inherited characters deriving from separate racial stocks having distinctive attributes and usually considered to stand to one another in relations of superiority and inferiority. (Banton, 1970, 18 in Miles, 1989, 47)