Cultural racism: The intersection of race and culture in intergroup conflict

Abstract

(from the book) Offers a theoretical perspective on race, culture, and intergroup relations that unites many of the ideas in the foregoing chapters. Most analyses of racism have defined it as a belief in the biological inferiority of others (most commonly, African Americans) compared to the self (most commonly, European Americans). In doing so, they have ignored what the present author terms "cultural racism": the belief that another's culture is inferior to one's own. He argues that recent attempts to combat biological racism have left cultural racism relatively intact. He describes the nature of cultural racism and examines its consequences for African Americans and for race relations in the US. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2000 APA, all rights reserved)