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 Anti-racism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Due to prolonged racist resistance in the South, however, and a general collapse of idealism in the North, Reconstruction ended, and gave way to the nadir of American race relations.
Overall, conservative and right-wing groups in general typically consider anti-racism to be fueled by a leftist coalition between white guilt and identity politics.
On the contrary, they often charge the left with reverse racism, and insist that the right is the true inheritor of anti-racism's egalitarian tradition.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anti-racist   (1312 words)

  
 Information about Racist Bullying
Racist bullying can be identified by the motivation of the bully, the language used, and/or by the fact that victims are singled out because of the colour of their skin, the way they talk, their ethnic grouping or by their religious or cultural practices.
Racist violence, harassment and abuse are closely related to, and sometimes difficult to distinguish from, bullying.
Racist bullying in schools can range from ill-considered remarks, which are not intended to be hurtful, to deliberate physical attacks causing serious injury.
www.antibullying.net /racistinfotwo.htm   (980 words)

  
 Youth, Racist Violence and Anti-racist Responses in the Nordic Countries
The issue of racist violence and harassment was not taken seriously by local authorities, until a well-known Black American basketball player had to go home because of threats and maltreatment from gangs of youngsters in the town.
According to some media reports, the perpetrators of racist violence have shown their disgust of the system of justice and police with disorderly behaviour even in courts because of the inaction of the police.
The attitudes of the adult population seemed to be behind the actions of the youth, carrying out racist acts 'on their community's behalf'.
www.alli.fi /nuorisotutkimus/julkaisut/virtanen/1/11.html   (1232 words)

  
 Anti-Racist Action - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
ARA activists organize actions to disrupt neo-nazi and white supremacist groups and help to organize resistance mainly to fascist and racist ideologies.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anti-Racist_Action   (396 words)

  
 Anti-Racist Action Minneapolis
Racists like to take pictures of anti-racists so that they'll be able to identify them and attack them later on.
Racist groups like the Ku Klux Klan and the nazis have always been a major source of violence, and their tendency, like those of other bullies is to attack people they think are defenseless.
Try asking a racist to give you a scientifically-sound definition of human "races." That means they'd have to give a definite number of mutually-exclusive human races and explain exactly how a person can determine what race someone belongs to using scientific and objective criteria.
www.arampls.com /pages/faq.html   (3899 words)

  
 SECTION 3 - anti-racist action
As (the racists) began to move into these music scenes, they would turn the mosh pit from a place that used to be a real liberating experience into a war zone where most people were afraid to go, creating all kinds of tensions at shows.
It is a group of (mostly) hard-core and ska fans who have had it with racism and racists.
Ridding the planet of racists, bigots, homophobes, and womyn-haters is the first step.
www.section3.com /profiles/ara.shtml   (4228 words)

  
 Thompson / Anti-Racist Pedagogy -- Art or Propaganda?
While anti-racist pedagogy is specifically tied to schooling, it shares in some of the grand ambitions of the Harlem Renaissance with regard to the possibility of fostering genuinely egalitarian appreciation and conversation between Black and white Americans.
Insofar as education is conceived in terms of texts and curricula that, in and of themselves, correct racist attitudes and assumptions (setting aside any question of interests or power), it is conceived as a form of propaganda.
Yet appealing to an "independent standard" of the good on the grounds that education ought to confine itself to the realization of goodness and refuse to consort with the corrupt is, quite literally, utopian.
www.ed.uiuc.edu /EPS/PES-Yearbook/95_docs/thompson.html   (5765 words)

  
 Anti-Racist Policy
Racist behaviour, defined as any hostile or offensive act or expression by a person of one racial or ethnic origin against a person of another, or incitement to commit such an act, will not be tolerated in the University of Aberdeen.
Such behaviour includes derogatory name-calling, insults and racist jokes, racist graffiti, verbal abuse and threats, and ridicule of an individual for cultural differences in such matters as religion, dress, food or music.
The University will take all possible steps to protect staff and students from racist behaviour, verbal or physical, by any individual or group.
www.abdn.ac.uk /hr/policies/racepol.shtml   (277 words)

  
 Western Europe: Rights Groups Condemn Racist and Anti-Semitic Violence (Human Rights Watch, 10-5-2002)
In particular, the two international human rights organizations strongly condemn the wave of racist attacks against Arabs and anti-Semitic attacks against Jews, and call on West European governments to redouble their efforts to combat racism in all its forms and to bring to justice suspected perpetrators of hate crimes.
We also call on governments to make public the measures they are taking to combat racist and anti-Semitic violence, and to report to the public periodically the results of these efforts.
They follow a general rise in racist and xenophobic violence in Western Europe, particularly against Arabs and certain ethnic and religious minorities, which spiked sharply in the aftermath of the 11 September attacks in the United States.
hrw.org /press/2002/05/europe0510.htm   (883 words)

  
 Anti-racist mathematics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anti-racist mathematics is primarily concerned with the way in which mathematics is taught, although it also examines the contents of the curriculum to a lesser degree.
While 'anti-racist mathematics' and 'ethnomathematics' scholars share the assumption that any given mathematical understanding or practice is a product of a particular culture, the forms of their scholarship differ.
Cotton, A. Anti-racist mathematics teaching and the national curriculum.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anti-racist_mathematics   (883 words)

  
 Anti-Racist Action - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anti-Racist Action Network (ARA) is a decentralized network of anti-fascist and anti-racist activists.
ARA activists organize actions to disrupt neo-nazi and white supremacist groups and help to organize resistance mainly to fascist and racist ideologies.
The ARA staged a subsequent protest in Toronto outside the rented house of Heritage Front spokesman Gary Schipper.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anti-Racist_Action   (729 words)

  
 Minneapolis Anti-Racist Action
First, is the racist music scene, both the more mainstream metal bands and the overt fascist bullshit of groups on the Resistance label, like Bound for Glory.
For example, an important fight being waged right now is against the racist local utility, Northern States Power (NSP), and its plan to store its nuke waste next to a Sioux reservation in the Mississippi river flood plain.
In Minnesota the signs too are ominous, and our anti-fascist work has two specific areas of focus.
www.spunk.org /library/pubs/lr/sp001716/mplsara.html   (721 words)

  
 Anti-Racist Revolutions
The person engaged in active racist behavior has identified with the ideology of our White supremacist system and is moving with it.
Passive racist behavior is equivalent to standing still on the walkway.
Active racist behavior is equivalent to walking fast on the conveyor belt.
colours.mahost.org /articles/mcneill.html   (1427 words)

  
 238 What's Wrong with Anti-Racism
With this caricature in place that UU congregants are, like all whites, racists, the antiracists then, through careful and protracted training, call upon these congregants to confess their racism.
The anti-racist charge of white racism gives persons like Dan a way of addressing their moral failure of nerve without having to face a harder truth that they acted in racist ways not because they were racist but because they were afraid of being rejected.
I realized that being white for Dan was not a matter of racist conviction but a matter of survival, not a privilege but a penalty: the pound of flesh exacted for the right to be excluded from the excluded.
www.uua.org /ga/ga99/238thandeka.html   (3257 words)

  
 The Anti-Racist Pathology - Stormfront White Nationalist Community
Trying to tell the Anti-racist that he is being played for a damn fool and serving the interests of the most racist people on earth is like trying to talk to a brick wall.
Yes, the anti-racist is a testament to the powers of psychological warfare and I doubt that it is possible to make him see the errors of his ways.
I personally believe anti-racism to be a kind of mental illness, a form of self-hatred but with the aggression directed outward toward one's own race.
www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=16684   (857 words)

  
 ANTI-RACIST COMMUNITY WORK - A RADICAL APPROACH
Challenging racist languages and terms has laid the anti-racist movement open to being accused of attempting to be the thought police, curtailing free speech and denying common sense.
However the confusion of the Left on anti-racism and political correctness is an altogether more tragic affair in that the fear of challenging racist language has also led to a fear of challenging the assumptions built into our ordinary use of language and its implications.
Whilst it is important to be able to quote statistics of racist incidents and to point to the effects of racism as evidenced by the extent of racial disadvantage, it is equally important life of the communities we work within today.
www.edchange.org /multicultural/papers/malcolm1.html   (3433 words)

  
 Mpls Anti-Racist Action
Anti-Racist Action(ARA) is a network of youth based anti-racist groups across North America dedicated to fighting all forms of racism.
We oppose and fight things like the racist institution of the police as well as organized racist groups like the klan and nazi skinheads.
We belive the only way racism is gonna get smashed is by doing it ourselves!!So we not about relying on the courts or the cops...
www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/Lobby/2853   (104 words)

  
 anti-racist features
a strong action component to oppose racist attitudes and behaviour: experience of practical actions to challenge intolerance; linking issues of racism to everyday life, to the media and to citizens' rights.
an explicit commitment to understanding issues of race, difference and commonality: exploring definitions and debates around issues of race; exploring the histories of different races and how they have become intertwined; challenging attitudes and theories of racial superiority and inferiority; challenging racist behaviour and promoting attitudes and structures to sustain tolerance.
www.tidec.org /essential-learning/features-anti-race.html   (183 words)

  
 Poisoning the Web - Don Black: White Pride World Wide
Attached to these articles are the racist and anti-Semitic comments of Vincent Breeding, NNA editor and National Alliance activist of Tampa, Florida.
Despite the fact that Black's racist and anti-Semitic views were clearly reported in a pre-recorded introduction, the program gave him the opportunity to market these views in a mainstream forum.
In addition to text articles, early versions of Stormfront housed a library of neo-Nazi graphics available for downloading, a list of phone numbers for racist computer bulletin boards that were not on the Internet, and a short page of links to other hateful Web sites.
www.adl.org /poisoning_web/black.asp   (1698 words)

  
 I CARE - Crosspoint Anti Racism
The concern at this apparent electoral progress for an overtly racist party united national black organisations, anti-racists, trade unions, churches and faiths and many other organisations in a campaign to mobilise anti-racist opinion.
The wide coalition formed around this issue was established in the National Assembly Against Racism as an umbrella of affiliates and individual members to initiate campaigns, set agendas and raise awareness on the whole range of anti-racist issues affecting British society.
Founded after the racist murder of Akhtar Ali Baig in 1980, Newham Monitoring Project (NMP) is a grassroots, community based organisation, providing independent help and support to members of the black community who are on the receiving end of racial and civil injustice.
www.magenta.nl /crosspoint/uk.html   (3578 words)

  
 Sociological Research Online
This anti-racist guidance needs to be seen in the context of a general commitment to anti-racism since may words can be racist or anti-racist depending upon the context in which they are used.
However this is not a useful term for referring to ethnic groups which have been in Britain since the early post-war period and in the British context has racist overtones, being associated with immigration legislation.
We recognise that the BSA is a predominantly white organisation existing within a national culture which has evolved out of and still embodies many racist ideologies.
www.socresonline.org.uk /info/antirac.html   (1921 words)

  
 Anti-racist mathematics -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
Vance, M. Biology teaching in a racist society.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/an/anti-racist_mathematics.htm   (347 words)

  
 ANTI-RACIST TELEPHONE HOTLINES
It might be interesting to know how many hang-ups you get, how much racist abuse, etc. Consider reporting this to the police, either to make them do something about it or to make them aware of the seriousness of the problem.
A racist embarks on a holiday in a neighbouring country.
She wants to press charges against the racist behaviour of one of the police officers.
www.united.non-profit.nl /pages/info15.htm   (2828 words)

  
 North Jersey ARA
An anti-racist convergence will be held August 27, 2005 starting at 11:30 at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Essex County 35/47 Cleveland Street, Orange, New Jersey.
Among the discussions will be on the recent activity of racist groups in the state of New Jersey.
This convergence will be an opportunity to meet with and hear from those who want to try to fight these particular elements.
www.anti-racist.org   (449 words)

  
 CASSW: Anti-racist Training and Materials Project
Mukherjee, A. From racist to anti racist education: A synopic view (Unpublished Paper).
Frankenberg, R. White women, racism, and anti racism: A women's studies course exploring racism and privilege.
Gold, N. Putting anti-Semitism on the anti-racism agenda in North American schools of social work.
www.mun.ca /cassw-ar/themes/race/antiracism   (1777 words)

  
 portland imc - 2004.12.07 - Call Out For Anti-Racist Groups/People!!!! ACTION NEEDED!!!!
A racist group, the Tualatin Valley Skins, will be trying to distribute 10,000 flyers of racist material for their "Flyer Outreach Contest." This group has flyered Portland, Eugene, Tualatin, Sherwood, Tigard and Beaverton.
This is an organisation which has waged many successful militant campaigns against racists in the past.
PORTLAND, OR --...Several times this year, racist fliers and CDs have been distributed in Tigard in an apparent effort to recruit young people to the cause.
portland.indymedia.org /en/2004/12/305449.shtml   (4469 words)

  
 Calypso Productions: an anti racist classroom
Ensuring that our children are educated in an atmosphere that challenges and helps overcome racist views can begin with such simple measures as the teacher's choice of posters on the classroom walls and the choice of projects for school work.
They may use language which is racist or express opinions which are based on prejudice.
Of course many students will bring a certain prejudicial baggage with them to the classroom.
homepage.eircom.net /~calypso/racism/class.html   (1078 words)

  
 ANTI-RACIST ACTION WATCH
Standard ARA technique is to call anyone that opposes them as a racist and a nazi, of course, that is merely in keeping with the left wing politically correct practice of calling anyone that opposes you a racist and a nazi.
The ARA is even able to secure grants from politicians eagar to be seen as tough on racism, they also recieve a massive amount of respect and leniency from police and courts, no one wants that nazi label pinned on them.
Thus many people turn a blind eye to the actions and activities of groups such as the ARA.
www.niagara.com /~freedom/ara/ara.htm   (1300 words)

  
 Welcome to ARA: Anti Racist Alliance
The ARA also organises a major summer event called ARAfest — which is a free open-air anti-racist festival aimed at promoting an anti-racist culture, especially among young people.The ARA has a network of local groups all over the country, and has sections such as Youth ARA, Trade Union ARA, Teachers ARA and Parliamentary ARA.
The ARA organises campaigns locally and nationally against racist murders, attacks and harassment, and has held major national events such as the conference entitled "Community Action, Legal Remedies" on 14 November 1992, to discuss legislative reform including the need to make racial violence a specific criminal offence.
A short film about racist violence entitled 'Wonder World' was launched last year, which starred Patrick Robinson who plays 'Ash' in BBC1's 'Casualty'.
www.blacknet.co.uk /youthara/section1.htm   (393 words)

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