(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #225 - The anti-colonialist Dico: What is "racism postcolonial"? (fr)

Each month, a word or phrase vetted by Gisele. ---- Point the colonial origins of certain 
contemporary forms of racism leads to evoke the colonial and slave systems. Institutions, 
practices, discourses and representations developed under the French colonial empire in 
the bedrock. The colonial past of France undeniable mark of a footprint the vocabulary of 
cooperation, immigration, integration and memory. In addition, discrimination against 
immigrants and their descendants down-es from countries colonized tend to perpetuate from 
one generation to another, a sign of deep-seated racism that goes well beyond the 
xenophobia against the latest and last-come-es. Should be distinguish xenophobic stigma 
that exists in an exaggerated form for newcomers, and stigma racist representations which 
crystallizes much more deeply rooted and persistent with the renewal of generations and 
their roots in France.

This construction of the figure inf?riorisante obviously suspicious and threatening 
e-immigrant creates situations of domination, exclusion and social relegation. The 
negation of a continuous production process of discrimination masks the systemic and 
institutional. It is the transmission of a social imagination from the settlement that 
serves prism apprehension of the reality. Mechanism ethnicization and essentialization 
culturalist is implemented to impose French and French colonization from an injunction 
invisibility and apolitical. Otherwise, they are "guilty" in the case, refusal of 
integration. Thus, the system reproduces the same postcolonial operations division and 
subdivision of individuals was that the colonial system: a mass to educate and integrate 
mass to suppress an elite to promote women's "emancipation." That there is a postcolonial 
racism is not to say that racism is the only work. Emphasize the colonial origins of some 
forms of racism is not to deny the existence of others. Talking about racism postcolonial 
is no claim that the descendants and the descendants of colonized-es live in a situation 
identical to that of their ancestors, but say an affiliation or inheritances.

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