Beschreibung:
Race and Racism in Russia identifies the striking changes in racial ideas, practices, exclusions and violence in Russia since the 1990s, revealing how 'Russianness' has become a synonym for racial whiteness. This ground-breaking book provides new theories and substantive insights into race and ethnicity in a Russian context.
1. Global Racisms and Racism in Russia: An Introduction 2. Race and Racism in the Russian Past 3. Race, Racialization, and Racism: A New Theoretical Framework 4. Making Race in the Russian Academia 5. Rioting for Whiteness: Doing Race on the Squares of Moscow 6. Becoming Racial: Race As a New Form of Inequality 7. Geopolitics of Racism and the Nation-Building Processes 8. Concluding Discussion