Understanding everyday racism
Report of a study on the everyday racism as experienced in everyday life, based on interviews with black women in California and Netherlands. Messed, assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam, provides a systematic analysis of racism in the Netherlands and the US. Based on a theoretical concept Everyday Racism she interprets the experiences of the interviewees. She works from the premise that racism is a structural component of the social system in Western-oriented societies and that it can not be conducted without a reconsideration of the values of the dominant, white group. This study looks at questions such as: how racism is experienced in everyday situations? How to recognize black people covered forms of racism? What kind of knowledge they have about racism? How this knowledge can be used in studying racism? The book is written for anyone who is interested in ethnic relations.