Racism
Individual Racism: Individual racism can include face-to-face or covert actions toward a person that intentionally express prejudice, hate or bias based on race.
Structural Racism: A system in which public policies, institutional practices, cultural representations, and other norms work in various, often reinforcing ways to perpetuate racial group inequity. It identifies dimensions of our history and culture that have allowed privileges associated with “whiteness” and disadvantages associated with “color” to endure and adapt over time. Structural racism is not something that a few people or institutions choose to practice. Instead it has been a feature of the social, economic and political systems in which we all exist.
(The Aspen Institute, https://assets.aspeninstitute.org/content/uploads/files/content/docs/rcc/RCC-Structural-Racism-Glossary.pdf, 7.5.20)
The links give an overview of the topic of racism
- Racism-critical measures at the University of Cologne
https://vielfalt.uni-koeln.de/en/anti-racism
- Video collection on „Systemic Racism“, raceforward
https://www.raceforward.org/videos/systemic-racism
- Explaining White Privilege, Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre (ACLRC)
http://www.aclrc.com/white-privilege
Everyday Racism
What?! I'm not racist!
...is a subtle and widespread form of racism that is often underestimated. In the following you will find explanations and field reports on the subject of everyday racism.
Experiences of everyday racism in Germany
Everyday Racism in Germany, redfish
An everyday dimension of racism: Why we need to understand microaggressions, Keele Univeristy
Confronting racism in higher education
Confronting racism in higher education, Times Higher Education (THE)
Corona und Anti-Asian racism
Since the outbreak of the Corona pandemic, cases of anti-Asian racism have also been increasingly observed in Germany. The following link will take you to a page that provide information on the topic. On social medie, the hastags #iamnotavirus or #imnotavirus also are being used to share experiences.
- Article "Covid-19 Fueling Anti-Asian Racism and Xenophobia Worldwide", Human Rights Watch
https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/05/12/covid-19-fueling-anti-asian-racism-and-xenophobia-worldwide
Experiences of racism at the UoC
The #unboxingdiscrimination campaign collected and shared experiences and observations of racism at the UoC.
