Antiracism

Guide to oppressions & intersections in SF
Basics: Classism Racism Nationalism, colonialism, xenophobia Religious intolerance Antisemitism Sexism Homophobia & heterosexism Size & beauty standards Disability & ableism Ageism
Manifestations: Institutionalized, systemic, structural Unconscious Conscious Internalized Power relations
Responses: Activism: Antiracism, feminism, etc. Consciousness-raising Redress & affirmative action Diversity & representation
SFnal treatments: Race and feminist SF Race-and-gender stereotypes in SF
See also: Women of color in SF Queer women in SF Women Make SF
About the GOI

Antiracism is, broadly, opposition to racism, and specifically, a strain of activism and analysis within broader movements for justice and equality.

As a North American social activist identity, "antiracist" implies efforts to be conscious of the multifarious ways in which race operates in society, its intersections with other areas of oppression, and a strong effort to eliminate the effects of race in society. Antiracism is closely related to other critical theoretical and activist movements such as the race treason movement, named after the ethnic slur attached to white people who worked with or helped people of color and popularized by the journal Race Traitor); critical race theory, a critical legal studies movement that seeks to closely examine the philosophical and legal significance of "race", and its impacts on the lives of individuals; and "critical whiteness studies", which take a critical, postcolonialist, and gender studies approach to race by critically examining the category, from the perspective not just of the oppressed class but of the oppressor class.

Further reading

• Memoirs of a Race Traitor by Mab Segrest
• Erase Racism Carnival