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RACISM and ANTI-RACISM IN IRELAND


Edited by Ronit Lentin and Robbie McVeigh

This book is about the fundamental injustice of racism 
and the dangers it represents for Irish society. It is the first 
collection of writings by activists and academics to take 
seriously international commitments to combat racism, 
most recently expressed in the World Conference against 
Racism held in Durban, South Africa.

Despite the plethora of newspaper articles and radio and 
television programmes on new manifestations of racism in 
Irish society, there is no authoritative academic text that 
students and other interested parties can refer to in the Irish 
context. This book of fifteen chapters fills this theoretical and 
pedagogical gap.

The book situates racisms in Ireland, and makes sense of how 
and why Irish society has become racialized. More simply, 
it asks how it is possible that racism has become normalised 
in Ireland. In the process of normalising racialisation, shocking 
things have been said in recent years about racialised minority 
ethnic groups, culminating in the killing of a Chinese student, 
Zhao Liu Tao, in Dublin in January 2002. These physical and verbal 
attacks have not usually come from organised fascist or racist 
movements like in other European countries, but have emerged 
from 'ordinary' members of the public, as well journalists, politicians 
and writers. Moreover, there has been no shortage of people eager to 
defend the right to say such things.


234 x 156mm
256pp.  

ISBN 1-900960-16-8       Price  £10.99