New Racisms, New Anti-Racisms
3-4 November 2006
"On one hand, racism no longer really exists and on the other, never has there been more racism" - Etienne Balibar
The Research Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sydney, along with the Australian Human Rights Commission presented this conference examining new anti-racism strategies aimed at addressing the evolving nature of racism.
While racism as an ideological belief in a hierarchy of biological races has lost its coherence and has very few adherents today, the word is still used to denote the multitude of ways in which human beings are marginalised, demeaned, threatened, excluded and de-humanised on the basis of the way they look or a devalorisation of their group identity. The multitude of forms that racism takes today makes it more difficult than ever to formulate anti-racist strategies that are capable of countering its slippery nature.
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