Race and Racism in Russia [electronic resource] /
Zakharov, N.author.
Race and Racism in Russia identifies the striking changes in racial ideas, practices, exclusions and violence in Russia since the 1990s, revealing how 'Russianness' has become a synonym for racial whiteness. This ground-breaking book provides new theories and substantive insights into race and ethnicity in a Russian context.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Global Racis ms and Racism in Russia: An Introduction; From historical legacies to sociological challenges: the Russian case; Mapping the previous research; Outline of the book; 2 Race and Racism in the Russian Past; Racism in Russian history, or racialization of the past?; Race and racism in Imperial Russia; Soviet representations of otherness and discourses of race; 3 Race, Racialization and Racism: A New Theoretical Framework; Racism as the contested attribute of modernity; Black asses and bright souls: ontologies of race
Racialization as making, doing, and becomingRacial knowledge in Russia: hybridity, the Third World, and human material; 4 Making Race in the Russian Academia; Against 'political correctness': racial knowledge in the works of Alexander Zinoviev and Victor Kozlov; Valeriy Solovey and Vladimir Avdeev: the search for racial 'Russianness'; Rasovedenie against rasologiya: physical anthropology's concept of 'race without prejudices'; From the ethics of authenticity to the new biopolitics; 5 Rioting for Whiteness: Doing Race on the Squares of Moscow
Understanding the anti-immigrant movement and its collective actionHealing the trauma: the authorities' responses to Manezhnaya Square and Biryulevo riots; 'Doing race': in search of racists; 6 Becoming Racial: Race as a New Form of Inequality; The new economic order: from racialized capital to racialized labor; Representation of migrants as a security problem; Becoming racial, doing race: negotiations of 'blackness' and 'whiteness' by racialized minorities in Russia; 7 Geopolitics of Racism and the Nation-Building Processes; Empire and whiteness: symbolic economies of difference
'Postcolonial in a cold climate': Russia as a colonized colonizerThe nation-building processes: ambivalences in the uses of racial knowledge; 8 Concluding Discussion; Notes; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Race and Racism in Russia identifies the striking changes in racial ideas, practices, exclusions and violence in Russia since the 1990s, revealing how 'Russianness' has become a synonym for racial whiteness. This ground-breaking book provides new theories and substantive insights into race and ethnicity in a Russian context.
Ethnology—Europe.
Social sciences—Philosophy.
Sociology.
Ethnicity.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Crime—Sociological aspects.
European Culture.
Social Theory.
Sociology, general.
Ethnicity Studies.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.
Crime and Society.