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A 2011 study shows that racism against sub-saharan people is strongly influenced by its colonial history. [1] Today racism is present in all 3 main regions of Belgium, specially in Flanders, and widespread in the society: [2] [3] in the police, [4] [5] in schools, [6] [7] in sport activities, [8] on the streets, [9] in public institutions, [10 ...
The word "race", interpreted to mean an identifiable group of people who share a common descent, was introduced into English in the 16th century from the Old French rasse (1512), from Italian razza: the Oxford English Dictionary cites the earliest example around the mid-16th century and defines its early meaning as a "group of people belonging to the same family and descended from a common ...
A "Roman" identity did not suggest a given skin tone, rather it referred to an ever-shifting set of cultural traditions, growing more eclectic in later Roman history, to which inherited physical characteristics were of no relevance. [21] [22]
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Lindqvist explores the history of European racism from the late eighteenth century to the twentieth century. In the same vein as Edward Said's Orientalism, Lindqvist contextualizes Conrad's Heart of Darkness and examines the impact of European explorers, theologians, politicians, and historians on the development of racist ideologies.
Hanging from a highway bridge in Madrid, an effigy of one of the world’s most famous Black soccer players stands as a graphic reminder of the racism that sweeps through European soccer. In Italy ...
European soccer is fighting bigotry that has sullied the sport. But officials appear to have overlooked a key contributor whipping up racism, writes Keith Magee.
The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) noted in 2001, in its second report on the situation of the approximately 9% non- citizen population after German reunification: (…) that, in spite of the considerable number of non-citizens who have been living in Germany for a long time or even from birth, there was a reluctance ...