Consequences of Racism Measures to Deal with Racism

Apartheid, Intercultural Approach:

Anti-Semitism
Encourages cross cultural understanding and communication between people and nations.
Ableism
It tries to sanitize people to the understanding of the cultural roots of ones own behaviour as
Bigotry well as the richness of all cultures. Cultural identity and ethnicity are the focus. Gender and
Cultural Appropriation sexual orientation is explored within the context culture and tradition, but not within the
Cultural Racism framework of power and oppression. It is mostly used to helping immigrants adjust to life in
Distortions of Historical, Genetic / Archeological Research Data; Facts and their new country.
Information
Distorted Racial Assumptions on White Superiority and Black Inferiority Legal Compliance Approach
Demonization of Assumed Ethnic / Racial target group / minorities
Focuses on Affirmative Action; Employment Equity; Equal Opportunities. It is based on
Demeaning Sexual Comments / Remarks
legal theory, civil rights law and human resources development strategies. The ultimate aim
Demeaning Ethnic / Racial Comments / Jokes / Insults / Slur (Direct or indirect) is to enforce legal compliance to achieve Colour Blindness and Non Sexism. Legal
Discriminatory Assessment Tools compliance deals exclusively with laws, regulations and legal requirements to enforce legal
Demeans / Denigrades / Stigmatizes the Targeted Group / Minority compliance. The contradictions here is that Affirmative Action is a colour conscious
Roots of Racism Degraded / Diminished Moral Status approach. Legal compliance approach is more regulatory and punitive than transformative,
Demeans / Denigrades / Stigmatizes the targeted group / Minority / Majority but to a large extend civil rights law and class action are mostly effective in dealing with
o Caste System Exploitation, Marginalization, Powerlessness, Cultural Imperialism, and Violence powerful interest groups.
o Capitalism Ethnic / Racial Discrimination
o Coercive Power Ethnic / Racial Domination Managing Diversity Approach
o Colonialism Ethnic Racial Bias
Focuses on understanding and managing the changing organisational demographics.
o Cultural Identity Ethnic / Racial Bullying Training programmes focuses on (business) organisational policies, procedures, attitudes
o Cultural Domination Ethnic / Racial Separation / Segregation / Dispossession and behaviours, stereotypes and prejudice which affect hiring, promotional decisions and
o Distortion of Human History / Events Ethnic / Racial / Gender Inequality undermines organisational effectiveness, productivity, profitability and sustainability. Racism
o Ethnic / Racial Categorization Ethnic / Racial Profiling and sexism are addressed to reduce their impact on the bottom line. Diversity is dealt with
o Ethnic / Race Cleansing as a business issue rather than a legal, political, social and moral issue affecting all the
Ethnic / Racist Hate Speech / Remarks / Comments
o Ethnic / Race Purity citizens of a country.
Ethnic / Racial Prejudice
o Ethnic / Race / Tribal Ideology
Ethnic / Racial Stereotypes / Myths / Labelling / Prejudice Reduction Approach
o Family Ethnic / Racial Social Orientation
o Economic Ideology Ethnic / Racial Name Calling
Kaffir / Darkie / Coconut / Boy / Girl / Native / Black The approach is based on the Prejudice Reduction Model, which asserts that human beings
o Economic Power
Coolie are born with tremendous intellectual and emotional potential but that these qualities
o Export Power
Boesman / Hotnot / Coloured / Bushy / Racist become blocked and obscured as we grow older from - distress experiences. This
o Institutional Power
- People of colour / Ethnic / Racial / Tribal Minorities approach focuses on promoting emotional release, sharing of personal stories about how
o Imperialism
White / White Trash / Dutchman / Racist you were hurt by prejudice and bigotry. The focus on personal hurt may assist some but
o Legitimate Power
Ethnocentrism neglect the impact of institutional racism.
o National Socialism
Ethnic / Racial micro aggressions daily
o Nationalism
Ethnic / Racial Demoralization Valuing the Difference Approach
o Patriarchy
o Personal Power Ethnic / Racial Disparities
Fascist The approach is considered similar to the Managing Diversity Approach. The approach
o Political Power recognizes, value and celebrates human differences. The approach asserts that the solution
o Political Ideology Genocide
of diversity can be solved by learning about ourselves and one another. The approach
o Rankism Gender Oppression
emphasizes the building of relationships across lines of differences and recognizing the
o Religious Intolerance & Prejudice / Wars Homophobia
importance of the diverse work team. The difficulties of this approach is that unique histories
o Religious Crusades Human Rights Violations and experiences of victims of racism and discrimination may be obscured and diluted,
o Reward Power Institutional Racism issues of privilege and entitlement may not be critically examined.
o Referent Power Institutionalized Inequality
o Superstitions / Social Myths / Internalized Racism / Internalized Supremacy / internalized Oppression Anti Racism Approach
o Social Class / Status Islamophobia Ethnic / Racial Wars
o Tribal Affiliations Misconception of Historical, Genetic / Archeological Research Data; Facts and The approach is rooted in both the civil and human rights activities in the USA as well as
o Tribal Superiority Information internationally. This approach is based on the understanding of the history of racism,
o Tribal / Ethnic Folklore Nazism oppression segregation, and institutional racism. The goal of this approach is to achieve
o Wars of Conquest Racial / Sexual Oppression / Harassment improved interpersonal relations between people of different races, restructuring of power
Religious Minorities relations. This approach emphasizes the role of activism in dealing with issues relating to
Racist and Sexist Laws, Regulations, Policies and Procedures racism and discrimination
Structural Racism / structural Oppression Anti Racism Training
Structural Inequality
Slavery It was developed during the 1940, 1950 and 1960 to deal with racism. It included race
White Privilege & Supremacy relations training. The training programme focused on training whites on black & white
Poverty issues of racism, but the approach was confrontational and avoided handling issues relating
The Holocaust to sexism and
Voting Rights Restrictions heterosexualism. The new version of the approach holds that: the core culture and
Xenophobia institutional structure must fundamentally change, while recognizing that changes in our
Zionism personal attitudes are also essential. The approach examines the parallels, intersections,
and distinctions between all forms of oppression, but the focus remains on issues of racism
and white supremacy. It brings out concepts of dominant group privilege, internalized
oppression, anti racism, dominant and oppressed group members and makes connection
to other form of oppression.