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oapen-20.500.12657-588702022-10-15T03:26:53Z Racism in Modern Russia Avrutin, Eugene M. Society culture racial studies race prejudice hate crimes modern history Russian history social history discrimination anti-racism anti-racist bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJD European history bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBL History: earliest times to present day::HBLW 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBL History: earliest times to present day::HBLX 21st century history: from c 2000 - In October 2013, one of the largest anti-migrant riots took place in Moscow. Clashes and arrests continued late into the night. Some in the crowd, which grew to several thousand people, could be heard chanting “Russia for the Russians” with their animus directed towards dark-skinned labor migrants from the southern border. The slogan “Russia for the Russians” is not a recent invention. It first gained notoriety in the very last years of the tsarist regime, appealing primarily to individuals drawn to the radical right. Analyzing a wide range of printed and visual sources, Racism in Modern Russia marks the first serious attempt to understand the history of racism over a span of 150 years. A brilliant examination of the complexities of racism, Eugene M. Avrutin’s panoramic book asks powerful questions about inequality and privilege, denigration and belonging, power and policy, and the complex historical links between race, whiteness, and geography. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license on www.bloomsburycollections.com. 2022-10-14T14:55:16Z 2022-10-14T14:55:16Z 2022 book ONIX_20221014_9781350097315_201 9781350097315 9781350097292 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58870 eng Russian Shorts application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781350097292.pdf Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Academic 10.5040/9781350097308 10.5040/9781350097308 066d8288-86e4-4745-ad2c-4fa54a6b9b7b 9781350097315 9781350097292 Bloomsbury Academic 160 London open access
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In October 2013, one of the largest anti-migrant riots took place in Moscow. Clashes and arrests continued late into the night. Some in the crowd, which grew to several thousand people, could be heard chanting “Russia for the Russians” with their animus directed towards dark-skinned labor migrants from the southern border. The slogan “Russia for the Russians” is not a recent invention. It first gained notoriety in the very last years of the tsarist regime, appealing primarily to individuals drawn to the radical right. Analyzing a wide range of printed and visual sources, Racism in Modern Russia marks the first serious attempt to understand the history of racism over a span of 150 years. A brilliant examination of the complexities of racism, Eugene M. Avrutin’s panoramic book asks powerful questions about inequality and privilege, denigration and belonging, power and policy, and the complex historical links between race, whiteness, and geography. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
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