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Racialization in the Nordic Countries: An Introduction

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This chapter conveys some of the crucial changes in the Nordic scene and some of the central forces in global populism and enhanced inequalities that are played out in the Nordic countries. The chapter explains how the authors, who are researchers of racism and racialization, are responding to the changing conditions around them. This includes reflections on their discomfort with how different groups are racialized, especially in the critical media events and incidents saturated with unspoken and outspoken racist slurs and racializing thought.

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    I use this term as a shorthand for the dominance of racism against people of color in research and everyday conversations, acknowledging that there are other broad categories and forms of racism, and that “race” and “color” legally are not identical.

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    As part of that project, I taught a course on racism to anthropology students at the University of Copenhagen in 1996, and by arbitrary circumstances, I also taught the first course on racism at the anthropology institute at the University of Oslo in 1999.

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