Red Racisms and After: The Promise, the Logics, the Prospects

Abstract

This book has examined the connections between racism and communism in four regions which comprise a fifth of the world’s population: the Russian Federation, selected countries in Central and Eastern Europe (Hungary, Romania, the Czech Republic and Slovakia), Cuba and the People’s Republic of China (PRC), as well as considering the nature and significance of pre-communist and post-communist contexts for patterns of racialisation. This chapter synthesises some key themes arising from the past four chapters. It will consider the interconnections, linkages and interactions of logics and processes of racialisation as well as the similarities and differences between them. This involves maintaining a careful balance between specifying both the autonomous forms of ideas, behaviour and practices and identifying the complex interconnections, interrelations and intersections between Russian, Chinese, Cuban and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) racialisation and those processes operating elsewhere in Europe, Asia and America. It will also assess these cases in relation to the contemporary formation of racial neo-liberalism (Goldberg 2008), and also the prospects for antiracism and the post-racial.