Exploring the Decline and Revival of Anti-Racism

With the decline and apparent death of the race concept in anthropology it seems to be assumed that attention to racism is not necessary, a situation referred to as being “color blind” (Harrison 1995; Shanklin 1999; Mukhopadhayay and Moses 1997). Mistakenly, we and others thought that by rejecting biological race, racialization and racism in American science and society would be diminished. In this paper we will explore the context for the apparent decline and the revival of anti-racism, involving political, organizational, linguistic and other cultural influences.