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01 SES 08 C, Understanding Teaching
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Contribution
Racism is a societal imbalance relationship which structures social order, with social practices of difference, the construction of social groups and social meanings and inclusions and exclusions.
When looking at the mechanisms, attributions and manifestations of racism in Germany, global, European and national “lines of tradition” and histories of racism have a powerful effect. If one speaks about racism in Germany, its specific expressions and effects, the history of racism in Germany needs to be taken into consideration.
Studies show that racism today is institutionalised in institutions of education and social work and in the actions of professionals (Melter 2006, Flam 2007, Gomolla/Radtke 2007).
The focus of this paper will be on a reconstruction of a racist normality in Germany, constantly present as a societal relationship in the every day life of people to whom a migration history is attributed, as everyday occurrence and manifested in normalised practices of differentiation, isolation and exclusion. The analytic perspective of this paper will be on the subjective experience and interpretation and consequent strategies of action and negotiation of those persons, whose everyday life is negatively impacted by racism.
I will reconstruct that the present experience, interpretation and action with regard to everyday racism in Germany is subtle but closely interconnected to the history of racism and Migration in Germany and its discourses, with regard to speaking about experiences of racism as well as adequate reactions to racism by professionals of social work and education.
In the international context of the conference it will be interesting to discuss with other european researchers different European discourse lines of racism and their influence on todays understanding of and acting on racism.
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