ABSTRACT
As early as 1987 Paul Gilroy found ‘anti-racist strategy’ to be highly problematic. Bob Miles (1993) contemplated racism – and the fight against it – beyond the ‘race relations paradigm’ which has dominated the British anti-racist movement in some form or another since the 1960s. Michel Wieviorka (1997) has argued that following the rise of new racism, which does not necessarily use the terminology of ‘race’, it is not easy to detect, as it used to be, the difference between racists and anti-racists. In the 1990s ‘racism is said to be everywhere, including among those whose intention it is to combat it; the references are confused while, at the same time, the evil is perceived as gaining ground’ (1997: 141).
