ABSTRACT
The debates about ‘new’ or cultural racism have been around for a long time (since at least Martin Barker’s famous 1981 book) and have found new invigoration through studies of the phenomenon of Islamophobia. This chapter approaches the idea of new racism in a broader sense, examining transformations of racism in the post-1960s era, including discussions of new or cultural racism, arguments about the ‘post-racial’, about ‘colour-blind’ racism, and about ‘racism without racists’. It discusses examples of new racism in postcolonial societies, such as Singapore; and in Japan. In these examples, racism scholars have sought to redress the focus of racism studies on the white/black binary by examining racism among and between non-white peoples and co-ethnics – broadly investigating non-colour-coded forms of racism. The final section analyses what is old and what is new in Islamophobia.
