Widersprüche

Racisms represent a challenge for anti-racism. In theory formation as well as in the practice of educational and social work, it is a matter of mediating the various levels of diverse everyday racisms on a micro level, through forms of institutional discrimination, to the very different forms in which these racisms go hand in hand with socio-structurally anchored forms of social exclusion, oppression and exploitation. The self-claim to expose racism harbours the risk of losing sight of those affected by racism in a concrete and specific way or only seeing them as victims of such racist practices or conditions in a de-subjectivised way. In addition, action in education and social work is often exhausted by a moralising attitude on the part of professionals who, on a discursive level, call for sensitising, politically correct language, but lose sight of other racist inequalities in the process.