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The term "cyber racism" was coined by Les Back in 2002[1] to capture the phenomenon of racism online, particularly white supremacist web sites. The term encompasses racist rhetoric that is distributed through computer-mediated means and includes some or all of the following characteristics: Ideas of racial uniqueness, nationalism and common destiny; racial supremacy, superiority and separation; conceptions of racial otherness; and anti-establishment world-view.
The significance of cyber racism is that it makes racist rhetoric easily accessible to anyone with an Internet connection.
References
- ^ Back, L. (2002). Aryans Reading Adorno: Cyber-culture and Twenty-first Century Racism, Ethnic and Racial Studies. 25(4), 628–51.
Further reading
- Daniels, Jessie (1997), White Lies: Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality in White Supremacist Discourse, Routledge, New York, NY.
- Daniels, Jessie (2009), Cyber Racism: White Supremacy Online and the New Attack on Civil Rights, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD.
- Daniels, Jessie, http://www.jessiedanielsphd.com/
- Cyber racism blog at Racism Review. http://www.racismreview.com/blog/tag/cyber-racism/
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