Racism: A Part of History That Has Never Been Lost

There have been many cases of racism in its history that have occurred from ancient times to the present. Many factors cause racial conflicts. Factors that often trigger these actions, among others, are due to injustice, oppression, and racial discrimination by certain groups against other groups. In America itself, the era of slavery was a dark period in American history. This article aims to find out the impact and solutions to the problem of racism in general. How to find out the impact and solution to the problem of racism is to examine some of the cases that have occurred recently. The method used in this research is qualitative-descriptive with a literature review method to analyze data with 20 sources from books, journal articles, theses and websites. The findings of this study reveal that cases of racism still occur today, for example, last year because of the COVID-19 problem that initially occurred in Wuhan, China, Asian people received hatred from citizens and Western media. There are many factors that cause racial conflict, and the triggers vary in each country that experiences it, among others, because of injustice, oppression, and racial discrimination by certain groups against other groups. Through cases of racism that have occurred, one thing that according to the researcher can be concluded is how before the conflict between groups occurred, actually it started from problems that occurred between individuals. Tolerance is the main thing to stem this kind of thing.

“No One Leaves Home Unless Home Is the Mouth of a Shark”: Dwelling and the Complexities of Return in Warsan Shire’s Poetry

Africa’s bitter historical experience of slavery and racial discrimination influences diasporic literary writers in their representation of home and its exigencies. This is due to the sordid effect of racial conflicts culminating in disillusionment of writers, who engage in the nostalgic longing for their country of origin, notwithstanding the influences of the host country on African migrants. By exploring Warsan Shire’s poetry, this study, through the lens of modernity and globalization, examines the concept of home while x-raying locations of the African immigrant in diaspora. The research utilised the Postcolonial theory and the qualitative method of analysis to examine how diasporic immigrants, particularly female subalterns struggle to grapple with the intricacies of dwelling in a hostile clime which situates the “Us” and “Them” binary opposition on their lived conditions. It analysed Shire’s poems as a product of the transcultural identity formation of the poet, illustrating her migratory experiences through the notion of “unhomely” (in her home country) and “Homeliness” (in her host country) as dilemmas that bisect her quest for return home because of war. The study, thus, submits that globalization alternates the idea of situating home as a place of origin.

Book Review: An Introduction to Character Education (Pendidikan Karakter Suatu Pengantar)

Education is an essential issue for all human beings. Education can be said to improve civilization, grow the nation and form a generation of nations that can carry out various interests for their individuals. The more advanced the era, the nation asks to have quality human resources. It can be obtained with an education system that has a high quality. However, problems arise with the emergence of issues of poor character education such as juvenile delinquency, corruption, racial conflicts, etc. This book explains how important it is to develop character education in schools. The author explains that character development must be balanced with the times. In addition, it is also explained that the quality in the field of science can fall if it is not balanced with character education as a whole. An Introduction to Character Education Books was written for various purposes. The most basic purpose of writing this book is to participate in completing references and expanding educational thinking. Through this book, the author also contributes to the development of educational thinking, especially character education. Moreover, about what is meant by character education and why character education is essential, this book can present various thoughts on character education in education these days. This book is intended primarily for educational actors such as teachers, students, and education observers. It is hoped that this book can serve as a reference for studies related to character education in educational institutions. Building the character of the nation's children is not as easy as turning the palm. However, that does not mean it cannot. Some steps must be carried out so that the concept of character education can proceed appropriately, and this book also explains the indicators of character development in detail.

Racialized Capitalism and Anti-Chinese among Indonesian Workers

This research discusses racism, capitalism, and anti-Chinese among Indonesian workers. According to numerous preliminary studies in Western Europe, competition and prejudice drive racism and xenophobia. However, no research has been carried out on the historical relationship between immigrants and Indonesians in forming the capitalism process. Therefore, this qualitative research revealed these historical relationships and found that racism did not affect migrant workers other than Chinese. The study also found that racism was institutionalized through capitalism formation by the state during the colonial period. The Dutch colonialists applied racism in politics by placing Chinese workers as the intermediary, and foreman, thereby leading to the rise of class and racial conflicts. When colonialism collapsed, state officials required that the Chinese become an economic elite and needed capital support to do so. The result showed the harmonious relations between Chinese businessmen and state officials on the one hand and tensions between the state and workers on the other regarding racism and anti-China in Indonesia. Furthermore, over the past decade, identity politics has strengthened in Indonesia with open resistance to Chinese workers.

Eu sou racista: uma análise discursiva sobre o imbricamento de posições-sujeito

Os embates raciais envolvendo negros e brancos estão presentes na estrutura da sociedade brasileira, em suas instituições, no cotidiano das interações interpessoais, na mídia, sempre materializados em discursos dispersos no tempo e no espaço, circulando socialmente. Pontualmente, a imprensa constitui-se como um aparelho ideológico importante em que questões raciais costumam ser apresentadas a partir de diferentes vieses nos gêneros jornalísticos que a compõem. Mobilizando conceitos pertencentes à Análise do discurso de linha francesa na perspectiva pêcheutiana, pretende-se investigar o funcionamento de um discurso produzido em âmbito jornalístico em que o sujeito discursivo se subjetiva como racista. De que forma o sujeito discursivo constrói o sentido da palavra “racista”? Como esse sujeito é afetado pela linguagem, pela ideologia e pelo inconsciente ao tratar da questão racial? De que posições esse sujeito enuncia e a quais formações discursivas e ideológicas vincula-se? Num país que nega o seu racismo diariamente, em que esse tipo de atitude é sempre atribuído ao outro, um discurso no qual o sujeito se subjetiva como racista merece atenção. Em “Eu sou racista”, pretendemos analisar os modos de constituição desse sujeito implicado em relações históricas e ideológicas conflituosas, muitas vezes marcadas por formações discursivas contraditórias, já que o próprio caráter estrutural do racismo é um fator determinante para a flutuação das posições-sujeito na constituição do discurso e para o deslizamento de sentidos. Palavras-chave: Racismo. Condições de produção. Posições-sujeito. ABSTRACT Racial conflicts involving black and white people are present in the structure of Brazilian society, in its institutions, in the daily life of interpersonal interactions, in the media, those conflicts are always materialized in discourses dispersed in time and space, circulating socially. Occasionally, the press is an important ideological apparatus in which racial issues are usually presented from different biases in the journalistic genres that compose it. By mobilizing concepts belonging to the Discourse Analysis of the French line in the Pêcheux’s perspective, it is intended to investigate the functioning of a discourse produced in a journalistic scope that the discursive subject subjectifies as a racist. How does the discursive subject build the meaning of the word “racist”? How is this subject affected by the language, the ideology and the unconscious when dealing with racial issue? What positions does this subject enunciate and to which discursive and ideological formations does he link? In a country that denies its racism daily, in which this type of attitude is always attributed to the other, a discourse in which the subject subjectifies as a racist deserves attention. In “I’m racist”, we intend to analyze the ways of constitution of this subject involved in conflicting historical and ideological relations, often marked by contradictory discursive formations, since the very structural character of racism is a determining factor for the fluctuation of subject positions in the constitution of the speech and for the sliding of meanings. Keywords: Racism. Conditions of production. Subject positions.

Articles 370 and 371 of the Indian Constitution in the Context of Kashmir

Occupied Jammu and Kashmir is not the only state in the Indian constitution with special status but in addition to Article 370, there is also an Article 371 in the Indian Constitution which has 10 sub-clauses that give special status to other 9 states and territories. The nature of relations of these states is explained in these clauses of article 371 which is very helpful to understand article 370 of the Indian constitution. As far as Kashmir and Article 370 are concerned, the Indian government of Narendra Modi has axed the Indian position itself as all other states with constitutional guarantees are suspicious about their future in the Indian union. By repealing Article 370, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has brought to an end the false or true annexation of Kashmir with India. Thus, if there was any annexation of Kashmir with India, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had cut down that relation on 5 August 2019. Article 370 is not a myth, it is a historical fact as Article 370 specifies that apart from Foreign Affairs, Defense, Communications and subsidiary matters (matters that were specified in the Instrument of Accession to India), in all other matters and subjects Parliament of India needs the approval of assembly of the people of Kashmir. Thus, Kashmir residents lived under a distinct set of laws, together with those linked to fundamental rights, citizenship, and ownership of property as compared to other citizens of India. Occupied Jammu and Kashmir were the only states to be stripped of its status of special unite of Indian federation. As of August 5, 2019, India had 29 states in principle, but with the repeal of Article 370, there are now 28 states. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s actions regarding Occupied Jammu and Kashmir have raised concerns in these 28 states especially the states with special status like Kashmir. These concerns and reservations will sow the seeds of insincerity in the Indian Union. Expressing concern over national security, the Indian Home Ministry spokesman said separatist activities were on the rise in 200 of the country's 600 districts. Not only separatist movements but racial conflicts and caste disputes have increased after the August 5 action in Kashmir. The main reason for this unrest in India is that the states with special status under article 370 and 371 have started to ponder the federation of India as a union that is established through a system of repression. In the intellectual circles, these development are not normal as intellectuals of India are not happy with the approach of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as they are taking it dangerous for the federation of India that will be left with no confidence of the federating unite.

Konflik dalam Al-Quran

Every human life, whenever and wherever there will always be conflicts that surround it. The conflict occurs because it is motivated by differences in attitudes and feelings, cultural differences and differences in interests and social changes. These differences have given rise to various conflicts in various parts of the world, whether political conflicts, racial conflicts, religious conflicts, mental conflicts and so on. In the Qur'an, in general, there are only three types of conflict, namely family conflict, religious conflict and ethnic conflict. Most of these conflicts are the story of the people of the past and their prophets from the prophet Adam to the Prophet Muhammad SAW. Every time there is a conflict that is told in the Qur'an, Allah always hints at how to resolve it differently, and always ends with instructions so that it can be resolved peacefully (ash-shulh), deliberation, negotiation and so on. So that there is no conflict that cannot be resolved if both parties have good intentions and intentions. ABSTRAKSetiap kehidupan manusia, kapan pun dan dimanapun pasti akan selalu ada konflik yang mengitarinya. konflik itu terjadi karena dilatar belakangi oleh perbedaan pendirian dan perasaan, perbedaan kebudayaan dan perbedaan kepentingan dan perubahan sosial. Perbedaan-perbedaan itulah yang melahirkan berbagai konflik di berbagai belahan dunia ini, baik konflik politik, konflik rasial, konflik agama, konflik mental dan sebagainya. Dalam Al-Qur’an, secara garis besar terdapat tiga jenis konflik saja, yaitu konflik keluarga, konflik agama dan konflik etnis. Konflik-konflik tersebut sebagian besarnya adalah kisah umat masa lalu bersama nabi-nabi mereka sejak nabi Adam sampai kepada Nabi Muhammad SAW. Setiap ada konflik yang diceritakan dalam Al-Qur’an, Allah selalu mengisyaratkan cara penyelesaiannya secara berbeda-beda pula, dan selalu diakhiri dengan petunjuk agar diselesaikan secara damai (ash-shulh), musyawarah, negosiasi dan lain sebagainya. sehingga tidak ada konflik yang tidak bisa diselesaikan jika kedua belah pihak memiliki niat dan itikad yang baik

Криминологические аспекты современных расовых конфликтов в США

The article is devoted to the criminological aspect of the problem of racial conflicts in the United States of America. The author examines the concept of racial conflict and characterizes the causes of these conflicts. The article provides a brief criminological description of crime motivated by racial, national or religious hatred and enmity and analyzes the statistical data of both racial crime in the United States and crimes committed by representatives of different races

Between Hopelessness and Despair: Afropessimism and Black Nihilism in Ta-Nehisi Coates's Works

Most of the criticism that Ta-Nehisi Coates received in the aftermath of the publication of his work Between the World and Me orbits around its lack of hopefulness. Indeed, it is several times in the text that Coates tempers his son’s expectations about foreseeing an end to racial conflicts as he tells him that “I do not believe that we can stop [racists], Samori, because they must ultimately stop themselves” (Between the World 151). Certainly, the previous contention has drawn critics into reading Coates’s work as an attack against black agency (Chatterton Williams n.p.). It is our contention that, far from being read as a manifestation of cynicism, Coates’s negativity also has a galvanizing dimension. In fact, by emphasizing the futility of hope, which for Coates traps black individuals in an “unending pursuit” of progress (Warren “Black Nihilism” 221), he provides readers with many alternatives to confront the rampant racism that still pervades U.S. society nowadays.

The Limits of Human Rights Limits

Rescuing Human Rights: A Radically Moderate Approach (Rescuing) was published shortly before the outbreak in 2020 of the novel coronavirus and its myriad human rights and class issues regarding equality, discrimination, health, and labor rights of people of color. This was also prior to the concurrent public murder of George Floyd as an unarmed Black man by the Minneapolis police in late May 2020, and the resulting continuing Black Lives Matter massive national and international movement against the deaths of Floyd and others and the history of systemic American racism, including police shooting deaths, discrimination, and brutality against African Americans, particularly unarmed Black men. Such comprehensive street protests have not been seen in America since 1968. They represent, inter alia, the cover of disguises of national racism being publicly stripped away, and the national confrontation with irrefutable evidence of a wide spectrum of systemic rights violations and the deficits of American law and government to ensure African Americans’ basic rights. Further, Rescuing was published before it became fully apparent that the federal government's responses to Black Lives Matter, particularly the executive branch, would fan the racial conflicts of national mourning and demands for new justice narratives, rather than healing and unifying for American citizens as a whole, even as these protests were the most diverse in recent memory.