Categorisation and Minoritisation
Date
2020Author
Zembe-Mkabile, Wanga
Selvarajah, Sujitha
Deivanayagam, Thilagawathi Abi
Lasco, Gideon
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The disproportionate mortality of COVID-19
and brutality of protective institutions has
shifted anti-racism
discourses into the mainstream.
1 Increased reckoning over categorisations
of people demonstrate that racial
categories, while imprecise, fluid, time and
context-specific,
embody hierarchical power.
We interrogate categorisations used in the
UK, South Africa and the USA; their origins
and impact. We emphasise needing to recognise
commonality of power structures globally,
while acknowledging specificity in local
contexts. In identifying such commonality, we
encourage use of the term ‘minoritised’ as a
universal alternative.