“Scotland’s not a race… is it koz I is ginger?” The funny thing about racial difference is that it is neither genetic nor biological. Race based on colour is an arbitrary construct, used to fabricate social difference in relation to power.
Understanding Anti-Muslim Racism in Ireland
Muslim people in the West, as a result of politically opportunistic and security industry rhetoric, have been denuded of their rightful sense of safety and so exposed to the blatantly racist agenda of the media.
Towards the Recovery of Pavee History
The most significant, popularly held assumption of Traveller origins is that voiced in the 1952 Folklore Commission of Ireland which concluded on thin evidence that today’s Pavees “are descended from Irish peasants forced onto the roads, most significantly as a result of the Great Famine of the 1840s.”
You Better Get Born in Some Place Else
In Dublin, and all over Ireland, the plight of the Travellers is more immediate; more visible. There are more Travellers here; more purpose built housing, more halting sites, and more visible prejudice and open discrimination. This is not to say that things are better in Scotland.
Colour Blind: The Invention of Race
Race is nothing more than an arbitrary division of human beings by the characteristics we choose to see. We choose to see skin colour and some feature differences over others, and yet we discount other, equally arbitrary distinctions such as hair and eyes colour, height, and so forth.
