%0 Journal Article
%T Adapting to post
%A Minna Seikkula
%J European Journal of Cultural Studies
%@ 1460-3551
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1367549417718209
%X Scholarly discussions contesting post-racialism have noted how the false but common belief ¨C that systematic racism has been defeated in Western societies ¨C works to undermine anti-racismĄ¯s critical potential. Simultaneously, the discussion about the relativization of anti-racism has mainly been located in contexts with strong anti-racist traditions. By exploring anti-racism in the Finnish civil society, the article thematizes thinking around the post-racial modality of racism in a context where racism is often presented as a recent phenomenon. A discourse analysis of non-governmental organization advocacy materials that work to mainstream anti-racism identifies three parallel problem-definitions of racism, illustrating a tendency to understand racism as an individual flaw in a non-racist social reality. This shows that trivializing racism and recentring whiteness happen through classed and aged discourses
%K Anti-racism
%K NGO advocacy
%K post-racialism
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1367549417718209