Late-modernity and the Theorisation of Race in New Zealand
Race, ethnicity and racism are issues of mounting significance in New Zealand .This paper argues that it is necessary to situate contemporary racisms within the recent social transformations of late-modernity that have created new anxieties and fears. Using a racism-modernity problematic, this paper situates past and present anti-Asiatic racisms within their legislative and socio-political contexts. It is argued that in present conditions of late modernity, it is instructive to depart from the timeless notion of racism as colour or cultural discrimination and to instead deploy a broader definition that holistically includes the various pathologies that are specific to contemporary expressions of racisms.