How Racism Was Redefined—and Turned into a Political Cudgel

How Racism Was Redefined—and Turned into a Political Cudgel

Joseph (Jake) Klein’s book Redefining Racism dives deep into a narrow slice of the history of the Social Justice Fundamentalism (SJF) movement: the redefinition of the term “racism.” He starts in 1960s Detroit, and traces the history through decades of SJF activists from Robert Terry to Robin DiAngelo, to describe how the term “racism” got redefined away from “racial prejudice or discrimination” and into “prejudice plus power.” The redefinition …