Media Racism: Beyond Modernity and Postmodernity By Anthony Löwstedt & Nyasha Mboti Citation: Löwstedt, A. & N. Mboti (2017). Media Racism: Beyond Modernity and Postmodernity, International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics 13(1), 111-130 http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/macp.13.1-2.111_1 Abstract Racism is and has been understood differently in different eras and geographic contexts, but across space and time there are also commonalities: the reliance on stereotypes in definition and justification of race, the construction of difference, the process of Othering, or the biased superficiality of the criteria for credit, blame, reward and punishment. The appearance of people is consistently rated over their substance or character (Fozdar et al. 2009). According to Goldberg (1993: 42) racist discourses may be categorized as aversive, academic, scientific, legalistic, bureaucratic, economic, cultural, linguistic, religious, mythical, or ideological. Racist activities includes a range of crimes against humanity, including genocide, apartheid, colonialism, slavery, and a related spectrum from homicide, aggravated assault, mobbing, harassment, incitement, demonization, de-humanization, de-legitimization, discrimination, defamation, and insult to bias. Racism in communication and in the media consists of the last eight of those activities as well as of structural and systemic conditions, inequalities of power, which are the main focus of this article. In particular, we investigate the purported and frequently invoked differences in racist media communications between modern and postmodern varieties. Is racism changing? And if so, what is the role of the media?