Talk:New racism

Is this really so notable?

This from the current article: 'the label "new racism" has been particularly influential'. Influential to what or whom, exactly? This woolliness is solipsistic and unless dealt with rather flags this article as ripe for deletion IMHO. Alfietucker (talk) 13:22, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

I agree, this article should be deleted. It hardly fits Wikipedia's criteria of notability. It must be remembered that Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information, and that summary-only descriptions of works are specifically singled out as non belonging to it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Wikipedia_is_not_an_indiscriminate_collection_of_information). Other than its first paragraph, this article barely resumes the concept provided by Barker (along with some citations, which does not necessarily recognizes it as of wide academic interest or respectability) and should be dealt with in that author's own article as a subsection, if dealt with at all. Having roughly a dozen of citations about a term or work is not enough to consider it 'highly cited', as Wikipedia's guidelines state that these kinds of subjects must be (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(academics)#Specific_criteria_notes); specially when other works and concepts have them by hundreds. Not to mention, also, that in academic disciplines that are so narrow as the study of sociological tendencies in late XX century European media, further guidelines of the Wikipedia apply: "Overly narrow and highly specialized categories should be avoided. Arguing that someone is an expert in an extremely narrow area of study is, in and of itself, not necessarily sufficient to satisfy Criterion 1. (The person's research has had a significant impact in their scholarly discipline...)". Therefore, in agreement with Alfietucker, I shall start the procedures to delete this article. Miguerum (talk) 17:29, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

It makes sense to simply merge this article into Cultural racism, which is essentially exactly the same phenomenon. It is only that, as the "new racism" has become less new, so the term "cultural racism" has become more commonly used in place of it. The Cultural racism article already outlines that "New racism" is basically a synonym for it. Midnightblueowl (talk) 22:47, 14 August 2019 (UTC)