ur is determined by stable characteristics deriving from separate racial stocks having distinct attributes and usually considered to stand to one another in relations of superiority and inferiority'. He too was referring exclusively to nineteenth century scientific arguments about race. However, since science had justified the rejection of the concept of race, it was concluded by many academics of the time that racism had disappeared (Miles 1989: 47). But is it infact correct to make the claim that racism has disappeared? Dijk (1993: 171) argues that this earlier definition constitutes 'old fashioned biological racism'. If such a definition were to hold any validity today, then 'most modern racism may not be racism at all' (Dijk 1993: 171)! Racism today can be the result of unintended everyday discourses and behaviours, even in the absence of direct racial prejudice (Barfield 1997: 395). Miles (1989) was very sceptical of this early definition of racism as a false doctrine as it fails to explain why racism still
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