This article emerges out of the racism debate in Security Dialogue (May 2020). It takes its cue from the passing claim that Orientalism/Eurocentrism is different from racism and that the former is deemed to be relatively innocuous while the latter is viewed as egregious. Here I reveal how Eurocentrism is equivalent to cultural racism. I show how racism has outwardly shapeshifted through time in everyday life and world politics, and how orthodox international relations theory’s racist trajectory has mirrored this. Since 1945, modern orthodox international relations theory has covered its racism with a non-racist mask through a sublimated discourse that focuses on cultural difference but is white racism in disguise. Unmasking modern international relations/international political economy theory exposes this sublimated racist discourse by revealing its racist double move: first, it whitewashes racism and denies its presence in the conduct of world politics and the global economy in the last three centuries, thereby providing an apologia for racist practices; second, it advances subliminal cultural-racist analytical/explanatory frameworks. I close by solving the conundrum as to how white orthodox international relations scholars who are most probably non-racist (though not anti-racist) in their personal lives embrace, albeit unwittingly, racist theories of world politics and the global economy.

本文来自安全对话中的种族主义辩论（2020 年 5 月）。它从过去的主张中得到启示，即东方主义/欧洲中心主义不同于种族主义，前者被认为是相对无害的，而后者被认为是令人震惊的。在这里，我揭示了欧洲中心主义如何等同于文化种族主义。我展示了种族主义如何随着时间的推移在日常生活和世界政治中向外转变，以及正统的国际关系理论的种族主义轨迹如何反映了这一点。自1945年以来，现代正统国际关系理论通过一种关注文化差异但伪装成白人种族主义的升华话语，为其种族主义披上了非种族主义的面具。揭开现代国际关系/国际政治经济学理论的面纱，揭示了这种升华的种族主义话语，揭示了其种族主义的双重举动：首先，它粉饰种族主义并否认其在过去三个世纪中在世界政治和全球经济中的存在，从而为种族主义行为辩护；其次，它推进了潜意识的文化种族主义分析/解释框架。最后，我解决了一个难题，即在他们的个人生活中很可能是非种族主义者（尽管不是反种族主义者）的白人正统国际关系学者如何接受世界政治和全球经济的种族主义理论，尽管是在不知不觉中。