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The purpose of this thesis was to study racism in Finland in the 21st century. The goal was to find out young people`s experiences about racism at school and in their free time and also to examine their attitudes about discussing racism. I also wanted to study antiracist strategies for people involved in antiracism work. Previous Finnish researches about these subjects focus on children`s and young people`s experiences about racism, everyday racism in the youth relations and antiracist education. The thesis is a systematic literary review which includes five peer reviewed articles published in different scientific journals. For my literary review I chose recently published acrticles that talk about racism and antiracism education. The key selection criteria was that the young people were included in the research and their opinions were heard and it was possible to find antiracist strategies for the people involved in antiracism work that they should implement in their work. The research results showed that the majority of the youth with multicultural background have personal experiences of racism: harassment, discrimination, isolation, verbal and physical violence. The need to talk about racism is great and majority of them are interested about taking part in civic action against racism. The youth are requesting that there would be discussions about racism at schools and in the youth activities. Antiracist strategies were discovered in this study. Teachers should learn how to recognize, question and deconstruct structures of power in the schools social interaction situations and speak against discrimination at school and elsewhere. When discussing racism it is necessary to think about the goals and the questions before the conversation and connect history to present. It is important to discuss about the hierarchies of power, share personal experiences and think about different antiracist strategies. Categorizing people should be questioned. In youth work they should listen young people`s wishes about the arranged activities and they should consider positive discrimination for the young people with multicultural background..