Acknowledging death’s enormity can itself erase the racial dimension

Evidence

In a terse twist, by the same token, death’s distillation, its concentration, the recognition of death’s enormity in these cases conjures racial evaporation. In the case of slavery racial evaporation transpires in the delinking of past from present and future, The concentrated killing of Auschwitz evaporates race in the insistence of the Shoah’s uniqueness, its exemplary exceptionality. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 848

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The two-fold paradox — both denying death and concentrating on death’s enormity evaporate race — is genuinely paradigm-shifting analytic pivoting.
• XREF: connects to: Any group defined as a racial object finds its identity mediated through death — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1837