Anticolonial and civil-rights movements pursued complementary goals against overlapping racial structures

Evidence

Both anticolonial and civil rights mobilizations need to be viewed, then, as vigorous, influential, and effective antiracist movements. Anticolonialism, of course, was principally directed at effecting national independence while the civil rights movement was aimed first and foremost at national integration. Both nevertheless sought to undo the histories of racially ordered social structures, legal enforcements, group-driven exclusions, conceptual colonialisms, and racially indexed foreshortened lives in the metropoles as much as in the colonies. Both sought to “decolonize the imagination” and to “provincialize Europe” (which is also to say to deprovincialize what is not European). In this, they sought to strip from the racially subjugated the imposition of infantilizing and demeaning self-conceptions, with varying degrees of success and less dramatic transformative influence on the imaginaries of the oppressing classes. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 98

Categorization

• XREF: The claim that these movements changed dominated groups’ self-conceptions far more than the oppressors’ imaginaries parallels the reader’s contact/institution gap — a one-sided awareness change is relevant to testing where privilege-threat mobilization does or does not update. — connects to: Anticolonial and US civil rights struggles form one interconnected antiracist mobilization. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 90; American antiracists and anticolonial activists shared organized networks from 1911 onward. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 93; Anticolonialism and civil rights shared core antiracist aims despite different targets — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 98 (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• Anticolonialism and civil rights shared core antiracist aims despite different targets #corroborates (0.95) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 98
• Black struggles in the US function under domestic colonialism linked to worldwide anticolonialism #exemplifies (0.85)
• Postwar racial nationalist movements linked local resistance to global antiimperialism #corroborates (0.82)
• Antiracist movements sought to transform racial status quo #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 114
• Early anticolonial leaders’ geographic circuits produced a shared antiracist politics. #corroborates (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 95
• Racisms combine across racialized groups rather than dividing cleanly by target #expands (0.78)
• The civil rights movement was built on black-only institutions #expands (0.75) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 344
• Racial minority movements split into entrists, socialists, and nationalists that overlapped #expands (0.72) — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 170
• Antiracist movements admitted the excluded but ceded definitional power to whites #complicates (0.72)
• The civil rights movement replaced overt racism with a subtler symbolic form #complicates (0.72) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2628