Antiracial colorblindness erases the very vocabulary needed to press racial claims

Evidence

Antiracism requires historical memory, recalling the conditions of racial degradation and relating contemporary to historical and local to global conditions. If antiracist commitment requires remembering and recalling, antiracialism suggests forgetting, getting over, moving on, wiping away the terms of reference, at best (or worst) a commercial memorializing rather than a recounting and redressing of the terms of humiliation and devaluation. Indeed, antiracialism seeks to wipe out the terms of reference, to wipe away the very vocabulary necessary to recall and recollect, to make a case, to make a claim. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 122

Antiracism requires historical memory, recalling the conditions of racial degradation and relating contemporary to historical and local to global conditions. If antiracist commitment requires remembering and recalling, antiracialism suggests forgetting, getting over, moving on, wiping away the terms of reference, at best (or worst) a commercial memorializing rather than a recounting and redressing of the terms of humiliation and devaluation. Indeed, antiracialism seeks to wipe out the terms of reference, to wipe away the very vocabulary necessary to recall and recollect, to make a case, to make a claim. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 122

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes antiracism (requires historical memory) from antiracialism (colorblindness that forgets).
• XREF: Connects to the colorblindness debate in US civil rights historiography and to Bourdieu-style critiques of evoking race as itself racist. — connects to: Formal colorblindness preserves racial inequality in privatized, unnamed form. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 129; Official colorblindness lets familiar-partner privilege continue unchecked as exclusion — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1621; Colorblind mestizaje narratives re-suppress already marginalized racial subjects — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1840 (+6 more)
• SEED: Essay angle: colorblindness as an epistemic violence that confiscates the vocabulary of grievance — ‘getting over it’ as a political technology.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 122