Antiracialism abandons the category of race while leaving racist conditions intact

Evidence

Antiracialism, it turns out, takes hold – becomes insistent, one might say begins to make itself heard – once the antiracist struggles have achieved their initial but incomplete goals. Antiracialism marks the moment that a society is accepted into (or even as a momentary moral leader of) the world. It marks, in a word, the moment of globalization’s relative (and repeated) triumph. To be of the world, in the world, a worldly society, racism nominally has been rejected. Now the category of race must be erased. But we are being asked to give up on race before and without addressing the legacy, the roots, the scars of racisms’ histories, the weights of race. We are being asked to give up on the word, the concept, the category, at most the categorizing. But not, pointedly not, the conditions for which those terms stand. In the beginning was the deed; in the end, to undo the deed, the word should not be uttered. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 123 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Deportees subjected to state racism can still refuse racial categories themselves. — Luke de Noronha, The conviviality of the overpoliced,…, 5; Nativism abandoned ideological conversion for permanent racial exclusion once radical threat dissolved — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1580; Antiracialism opposes racial categories while antiracism opposes imposed racial conditions. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 84 (+12 more)

Broader Connections

• Antiracialism demands abandoning race discourse while leaving racist conditions untouched #corroborates (1.00) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 123