Antiracialism is whiteness by another name, done through decategorization

Evidence

As an end in itself, antiracialism, it turns out for the most part, is whiteness by another name, by other means, with recruitment of people of color to act as public spokespersons for the cause. The targets of racism, by contrast and for the most part, are concerned less with and about the category than with the conditions, the artifice and fabrication, of their restriction and exclusion, their humiliation and degradation. They are concerned, in short, less with the concept of race than with the culture(s) of racism, the cultivating of racisms. Antiracialism is about decategorization, a gesture necessarily by the racially dominant towards those they racially suppress. Antiracism, by contrast, involves itself centrally, among other things, in what Fanon has called decorroboration by the racially repressed of the racially self-elevated. It seeks to remove the condition not indirectly through removal of the category in the name of which the repression is enacted. Rather, it seeks to remove the structure of the condition itself. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 126 (#expands, via linked claim)

These courageous yet limited black efforts to combat racist cultural practices uncritically accepted non-black conventions and standards in two ways. First, they proceeded in an assimilationist manner that set out to show that black people were really like white people, thereby eliding differences (cultural, historical) between whites and blacks … Second, these black responses rested upon a homogenizing impulse that assumed that all black people were really alike—hence obliterating differences (class, gender, region, sexual orientation) between black peoples. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 1189 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Race relations is a false category masking underlying white racism — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 672; Antiracialism abandons the category of race while leaving racist conditions intact; Antiracialism is whiteness by another name disarming antiracist struggle — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 126 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Antiracialism is whiteness by another name disarming antiracist struggle #expands (0.95) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 126
• Assimilationist anti-racism both erased black-white difference and homogenized black peoples #complicates (0.72) — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 1189