Antiracialism is whiteness by another name disarming antiracist struggle

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

Categorization

• XREF: Resonates with the reader’s notes on moral panics over modesty — bans on speech/category that leave the underlying power structures intact. — connects to: Race’s rendered irrelevance stigmatizes antiracist invocation as the real racism — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1863; Privileged anti-racism activists weaponize their own privilege against the system — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 1868; Colorblind antiracialism gains force only after partial antiracist gains begin succeeding — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 123
• DEFINE: Introduces Fanon’s term ‘decorroboration’ — the racially repressed removing the self-elevation of the racially dominant rather than just erasing the label.