Antiracist resistance can operate by acting out the racial stereotype to undercut it

Evidence

By contrast, Arafat’s interminable history, of course, was one of too often tragic and occasionally comic mistimings, miscues, and misdirections. The consequences were more than often bitter, even devastating, as much for his own people he claimed to represent as for Israelis he clearly did resent. Orientalize the Palestinian, philistinize him, and he will act out accordingly. The Arab is a dog, Arik had always said, the prototypical Judas; she a whore, the quintessential Delilah. He will howl, keeping you awake at night; she will infect you, blind you, sucking away your strength. Kill as many “worms” as you can, the Sharonites have always implored, for fear they will otherwise overrun you. Take their land, for it is ours. Destroy their houses, villages, olive groves, for they do not belong. We should have done so long ago; let’s finish it now. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 618 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Racialized people can practice a vernacular anti-race-ism refusing racist categories — Luke de Noronha, The conviviality of the overpoliced,…, 62; The politics of respectability required blacks to police their own behavior against racist stereotype — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 900; Public preference for colorblindness must be converted into political action to defeat racial collectivism. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 442 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Racializing a people can induce them to enact the very caricature assigned to them #complicates (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 618