Any group defined as a racial object finds its identity mediated through death

Evidence

One could perhaps generalize this eschatology of racial ontology, without diminishing the particular and particularly pressing exemplification of the principle embodied in the modern histories of blackness. So any group the intense modern experience of which has been conjured principally as the object of racial configuration will find its sense of self mediated, if not massaged and managed – in short, threatened – through its relation to death, as earlier chapters have elaborated. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1837

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Racism operates as a disposition toward premature death of the subjugated. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 141; Acknowledging death’s enormity can itself erase the racial dimension — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 848; Racism operates as production of group vulnerability to premature death (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Racism operates as production of group vulnerability to premature death #expands (0.90)
• Acknowledging death’s enormity can itself erase the racial dimension #qualifies (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 848
• Racialization operates as a form of warfare deciding who lives and dies #expands (0.85)
• Minoritized groups channel racialized death-mediation into markedly different survival strategies #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1838
• Representation itself determines who is acknowledged as dying and how #expands (0.80)
• Identifying with death extends one’s identification with existing social conditions #expands (0.75) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1520