Ascription of racial identity drives both compliance with and resistance to the stereotype
Evidence
If this is the historical logic of racial dominance, it suggests too a feature of racial resistance. On the other side then, it is the refusal of living with contempt – and, relatedly, with self-contempt – that gives rise, at least initially, to the impetus for antiracist movements. “The other side,” otherness, othering are hardly natural categories, as critical intellectual movements of the past 25 years have shown. Resistance and response are necessarily products of the artifice of alterity, of its making and remaking. If I am different – that I am different – in just the ways racially marked may well dispose me in a society taking those markers seriously as much to act against the stereotypifying ascriptions as to act on them, to act them out. No transgression without (in this case) racially fashioned normativity. I am racially characterized, therefore I (am presumed, expected, in fact seen to) think (or not) and act accordingly. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 74
Categorization
- QUESTION: Relevant to threatened-privilege testing: does the dispossessed side experience being characterized as eliciting counter-resistance, not just compliance? A possible cross-axis parallel worth chasing.
- XREF: connects to: Race both creates belonging and produces rejection through categorization; Automatic race stereotypes operate regardless of self-reported prejudice; Racial discrimination can precede and constitute a group’s own racialized self-understanding — Mareike Riedel, Islamophobia, Racial Discrimination…, 66 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Race both creates belonging and produces rejection through categorization
#expands(0.78) - Automatic race stereotypes operate regardless of self-reported prejudice
#corroborates(0.75) - Racial discrimination can precede and constitute a group’s own racialized self-understanding
#expands(0.75) — Mareike Riedel, Islamophobia, Racial Discrimination…, 66 - Identity denial may make mixed-race people shift identification to a different ingroup
#exemplifies(0.72) — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or Neither, 119