Believing race should end can substitute for fighting racism itself

Evidence

For I shall be suggesting that there are crucial moments when the necessity and complexity of this connection are lost sight of, and antiracism reduces primarily, principally, or completely to antiracial commitment, to antiracialism. At these moments, the end of racism is confused with no more than being against race, the end of race substituting to varying degrees for the commitment to – the struggles for – ending racism. The refusal of racism reduces to racial refusal; and racial refusal is thought to exhaust antiracism. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 50

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the key conceptual distinction between antiracialism (opposition to race as a category) and antiracism (opposition to racist arrangements and subordination) that anchors the book.
• DEEPTHINKING: This distinction — treating the end of race as exhausting the antiracist project — is dense and paradigm-shaping for the whole argument.
• XREF: Connects to the reader-global interests: threatened-privilege research would ask whether such ‘racial refusal’ language gives privileged groups an exit from confronting institutional discrimination. — connects to: Refusing race can foster solidarity across differently racialised groups — Luke de Noronha, The conviviality of the overpoliced,…, 65; Post-racial claims actually deny ongoing racism rather than racial identity — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 147; Belief in racial traits need not constitute racism unless it asserts hierarchy — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 62 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Post-racial claims actually deny ongoing racism rather than racial identity #corroborates (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 147
• Refusing race can foster solidarity across differently racialised groups #qualifies (0.78) — Luke de Noronha, The conviviality of the overpoliced,…, 65
• Belief in racial traits need not constitute racism unless it asserts hierarchy #corroborates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 62