Blacks were uniquely cast among alien groups as loyal potential allies
Evidence
Such an emergency, as they perceived it, entangled their own destinies with those alien and opposing, but they frequently portrayed blacks, unlike the other groups, as potentially loyal and needed allies. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 538
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: White mission aid treated blacks as both mission field and threat to national order — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 528; Black Civil War service marked blacks as loyal Americans unlike other ‘foreigners’ — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 540; Fear of Black political power was framed as alien invasion — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1763 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Diaspora Africans held potential for grand racial combination against Africa’s colonization
#corroborates(0.80) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1164 - Diaspora Africans were urged toward grand racial combination with their continental homeland
#corroborates(0.78) - Fear of Black political power was framed as alien invasion
#qualifies(0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1763 - Out-group minorities are admired for courage rather than derogated
#corroborates(0.70) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1407