Capital constantly recodifies racist power relations, so oppression shifts targets

Evidence

My principal argument in this book is that in present-day North America and Western Europe—and by extension the world they seek to dominate—brown has become the new black and Muslims the new Jews. This is because a recodification of racist power relations is the modus operandi of an ever-changing condition of domination in which capital continually creates its own elusive cultures. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 57

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the book’s core thesis: the recodifiable nature of domination under capital creates successive scapegoat categories.
• XREF: Echoes the Fanon framework in the book’s title and My Brother My Enemy; also resonates with analogies drawn in The Reluctant Fundamentalist about post-9/11 brown identity.

Related

• Capital continually reinvents which color-coded group it demonizes (similarity 0.83)
• Racism persists while its targets shift from black to brown and Jew to Muslim (similarity 0.81)
• Shifting racism’s targets exposes the social construction of race itself (similarity 0.79)
• Distinct racist systems fuse by cross-codifying their targets. (similarity 0.78)
• American racism has recently recoded blacks and Jews into Arabs and Muslims (similarity 0.78)
• Shifting racist targets from black to brown defetishizes Du Bois’s color line (similarity 0.78)