Capital continually reinvents which color-coded group it demonizes
Evidence
By turning his attention to the Arab who is even more tyrannized by the European than he himself, Fanon anticipates a future point when the Arab will emerge as the new African, the Muslim as the new Jew, and brown as the new black; and he pre-empts the need to fetishize any one of these color-coded conditions of domination, arguing instead for global understanding of the manner in which capital keeps reinventing its cultures of domination. It is under that recodified condition of coloniality—when Negritude is codified but Arabness and Muslimhood is not—that our native informers and the services they provide need to be placed and understood. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 185
Categorization
- DEEPTHINKING: The claim ‘capital keeps reinventing its cultures of domination’ resists one-sentence summary: it dissolves identity fetishism without dismissing any group’s suffering, and pins the displacement to the material engine. Ladders into the whole chapter’s architecture.
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s notes on how complaints-about-immodesty moral panics recycle across cultures and eras — same substitution mechanism.