Claiming a new racial identity unravels when ancestry is revealed, except through passing.

Evidence

Unlike Judaism, Jewishness had to be, emphatically, stronger than human will and human creative potential. It had to be located at the level of natural law (the kind of law that ought to be discovered, and then taken account of and exploited for human benefit, but which cannot be wished away, tampered with, or neglected – at least, nut without terrible consequences). … The product of conversion – be it religious or cultural – is not the change, but loss of quality. On the other side of conversion lurks a void, not another identity. The convert loses his identity without acquiring anything instead. Man is before he acts; nothing he does may change what he is. This is, roughly, the philosophical essence of racism. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 179 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Yet, being racialized does not necessarily mean that the racialized group self-identifies this way immediately. Gotanda (2011, 189) observes that it took a century of racial subordination of diverse Asian populations in the United States, including Chinese, Korean, and Japanese people, before they embraced a pan-ethnic category of Asian American. Eventually, this category was recognized legally under the American census. This stage can be seen as full racialization where racial identification by others matches the racialized self-understanding of the group. — Mareike Riedel, Islamophobia, Racial Discrimination…, 65 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Second, and consequently, England has to fulfil a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating — the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and the Jaying of the material foundations of Western society in Asia. … For in the “that” racial identification ironically is reified, as it is in the personal distancing from the attendant racial characterization. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 32 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Racial identification is reified even when one denies it — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 32; New racial identities can form in response to racism itself; Racial identity rests on an abstract presumption of familial connectedness. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 68 (+4 more)

Related

• Racial identification is reified even when one denies it (similarity 0.82)
• New racial identities can form in response to racism itself (similarity 0.81)
• Racism locates identity beyond will so conversion yields loss not change (similarity 0.81)
• Visible phenotype is not required for a group to become racialized (similarity 0.81)
• Muslims get racialized via projected religious ancestry regardless of self-understanding (similarity 0.80)
• Full racialization requires external ascription and internal adoption to eventually coincide (similarity 0.80)
• Race and ethnicity are mutually converting categories caught in a double demand (similarity 0.80)
• Racial identity requires shared history and community, not just culture or phenotype. (similarity 0.80)
• Racial ascription can override a person’s own refusal of that identity (similarity 0.79)
• The legal self-identification requirement for ethnic groups constitutes self-racialization (similarity 0.79)
• Racial identity is a dynamic bricolage, not a fixed biological given. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Racism locates identity beyond will so conversion yields loss not change #corroborates (0.85) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 179
• Racial identification is reified even when one denies it #corroborates (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 32
• Full racialization requires external ascription and internal adoption to eventually coincide #qualifies (0.80) — Mareike Riedel, Islamophobia, Racial Discrimination…, 65
• New racial identities can form in response to racism itself #qualifies (0.75)
• Racial identity rests on an abstract presumption of familial connectedness. #expands (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 68
• Racial identity requires shared history and community, not just culture or phenotype. #expands (0.75)
• Race’s apparent naturalness conceals the labor that reproduces racial arrangements #expands (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 58