Claims that race has died actually deny continuing racism

Evidence

I am concerned in what follows with mapping out some of the more or less programmatic threads of these lingering logics of racial threat and terror, of violence and death, and of the inextricable entanglements of security with insecurity and the undermining of safety. I am concerned to ask, to reveal, what gets unasked in the revelation of these logics, in these linkages, what haunts us as we remember and forget, in what we remember to forget and forget to remember. And to consider the remaining racial effects on how we think and live the social betwixt and between of racial arrangement and order, of racial states. The claim of the evaporation – the death – of race is really a claim not about racial death but about “the end,” the disappearance, of racism, seeking to evade thus the violent and deadly ends, all those threats, large and small, geopolitical and everyday, in the service of which racisms continue to be pressed into practice. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 147

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Claims that race is dead really seek to declare racism ended; Post-racial claims actually deny ongoing racism rather than racial identity — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 147; Convincing people racism is over ensures that racism persists — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 1142 (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• Post-racial claims actually deny ongoing racism rather than racial identity #corroborates (0.98) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 147
• Claims that race is dead really seek to declare racism ended #corroborates (0.92)
• Racial identification is reified even when one denies it #expands (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 32
• Racism persists in raceless form by shifting from denial to security-based justification #expands (0.82) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 138
• Convincing people racism is over ensures that racism persists #qualifies (0.80) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1142
• Believing race should end can substitute for fighting racism itself #corroborates (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 50
• Racism persists in post-race America precisely through arguments that affirm civil rights #expands (0.80)
• Claiming universal mixture is deployed to deny racism exists. #exemplifies (0.80)
• Explicit racism, denial of racism, and post-race celebration operate simultaneously #expands (0.78)
• Racism is real while race itself is a myth #expands (0.75) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 39
• Race exists only as a specter produced by racism, not as reality #expands (0.75)
• True antiracism risks death while antiracialism opposes only a concept #expands (0.75)