Colonial racial rationalization seeped back into the imperial metropoles

Evidence

Racial europeanization thus concerns itself overwhelmingly with racial avoidance as denial of or at least failure to acknowledge its own racist implication. But the postwar racial evaporation both deepened and became more difficult to sustain as the empire came home to the metropoles increasingly from the 1960s on. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 856 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial racism generalized aristocratic superiority to justify empire and shore up domestic class rule — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 571; Colonial racial ideas circulated bidirectionally between metropole and province.; Colonial formation produces a diasporic outsider subjectivity within the imperial metropole (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Colonial racial ideas circulated bidirectionally between metropole and province. #expands (0.92)
• Racial evaporation became harder to sustain as former colonies migrated to European metropoles #complicates (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 856