Colorblindness replaced biological racism with cultural deficiency explanations

Evidence

These approaches are grounded in the view that biological or scientific racism has declined in significance, and new forms of racialized hostility have grown to take its place. It is argued that this “old racism” has been superseded by a new racism or by the rearticulation of racism which is characterized by an assertion of the naturalness of both a desire to live amongst “one’s own people” (Us) and hostility towards a culturally or racially distinct immigrant presence (the Other) that threatens the existence of “our way of life.” — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1871 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Criticized but still firmly embedded in our societies are the universal claims of Western knowledge, the domination of Western norms for progress, and the globalization of Western standards for cultural and human development (Amin, 1989). Racism - or, historically speaking more accurate, racisms (Goldberg, 1990, 1993) - covers ideological and social processes which discriminate against others on the basis of their being associated with different racial or ethnic group membership. In the course of the twentieth century a shift of discourses has occurred, replacing the focus on quasi-scientific myths of biological inferiority by a concern with cultural (under)development (Solomos, 1989). — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1461 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Formal colorblindness preserves racial inequality in privatized, unnamed form. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 129; Antiracist victories across three eras were each defused by formal legal colorblindness — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 127; Cultural racism substitutes cultural difference for biological difference as a racial logic (+12 more)

Broader Connections

• Biological racism was replaced by a coded cultural new racism #corroborates (0.98) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1871
• Cultural racism substitutes cultural traits for biological ones in racializing groups. #corroborates (0.98)
• Cultural racism substitutes cultural difference for biological difference as a racial logic #corroborates (0.97)
• Twentieth-century racism shifted from biology to culture #corroborates (0.97) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1461
• Modern racism targets cultural difference rather than physical traits #corroborates (0.95)
• Biological racism and cultural differentialism combine rather than replace each other. #contradicts (0.93) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 344
• Biological racism and cultural differentialism are racism’s two registers, not separate systems #complicates (0.90)
• Sociobiology reasserted biological racism while evading the racist label #complicates (0.78) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1080