Demographic size and land ties shape how racial groups are valued

Evidence

Part of this process of differentiated insertion has had to do with the significant demographic differences and the sorts of political and symbolic, eugenic and representational threats those differences have conjured. Axiologically, in terms of the attendant aesthetic and moral values, blacks (in contrast with mestizos/mesticos) more often than not are demeaned, cast(e) aside, in the self-characterization of national personality. Indians and mestizos/mesticos, morenos, or mulat(t)os have occupied a more ambivalent terrain, not least in those societies in which their potential political power has been tied to their larger demographic representation as well as their identification with the land both as economic resource and as national imaginary. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1214

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to demography-driven symbolic politics and the land-as-national-imaginary theme; resonates with postcolonial land restitution debates. — connects to: Whites redefined neighborhood worth as racial homogeneity plus amenity self-sufficiency — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 187