Deportees subjected to state racism can still refuse racial categories themselves.

Evidence

The article then analyses the accounts of deported people who show that conviviality is about much more than getting along across difference, but can represent a wider ethics of ‘refusing race and salvaging the human’. Indeed, when people subject to extraordinary forms of state racism – overpoliced, detained and then expelled – still reject all defensive investments in racial categories, proving themselves not only against racism but ‘against race’, they reassert the normative, ethical and prefigurative character of convivial cultures. — Luke de Noronha, The conviviality of the overpoliced,…, 5

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that victims of extreme state racism reject not just racism but the category ‘race’ itself resists easy summary — a genuinely paradigm-reframing inversion of the usual expectation that the oppressed cling to group identity as defense.
• SEED: Article angle: how the people most brutalized by racialized state violence come to refuse ‘race’ itself as a category of being — against the common assumption that antiracism consolidates identity.
• corroborated: 4 independent passages support this claim — Luke de Noronha, The conviviality of the overpoliced,…, 5
• XREF: connects to: Migrant communities cannot be treated as discrete individuals but must mobilize collectively against racism; Racialized people can practice a vernacular anti-race-ism refusing racist categories — Luke de Noronha, The conviviality of the overpoliced,…, 62; Antiracialism abandons the category of race while leaving racist conditions intact

Related

• Racialized people can practice a vernacular anti-race-ism refusing racist categories (similarity 0.85)
• Conviviality theory loses critical force when divorced from state racism and hierarchy. (similarity 0.82)
• Deportees’ multi-ethnic solidarity is an anti-racist resource of hope. (similarity 0.80)
• The shared condition of deportability forges affinity across racial and national lines in detention. (similarity 0.79)
• Refusing race can foster solidarity across differently racialised groups (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Racialized people can practice a vernacular anti-race-ism refusing racist categories #corroborates (0.90) — Luke de Noronha, The conviviality of the overpoliced,…, 62
• Antiracialism abandons the category of race while leaving racist conditions intact #qualifies (0.85)
• Migrant communities cannot be treated as discrete individuals but must mobilize collectively against racism #expands (0.75)