Distinct racist systems fuse by cross-codifying their targets.

Evidence

What is embedded in the senior Emanuel’s remark is the regenerative transfusion of two differently coded modes of racism: Ashkenazi Israeli racism toward Arabs (and, for that matter, Sephardic Jews) and white American racism toward blacks. In a simple act of crosscodification, the two modes of racism come together and announce not just a mere Israelification of American political culture but also the transformation of racist registers of Blacks into Arabs (or “sand niggers” as they have been popularly dubbed). — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 568

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The concept of ‘crosscodification’ — two racist modes recharging each other by swapping target groups — is a genuinely dense, reusable analytic frame, not just a factual point.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: what are other historical instances where two separate systems of bigotry cross-pollinate and amplify each other (e.g. anti-Semitism and anti-Black racism)? Does this ‘regenerative transfusion’ have measurable political effects?
• XREF: connects to: Racialization technologies are deployed on internal class others before foreign enemies; Racisms against different groups bleed into and combine with one another; Anti-communist control mechanisms are recycled to target each successive racialized or dissident group — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 557 (+2 more)

Related

• Racisms against distinct groups blend and combine without fixed borders. (similarity 0.88)
• Shifting racism’s targets exposes the social construction of race itself (similarity 0.81)
• American racism has recently recoded blacks and Jews into Arabs and Muslims (similarity 0.81)
• Racism persists while its targets shift from black to brown and Jew to Muslim (similarity 0.81)
• Racialization is a changing process where context shapes anti-racism too (similarity 0.79)
• Shifting racist targets from black to brown defetishizes Du Bois’s color line (similarity 0.78)
• Racism operates as a changing process rather than a fixed project (similarity 0.78)
• Capital constantly recodifies racist power relations, so oppression shifts targets (similarity 0.78)