Dominant-race domination is sustained by threat invested in the subjugated

Evidence

A sociality of the skin, thus, is one of threat. It is predicated on social relation in which the lives – the livelihood, the social conditions of life’s reproduction, the social positioning and self-determination – of the subjugated are threatened at every turn. But it is a sociality, in addition, in which the domination of the dominant is fueled by the threat they invest in the very existence and expression of the subjugated. The potential selfdetermination of the powerless and subjugated, the potentiality of which is always immediately if far from completely signified in a racial state by the invested significance in the skin, is taken as threatening to the continued domination of the powerful. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1504

Categorization

• XREF: Preemptive profiling of presumptive threat resonates with Fanon’s and Foucault’s work on threat and surveillance. — connects to: Domination consigns all who differ merely by virtue of difference to the enemy camp; When two human groups compete, the advantaged one maintains dominance through oppression — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 151; Dominant groups treat subjugated groups’ potential self-determination as a threat to their own domination. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1504 (+3 more)