Embracing heterogeneity counters the threat posed by race

Evidence

Racism’s more modernizing modes in the wake of abolition and nineteenth-century industrialization, by contrast, are increasingly associated with urbanization and metropolitan life. Modern cities have traditionally been places of migratory attraction and moral repulsion. They have offered the lure of employment and recreational excitement, consumptive novelties and cultural development, radical possibility and intense anonymity. It is this radical heterogeneity that has served more or less simultaneously as magnet and threat, as appealing, even transgressive of conserving inhibition, and repulsion. … The perceived threats to homogeneity, to the reproduction of sameness and identity, to the expected and the usual, to order and control, with which cities are associated historically prompted the institution of controls over urban space, restrictions on entry and movement, limits on access and acceptability. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 360 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Born again racism gone global thus becomes the attempt to reimpose racial sovereignty in the face of the emerging global challenges to clonializing power. The artifice of racial homogenization is the necessary condition for effecting objectification, othering, and enmity that together form the substance of racial sovereignty. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 708 (#complicates, via linked claim)

The development from Dutch to Afrikaner was motivated and mobilized substantially in reaction to the projected threats of mixture. Where the Dutch came to pride themselves as robustly individualistic, Afrikaners were nothing if not invested in a homogenizing collective; where the Dutch deemed themselves diplomatic, Afrikaners were dogmatic; where the Dutch were entrepreneurial, Afrikaners were dour, even paranoid; where the Dutch are famously marked by their particular brand of repressive tolerance, Afrikaners collectively came to be known for their intolerant repression. Or so the stereotypes suggest. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1383 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Anticipatory threat of mixture forged Afrikaner ethnic mobilization and racial theology. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1383; Ethnic identification amplifies white support for anti-immigrant policies under diversity threat cues — Brenda Major and Alison Blodorn and Gregory Major Blascovich, The threat of increasing diversity: Why…, 48; Urban heterogeneity transformed race into an internal threat requiring spatial controls — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 360 (+12 more)

Broader Connections

• Urban heterogeneity transformed race into an internal threat requiring spatial controls #complicates (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 360
• Racial homogenization is the necessary precondition for objectification and enmity #complicates (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 708
• Perceived racial-mixture threat restructured a group’s core character into defensive rigidity #complicates (0.77) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1383
• Racial mixing is framed as a realistic threat to group survival #complicates (0.75) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1048
• Dominant-race domination is sustained by threat invested in the subjugated #complicates (0.74) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1504
• Superficial diversity strategies conceal rather than resolve persistent representational racism #complicates (0.72)