Europe denies its racism by recasting racial exclusion as class cultural or religious problems

Evidence

The third movement, that interface of the formal and informal, suggests an undertone that is less appealing and less fulfilling. This marks the extended and untouchable exclusions, denigrations, and alienations at once racially presupposed, expressed, and reproduced: the relative lack of educational and employment opportunities, the residential segregations, the public media denigrations, the police profilings, the public handwringings, the informal insults that circulate so readily. Raceless racisms, everyday and every way. … Denied always precisely as racial problems, as racisms, turning them generically into a class or cultural, religious or immigrant problem, as though to be tainted by the charge of racisms, individually or as a society, is just too much to bear, beyond the pale. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 946

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s earlier work in ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’ on how moral panics get displaced onto class/identity/political frames, and to The Reluctant Fundamentalist’s theme of being denied as a racial identity. — connects to: Holocaust memorialization lets Europe deny its colonial racial past — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 826; European veil bans rest on cultural racism casting Islam as premodern — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 313
• DEFINE: Defines the book’s coinage ‘raceless racisms’ — racism functioning without being named as racism.