Everyday racism analysis clarifies how genocide becomes possible

Evidence

By paying close attention to the way that regulation and criminalization of African American reproduction, state complicity in the massacre of street children and youths, and the role of public health authorities in naturalizing the burden of infectious disease borne by members of racial or sexual minorities, are framed as genocide, we enter productive sites to rethink the relationship between everyday racism and genocide. Dismissing such situations out of hand deprives genocide specialists of important tools for understanding the way that everyday racisms can be used in analyzing the key tools used in creating a space in which genocide is possible and in dealing with the thorny issue of intent. By examining minutely the dynamic changes that racializing ideologies and practices exhibit, scholars can better assist in identifying explosive situations and in suggesting the sorts of interventions that might be useful in countering their cultural and material bases. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 292

Categorization

• QUESTION: The author gestures at specific cases (African American reproduction regulation, street children massacres, public health naturalization of disease burden) — worth chasing down the concrete evidence for these claims.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 292
• XREF: connects to: The genocide grew from decades of escalating hate-speech argumentation, not sudden eruption. — Erin K. Jenne and Promise Frank Ejiofor, Ethnopopulism and genocidal…, 51