Fear of Black political power was framed as alien invasion

Evidence

Fear of a black state is linked to worries about a black planet, of alien invasion and alienation, of a loss of the sort of local and global control and privilege long associated with whiteness. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1763

Categorization

• FICTION: The apocalyptic language—‘black planet,’ ‘alien invasion’—bridges racial anxiety and science-fiction invasion tropes; a story could literalize this metaphor with a colonizing alien race coded as racialized invasion.
• XREF: connects to: Blacks were uniquely cast among alien groups as loyal potential allies — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 538; Segregationist warnings framed growing black voting power as the threat — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 94