Hybridity anxiety reveals the underlying powerlessness of racial elites
Evidence
Hybridity thus assumed the conceptual expression of anxiety, of white peopleās paranoia, signaling the ultimate powerlessness of the powerful. Powerlessness precisely in that hybridity poses a challenge to the guardians of purity, power, and privilege, a challenge channeled through desire: the libidinal pull of sexual desire, the lure of forbidden fruit ā David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 18
Categorization
- DEFINE: Positions hybridity as a psychological concept expressing elite paranoia, not just a demographic fact.
- XREF: Parallels the āamalgamationist assumptionsā logic with fears of cultural pollution and miscegenation seen in colonialism generally; resonates with postcolonial theory of the colonizerās fear of the colonized.